37088 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS Novernber 2·2, 197.~

UNITED STATES-CANADA TRADE AUTOMOTIVE PRODUCTS, 1964, 1967- 73- UNITEO STATES IMPORTS- CANADIAN IMPORTS (Millions of U.S. dollars]

1964 1967 196& 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1 1964 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1

U.S. exports: 2 Subtotal.. ______71 1, 394 2, 266 3, 056 3, 118 3, 992 4, 573 5, 233 Cars _____ ---______• 34 544 748 732 631 985 1, 075 l, 437 Tires and tubes ______5 12 8 5 14 8 22 68 Trucks ______• ---- 23 122 175 244 263 334 504 643 Parts_ -- _------577 l, 216 l, 684 2, 134 2, 019 2, 448 2, 866 3, 484 Total imports ______76 1, 406 2, 274 3, 061 3, 132 4,000 4, 595 5, 301 Subtotal.. •••...... 634 1, 88~ 2, 6~~ 3, 110 2,913 3, 767 4, 445 5, 564 Net balance ...... +563 +483 +360 +83 -196 -197 -99 +355 Tires and tubes ______6 34 23 36 51 92 Memo entry: Total exports. _•• __ 640 1, 889 2, 634 3, 144 2, 936 3, 803 4, 496 5, 656 Snowmobiles included in truck exports U.S. imports: above •. ______. __ __ .... _...... ••. ___ . __ 12 22 33 30 Cars .------18 692 1, 114 1, 537 1, 474 1, 924 2, 065 2, 272 Snowmobiles included Trucks ..• ------4 228 369 560 564 587 713 789 in truck imports Parts .•• ______--• 49 474 783 959 1, 080 1, 481 1, 795 2, 172 above ______. 36 61 lll 141 124 104 66

1 Preliminary. · Note: Data exclude United States-Canadian trade in materials for use in the manufacture of 2 Canadian import data. Parts exports (Canadian imports) adjusted to exclude tooling charges in automotive par!s. Data are adjusted to reflect transaction values for vehicles. Can$1 = U.S.$0.925, millions of U.S. dollars as follows: 1966- $29; 1967- $44; 1968- $47; 1969- $75; 1970- $98; 1964--69; U.S.$0.958, 1970; U.S.$0.990, 1971 ; U.S.$1.009, 1972; U.S.$0.9997, 1973. 1971-$68;1972-$84.9; 1973-$56. Source: U.S. Department of Commerce. Mr. HARTKE. What I am trying to standing order, the Sena.tor from Mich­ cleared for action may also be called up point out is the Canadian automobile igan (Mr. GRIFFIN) will be recognized at any time. agreement was a bad agreement when by not to exceed. 15 minutes, and the Mr. GRIFFIN. Mr. President, will the put into effect, and now we are reaping Senator from Montana

EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS SENATOR JAMES B. ALLEN The people of Alabama have a right to Dirksen Building, a visitor gets a rare pic­ be proud of JIM ALLEN-and the Alabama ture postcard view of the Capitol dome and, voters showed that pride on November 5 in the distance, the Washington Monument. HON. HARRY F. BYRD, JR. when they reelected him to the U.S. Sen- What's rare isn't the view so much as the oF vmGINIA ate. Amazingly, he polled 95 percent of viewpoint. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES the vote, an incredible figure. Freshman U.S. senators, you see, even when Friday, November 22, 1974 The senior Senator from Virginia is they're Democrats, aren't generally assigned Mr. HARRY F. BYRD, JR. Mr. Presi- proud of his close friendship with the offices overlooking the city's · scenic sites. Senator from Alabama. Such choice views are the traditional pe1·­ dent, Vic Gold, the able columnist for I ask unanimous consent to have quisites of seniority among members of the the Washington Star-News, wrote a col- Senate Club. umn for the star-News yesterday on the printed in the Extensions of Remarks the Still, it doesn't seem unusual that the 59- senator from Alabama (Mr. ALLEN). column by Vic Gold published in the year-old Allen should occupy these quarters. Vic Gold's word portrait of Senator Washington Star-News on November 21. True he's only been a senator since January ALLEN is so fine and so accurate that I There being no objection, the article 1969, a temporal "fingersnap as the Club want to insert it in the RECORD. ·· .was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, measures seniority. But Jim.Allen, for several As the column points out, the Senator as follows: reasons, seems senior beyond his relatively from Alabama is, indeed, one of the hard- - . JAMES ALLEN, WATcHnoa brief Capitol hill tenure. est working Members of the Senate- (By Vic Gold) To begin, Allen is a parliamentary tactician and, in my judgment, one of the sound- From the window of Sen. James B. Allen's par excellence :whose ~skills on the senate est and ablest. · sixth floor office in the Everett McKinley floor remind one of the late Georgia Sen. November f2'2, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 37089 Richard B. Russell. To some extent, this is ism spanned four decades, and his work He covered the House for several legislative traceable to Allen's twice having been pre­ was honored by many a.wards and the sessions for the Register. siding officer of the Alabama State Senate, 1·espect that came from his colleagues WAR YEARS which. like the U.S. Senate, ls governed by In 1943, Gaw.mack received his first war the procedures set out in Jefferson's rules and his community. Perhaps his most notable stories were those written from assignment: He was not to cover the actual manual. battle news, but to write for Iowa~ .about But beyond that, there is Allen's basic ap­ the battlefields of three wars, as the Reg­ Iowans, much in the manner that his close proach to his job. In an age in which the ister and Tribune's foreign correspond­ friend, the late Ernie Pyle covered "GI Joe" Senate is stuffed to the marble with would· ent. on a national scale. be presidents and other media-oriented I send my deepest sympathies to his Gamma.ck was with them "up front" in poseurs, he is a legislative workhorse of a wife, Kaye, and to his family. We are North Africa, Italy, France and Germany. different color. saddened by his death, but grateful for He was with the forward elements of the Televiewers who saw the slow-drawling Al· American forces that liberated Paris, and len question witnesses last week during the the talent and insights he shared with during their final victorious sweep acr·oss Rules Committee hearings on the Rockefel­ us through the pages of the Register and Europe. ler nomination were, in fact, watching the Tribune. His colleagues ha.ve said it best, At tl1e end of World War II, Gamma.ck be­ man outside his natural work habitat. Tele­ and I ask unanimous consent that sev­ came a columnist for The Tribune and the vised hearings aren't really his style. eral articles and editorials from the Sunday Register. The column at first was Instead, the Alabama Democrat, reelected . Tribune be printed in the RECORD. called "Gamma.ck Says," then "See. Here!" to a second term by an overwhelming margin , There being no objection, the_articles This was later dropped for the logo bearing earlier this month, chooses to carry the major and editorials were ordered to be printed his name and· familiar bald-pated likeness part of his job load in, of all places, the Sen­ used during the remainder of his career. ate chamber itself. He has probably clocked in the RECORD, as follows: His columns ranged from single "people" more actual floor time in the hall of winds GORDON GAMMACK DIES AT 65-TRIBUNE paragraphs to one-subject articles of great during the past six years (listening and not WRITER FELLED BY CANCER variety. . reading drivel into the record) than. many Register and Tribune reporter, columuist He later covered Iowans in the Korean and of his colleagues do in three full terms. and war correspondent Gordon Gamma.ck Vietnam wars, winning national awards for Such work habits are contrary to t~e wis­ died of lung cancer at Iowa. Methodist Hos­ his reports. dom handed ·out dally by Capitol Hill tour pital about 12:30 p.m. Monday. He was 65. Gamma.ck believed in covering the human guides. Gallery visitors are routinely in­ His death ends a 41-year career marked elements of a war instead of the grand formed that the reason the Senate chamber by prodigious energy, enthusiasm and a jour­ strategy of the gener.als. He shunned most is all but vacant (which is most often the nalistic enterprise that scored a number of safe headquarters and preferred to go into case) is because members are carrying on brilliant news scoops. the field with the troops. important public business elsewhere. Subjects of his columns and stories ranged VIETNAM STINT Allen, however, has other thoughts on that over the entire field of newspaper coverage, subject. Thus, his staff members are often Iu Vietnam, for example, he was constant­ from routine police and sports assignments ly on the move. His feeling for the news led asked why their boss stays glued to his sen­ early in his career to his most distinguished ate chamber desk, even during periods of dull him into the major stories. He was one of achievement, covering three wars on four the first American corresponden~s to know of floor business. They reply by recalling that continents as The Register and Tribune's this time a year ago it was only because Al­ and to observe and write about the invasion foreign correspondent. of Laos by the South Vietnamese. len was present in the chamber that the The productivity and versatmty of his last Kennedy-Mondale effort to tack a campaign War was an emotional experience for him, year-during which, characteristically, he and he kept close track of soldiers he Inter­ public-financing amendment to the debt­ persevered after surgery to remove a malig­ celling extension blll was halted. viewed. Often, he wrote about their prob­ nant stomach ulcer-was typical of his entire lems in adjusting to civilian life after the In time, of course, given the makeup of career. He wrote of hip surgery being per­ the modern Senate, Kennedy, Mondale and war. formed in Des Moines, doctors involvement ln Survivors include his wife of 34 years, the majority that supported what Allen the sale of arugs, and scores of other sub­ termed "the politicians' subsidy bill" worked Kaye; two daughters, Katie, now Mrs. John jects, including a major series on downtown Barrier of Melbourne, Australia, and Julie, their will, Not, however, by means of a sleeper Des Moines. amendment slipped-without hearings and. at home; a son, Tom, of Boulder, Colo.; a full debate-through "the world's greatest FIRST EFFORT sister, Ellen, of Paclflc Grove, Calif., and a deliberative body." Gammack was born in Lenox, Mass., brother, Thomas, who lives in Florida. Indeed, Allen is a throwback who, along May 31, 1909. His father, the Rev. Arthur Services are pending. with a handful of other senators, seeks to James Gamma.ck was pastor of the Episcopal Church there and later was assigned to an maintain the Senate as just that: a delibera­ TRmUTE TO A COLLEAGUE tive rather than hyperpolltical body. Episcopal Church In Fitchburg, Mass., where But rest assured, regardless of what those Gordon grew up. He _attended Kent (Conn.) Gordon Gammack was the kind of reporter tour guides say, come dull session or duller, School and wrote for the Kent School News. editors don't often find. He was a reporter Alabama's not-so-junior senator can be He often recalled with a laugh his first whose conduct and achievements earn the counted on to be in the chamber beginning journalist effort when he was 16. [t included admiration of fellow reporters. He was a tire­ next January, as he has been during his the sentence: "Kent School now has six cows, less worker, always quick, accurate and fair­ freshman term-a conservative watchdog two of which are bulls." a master craftsman among Journalists. looking after the taxpayers' store in a liberal After attending Harvard University ("a Readers of his articles and columns in The neighborhood. And one ready to brace his dropped freshman") was Gammack's own Register and Tribune will remember Gam­ colleagues, whenever necessary, with the Jef~ wry summation of that experience, he worked ma.ck for his broad mnge of interests, from fersonian injunction ''that order, decency briefly for the Hartford (Conn.) Courant. seemingly trivial happenings to highly con­ and regularity be preserved in a dignified He came to Des Moines under less than troversial issues. In four decades he had public body." promising circumstances. watched and written about hangings, wars, His older brother, Tom, concerned about legislative debates and the changes along the getting Gamma.ck settled in a job during msin streets of Iowa towns. He had iut~r­ the depths of the depression, asked a friend viewed statesman and small-town merchants, of his own Harvard days, John Cowles, then film actresses and farmers' wives, war pris­ GORDON GAMMACK associate publisher of The Register and Trib· oners and draft resisters. une, 1f he would give Gordon "a chance" on If there was a common thread running the Des Moines papers. Gamma.ck, who had through Gammack's career, it was surely his HON. DICK CLARK lost the sight of his left eye In an automobile abiding concern for what happened to peo­ in OF IOWA accident during his Harvard days, became a ple. He often was their champion disputes Register reporter and, it soon became clear, with big government, big business and big IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES a good one. institutions of all sorts. His interest in peo­ Friday, November 22, 1974 ple was not an esoteric exercise that found "DAMN GOOD STORY" expression in philosophical essays on man­ Mr. CLARK. Mr. President, this week, Frank Eyerly, retired managing editor, kh1d's pilgrimage. Nor was he interested in a distinguished Iowa journalist, Gordon then telegraph editor, recalled one of Gam­ analyzing high-sounding policies and pro­ Gammack, died in Des Moines at the age mack's first feature assignments. Many posals that tried to capture visions of what "knights of the road" were evident in town maybe. of 65. His loss will be deeply felt by those during the Depression years as they were of us who knew him personally and by Beneath Gammack's prose a reader could elsewhere, Gammack let his beard grow, . find the stuff of life-laughter and tears, the thousands and thousands of people donned threadbare clothes and joined some innocence and wisdom, success and failure, who read his columns and articles in the of these "hoboes" at a "jungle" in the rail­ selfishness and generosity. The fullness of Des Moines Register and Tribune. road yards. The result, said Eyerly, was "a life was Gammack's interest and his pos­ Gordon's brilliant career in journal- damn good story." session to the end. 37090 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 2·2, 19_74

GAMMACK: COMPLETE NEWSMAN because there was not the usual space re­ quit, he thinks that all the fun in life will "Anyone who even intends to put (war) striction-a normal column ran about 750 evaporate if he does. At least as far as I am correspondents in the same class as fighting words. concerned, the opposite is true." ( Gamma.ck, men is treading on dangerous ground. The His syntax was not perfect and he had a two-pa.ck-plus cigarette smoker at one writers can, of course, make their own deci­ this thing about semicolons. But seldom was time, also quit that habit.) sions. Soldiers can't. a name misspelled. Seldom was he challenged Shortly after fighting broke out in Korea "When it gets too cold or rainy or muddy, on the accuracy of a quote. He habitually in 1950, Gamma.ck returned to war reporting, they can go elsewhere. Soldiers can't. They double-checked his facts. covering Iowans wherever he found them. like their jobs. Soldiers don't. They are brave Gamma.ck could become as enthusiastic -He left for Ko.rea Sept. 13, 1950--seven occasionally, while thousands of soldiers are about a humorous incident taking up one years to the day that he set off for World brave constantly.... " paragraph in his column as he could about war II. Gordon Gammack, who died of lung another reporting jaunt overseas or across "When the editors first talked to me about cancer in Iowa Methodist Hospital Monday the country. going," Gamma.ck once recalled, "I replied at the age of 65, wrote these words in 1944 His desk in the northwest corner of the that 25 per cent of me rebels, but the other while assigned to the 34th U.S. Division in newsroom was a port of call to many younger 75 per cent hankers to go. It's wanting to get Italy during World War II. reporters and editors, and he frequently in on the biggest story, and this ls it.'! All through the grim, bloody winter of passed on his latest anecdote. And he was Gamma.ck detested what he referred to as the Italian campaign, Gammack stuck with quiclt to praise the work of others. the "chicken Army"-the spit and polish, the 34th, writing about Iowa's fighting men, One could always tell when Gamma.ck was stuffed shirts, the military martinets he en­ sending personal messages home to their "thinking out" an important story, such as countered in the warmth and safety of rear kinfolk, and making friends with correspond­ reporting on the Vietnam draft evaders and areas. ents like the late Ernie Pyle. deserters from Canada, or writing about Writing from Korea in 1953 during an "up His association with Pyle was one of many Iowans in retirement, before he "turned to" front" stint with the First Marine Division, lasting friendships Gamma.ck made with war on the typewriter to the right of his desk. Gammack said: correspondents in World War II, Korea and He'd sit back 1n his old swivel chair, his "Up along the ridge lines that mark our . the Vietnam conflict: left arm draped over his bald head, his right MLR (main line of resistance), the "chick­ ·Wes Gallagher, now general manager of hand spinning his horned rim glasses and en" disappears and you find those lovable the Associated Press; Bob Eunson; the late stare at the opposite wall. . guys and the Golden Rule atmosphere that Pat Morin; Don Whitehead; Jack Folse; Bill One habit put Gamma.ck a rung up on marks the American Army in combat.... " Stoneman; Dick Tregaskis; the late Hal Boyle many of his contemporaries: He kept in Gamma.ck returned to Korea several times, and Peter Arnett, among others. touch with the Iowans he sweated out three and was on hand for the exchange of the first Whitehead, in a guest column written for wars with. sick and wounded prisoners of war. Gamma.ck in the Sunday Register, July 1, If they needed help, he saw to it that they Identities of the prisoners were "top sec- . 1951, told of his and Pyle's first recollection got it. ret," but Gammack's skill at "euchring" . ofGammack: In a column written 25 years later, Gam­ led to one of the outstanding journalistic "A gaunt creature turned up at a Fifth ma.ck recalled promoting contributions to a achievements of the war. Army press camp near Naples, his face fund for Sgt. Ralph Neppel, Carroll County Wilfred Burchett, a Communist cone­ bearded, his uniform unkempt. Pyle said, farm youth who lost both legs to an enemy spondent Gamma.ck cultivated, told Gam­ 'Who's that? Something out of (Bill) Maul­ tank blast on a German roadside. ma.ck there would be an Iowan in the first din's cartoon?' Whitehead said, 'It must Neppel worked his way back to his ma­ ambulance from the North. The soldier be Willie (referring to one of Mauldin's be­ chine gun, fought off the German attack and proved to be Cpl. Richard O. Morrison of draggled beloved "dogfaces") .' Pyle said 'Any­ won the Congressional Medal of Honor. Burlington. body that looks like that needs a bath and Some of his best writing was in nostalgic Gammack's exclusive interview with Mor­ a drink. Call him over.' columns about his parents, his boyhood, his rison at Freed.om Village was broadcast and ; "That was our first look at Gamma.ck, the brother, Tom, who died in the late 'SO's of telecast natlonally, bringing a waiting na­ guy who had come over to report the tri-· an embolism. Tom had become Gordon's legal tion the first words from a returned prisoner. umphs, heartbreaks and everyday doings of guardian after the death of their father, who During the prisoner release, Gammaclc the 34th Division," Whitehead wrote. "And was killed when he was thrown from a horse. again, characteristically, worked out a sys­ so we went on to Paris and through Mons In addition to writing, Gamma.ck also was tem of determining names of Iowans to be and Liege and Spa, through Aachen to the a news reporter on KRNT Radio and KRNT­ released. Roer River and the Rhine. Our path crossed TV (now KCCI-TV) and conducted a Sun­ H.e would talk to the POWs being re­ and recrossed and wherever things got hot, day night interview program for a time. turned,. find out who was in the next group, there was Gamma.ck.'' Gamma.ck joined the Register as a po­ then wire these names to The Register and Gallagher, who was with Gamma.ck in lice reporter and weekend sportswriter in Tribune, scooping other reporters and, in­ Germany, had similar recollections of the 1933. Although it took him a while to learn cidentally, greatly annoying Army officials. easterner (born in Lenox, Mass.) who was the geography of the midwest ( once in a Gammack's first trip to Vietnam was early forever grateful he came to the mlddle­ story he misplaced St. Paul in Wisconsin), in 1970. He was mainly concerned about how west: he worked his way up to more imortant as­ young Iowans felt fighting a war that was "As a correspondent, he left the 'big pic­ signments. becoming more unpopular on the homefront. ture' stories and ponderous think pieces to He covered the House for several legislative As usual, he spent little time around Army others while he concentrated on the trials sessions. or Air Force headquarters in Saigon or other and tribulations of the average man, at con­ George (Lefty) Mills, retired Register leg­ larger cities. siderable risks to himself.'' islative reporter, at that time covering the He packed up his shaving gear and a But covering wars was only one side of House for the Associated Press, recalls that change of clothes in a shoulder bag and went Gammack. Gamma.ck and Nelson Kl·aschel, a Democrat into the field, visiting line companies and He loved Iowa, and was always happy to from Harlan who was governor of Iowa from airfields and going into the jungle with the return to write about the unusual, the com­ 1937 to 1939, were good friends. troops. monplace, the new, the controversial. "One day Kraschel told Gordon he planned He described the war in human terms­ His column appeared. dally in The Trib· to commute the death sentence of a man a teen-aged marine from Fonda calmly recit­ une, usually in the left-hand column of convicted of murder. Gordon wrote the story. ing the dangers he fa.ced in "search and Page 1. Sometimes it consisted of short He had it exclusively." capt ure" m}ssions behind enemy lines; an glimpses into the daily life and problems The prisoner, however, started bragging Army medic from Perry who had to evacuate of Iowans; sometimes he profiled interesting about his "political pull" and Krashel was eight buddies, all dead, five "shot to pieces"; people. forced to change his mind. flying in a helicopter over the Cambodian Always he wrote for his readers-not for "Gammack covered the hanging. I think border wit h a pilot from Batavia to spot himself, not his editors, nor his companions it was one of seven he covered," Mills said. enemy base camps. in the newsroom. In 1937, Gamma.ck was sent to Hollywood He returned a second time early in 1971. Gamma.ck welcomed traveling throughout to write a series on moviemaking. He wrote Then he wanted to do in-depth pieces on Iowa to gather material for his Tribune col­ about stars and unknowns. For an inside drug usage, discipline problems, anti-war umn, or for his weekly piece in The Sunday view, he got parts as an extra. In one Harold feelings among the troops, to get a measure Register. He'd stop along the way to chat Lloyd film he played the part of a hobo hop­ of the will to fight such a costly war. with fl'iends-businessmen, newspapermen, ping freight trains. But, as usual, he was in on one of the war's housewives. And usually he came back with Thirteen years before his death, Gamma.ck biggest stories--the Vietnamese invasion of a bushel of future story ideas. quit drinking and five years later wrote a Laos. Gamma.ck called it "pure luck.'' His In later years, he wrote longer "Special column on that experience. editors called it "years of experience.'' Reports" fpr The Tribune on unusual or "The cockeyed reasoning of many a heavy There had been rumbles for days about controversial subjects. He liked doing these drinker is that while he realizes he should a possible invasion of Laos and a news em- November 22, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 37091 bargo was enforced. "Gammack," said the :released. This led to a detailed 10-part ARVID PAULSON: NOTED ACTOR editor, "is somewhere near the Laotian border series on Kjome's life as a POW. . AND MAN OF LETTERS ..• he can't stay away from a major story." It was written by Gamma.ck after inter­ Indeed, he couldn't. viewing Kjome for five full days. The news embargo was lifted, and in min­ The POWs had agreed not to tell their HON. GAYLORD NELSON utes Gammack's story about Iowans support­ stories publicly until the last POW came ing the Vietnamese invasion came clacking home. OF WISCONSIN into the newsroom via special wire. Hours But when tl'e final planeload lande~. Gam­ IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES later, photographs he had taken of machine­ mack's series on Kjome was already written, Friday, November 22, 1974 gun-toting Army scouts from Iowa were and publication began immediately-the first being transmitted by special Wirephoto from full story of a POW's life in the nation. It Mr. NELSON. Mr. President, Arvid Saigon to The Register and Tribune news­ was a vivid, detailed account, and it won Paulson, distinguished actor, author, and room. Gammack a National Hcr.11iner's Club nonpareil translator of the works of It was one of the great local reporting jobs award-an honor voted by his peers. August Strindberg as well as scores of of the war-an instant view of a major war Of Gammack's "old pro" performance in story from Iowans who were there. Vietnam, the AP's Peter Arnett, who won the other Scandinavian authors, is returning Later, it turned out that only five American Pulitzer Prize in 1966 for his coverage of to his native Sweden to live after almost newsmen were told of the invasion in ad­ the Vietnam War, rememberPd: "Before Gor­ 70 fruitful years in the United States. As vance. Gammack was one of them, and he don arrived in Vietnam for his first tour of a fellow Scandinavian, longtime friend was among the first five reporters to helicop­ duty, I got a call from Wes Gallagher that and admirer, I would not want Arvid ter in to now-famous Khe Sanh, the Ameri­ a buddy of his from World War II days Paulson to leave without paying public can base camp that supported the invasion. was heading our way, and to help him in tribute to his accomplishments on the Later, Gammack allowed that "I think they any way we could. I thought, "My God, what's stage and, above all, as the indefatigable picked me because they felt sorry for me a man his age doing out here?" because of my age (62) ." That was a mis­ Gamma.ck went at his assignment with the translator and tireless promoter of the statement. enthusiasm of "a cub :reporter," Arnett con­ Swedish genius Strindberg. They picked him because of his reputation tinued. "He took pleasure in the business of It is now becoming recognized that as an honest war correspondent who, like reporting, and he was very skillful at it, a Strindberg was probably the greatest Ernie Pyle, believed in writing about a war great trooper.'' dramatist the world has seen since by being with the little guys :fighting it. In a letter to Gammack congratulating Shakespeare. His contemporary, Henrik It was hard work. He told of sleeping on him on his series on Michael Kjome, Arnett Ibsen, who was much better known, con­ the ground in a tent at Khe Sanh with two wrote: U.S. pilots, one of whom remarked: "God, I "We in the AP are personally grateful for ceded that Strindberg's genius far ex­ hope we can get breakfast in the morning. your assistance ... at Clark Air Base when ceeded his own. And most of the great I don't want to die with an empty stomach." Kjome and the other American POWs were playWrights of the 20th century stand in Writing about wars had an emotional released .... the shadow of the Swedish master. impact on Gamma.ck. Visiting the wounded ''It was through your efforts that the coun­ Yet only a limited number of Strind­ in hospitals, hearing of the death of a boy try first learned of charges of serious brutal­ berg's immense output of plays novels, he had interviewed-it worked on him. He ity leveled against their Communist cap,tors short stories, and other works had been became close to people. by American POWs. You also provided us Hundreds of Iowans still remember when with a ste·ady stream of data on the men's available in English-until Arvid Paulson Gammack talked to them during the various medical condition that military authorities set out to fill that void. His translations­ conflicts he covered. Frequently, he revisited were reluctant to give. You were a thorn in "The Strindberg Reader," "Strindberg's the soldiers he met overseas when they came the side of authority in the greatest tradition One-Act Plays," "Natives of Hemso," home. He wrote about their problems of ad­ of the American press.... " ·~Days of Loneliness" and the Strindberg justment, their views of war, their wounds This professional drive and excellence were novels "The Scapegoat," "The Great · and recuperation. only part of the man, however. His boyish­ Highway"-came off the presses to find · He did not conceal his fear. He never ness and enthusiasm were characteristics, took chances. "You are .there to cover the too, of a devoted husband and father, a immediate critical acclaim. war; not fight it," he said. golfer, a bridge player, a backyard barbecue Declared Prof. Amandus Johnson, dean He kept running into old friends among chef and cordial host-and a good citizen. of Scandinavian scholars in the United the many war correspondents he knew. Once He never missed voting in an election-by States: in Saigon, he dined with Keyes Beech of the absentee ballot earlier this month after he By far the greatest translator of Scandi­ Chicago Daily News and George McArthur had returned home, knowing the cancer had navian literature that we have ever had. of the Los Angeles Times, both veterans at returned. He was proud that he never had covering wars. They suddenly realized that been ticketed for speeding or overtime park­ . Wrote Dr. Henry Goodard Leach, the they were the three oldest accredited corres­ ing: late president emeritus of the American­ pondents covering Vietnam-together they On the wall of one small room at the Gam­ Scandinavian Foundation: had more than 150 years of experience. mack home at 2800 Forest Drive his wife, Vietnam, they concluded, was a young America owes more to Arvld Paulson than Kathryn, and daughters, Katie and Julie, to any other man for the interpretation of man's war, but Beech and McArthur and have proudly hung citations and awards, the Gamma.ck covered more ground than many August Strindberg. His translations are the most recent the Headliner plaque. others in­ best in English, for he reads Strindberg's in­ of the young tigers assigned there. clude Sweepstakes Award certificates won in In 1973, he covered the return of the explicable mind and makes his translations Iowa Associated Press newswrtting contests better literature than the originals. American POW's in the Philippines. Again, in 1962 and 1971. his ingenuity got the story nobody else . Such accolades are typical of the edi­ could get, and led to an award-winning The 1962 award was for his moving account of the last days of Fred Maytag II, chairman torial and academic comment that fol­ series on the life of an Iowan as a POW of the board of the Maytag Co., whom can­ lowed what one critic called "Paulson's in the jungles of Vietnam for five years. cer felled. The POW's were segregated-newsmen astounding achievement in translating~ were not allowed within 200 yards of them, - Gammack's opening paragraphs in that not to mention producing and acting in-· and no interviews were permitted. The re­ story· apply tellingly today to the reporter 45 Strindberg dramas." Sean O'Casey, sult: A well orchestrated show of the re­ who wrote them 12 years ago. the great Irish dramatist, called it "a fine turn, but little on what they went through "Fred Maytag II was determined. to die with dignity. That's the way he had lived. :E:nglish-speaking memorial to the great or the state of their health. Swedish author." Gammack solved that problem neatly: He "When cancer attacked him, his quest for found physicians in the hospital with Iowa knowledge centered on the field of medicine-· · Yes, Mr. President, American drama : cancer rin particular.... " owes a considerable debt to this still­ connections and · used them as reporters. Gordon Gammack died, too, as he had They would talk with POW's, or listen to youthful man of 86 years who is taking lived, with dignity. his leave of our shores. As part of this them, ol;>serve them, examine them, and then Memorial services for Gamma.ck will be at report to Gammack. 11 a.m. Wednesday at St. Paul's Episcopal tribute to Arvid Paulson I am including [ His stories from Manila on the POW re­ Church here. The body will be cremated. an article on him as "The Scandinavian turn were the only ones telling the state While discussing calmly with members o! of the Month" from the Scandinavian­ of health and personal experiences of the his family the final arrangements, the sub­ American Bulletin and the speech by the POWs, and were distributed nationally by ject of where he wished memorial contribu­ Consul General of Sweden in New York the Associated Press.) tions to go came up. on the presentation of the gold medal of Gammac~ met Michael Kjome of Decorah, The American Cancer Society, he said. the Royal Swedish Academy to Mr. Paul­ a civilian teacher in Saigon when he was The old fight sparked up: son, the first time this medal had been captured by the Viet Cong, when KJome was "Let's lick this cancer thing," he said. awarded for translations of Swedish 37092 EXTENSIONS OF IrnMARKS November 22, 1974 literature. Mr. Paulson sails from New play, which was given again over WEAF, and closer together two worlds of thought and York Tuesday on the Kungsholm. Bon in 1932, over WOR, when he employed the ideas-that of the United States and that of voyage. I ask unanimous consent that largest cast ever used on radio, and a com­ Scandinavia. The fact that they today are plete symphony orchestra. During his career this article be printed in the RECORD. very close indeed ls due to the work of men he has appeared in no less than seven Ibsen like Arvid Paulson! There being no objection, the article roles. was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, In 1933, he appeared in "Pigeons and Peo­ as follows: ple," in which George M. Cohan had writ­ SPEECH MADE BY THE CONSUL GENERAL OF SWEDEN IN NEW YORK, !11IR. TORE TALLROTH, ARVID PAULSON : NOTED ACTOR AND MAN OF ten the part of Tokem especially for Paul­ LETTERS son. Two years before, Cohan had written ON THE OCCASION OF THE PRESENTATION OF the role of Saki with Paulson in mind in THE GOLD MEDAL OF THE ROYAL SWEDISH It has been said rather frequently, and ACADEMY TO MR. ARVID PAULSON with a great deal of justification that the his play "A Well-Known Woman," and in Scandinavian countries are fortunate in hav­ this performance "The Philadelphia Ledger" I am most grateful for your presence here ing so many cultural apostles active around gave Paulson unstinted praise. Du1·ing the tonight and happy that you have joined me the world. Aside from the more or less official next decade or so the theatre going public in paying tribute to our friend Arvid Paulson. speaders of the gospel of the excellence of saw him in such varied plays as "The Bat", I am acting on behalf of the Swedish Acad­ Scandinavian arts and letters, we have a "Madame President", "Electra", "Ghosts", emy of Letters which has awarded its very large number of individuals who, because of "When We Dead Awaken", "Macbeth", "The rare gold medal to Arvid Paulson for his out­ theh· national background, through study Ghost Train", "Mother Carey's Chickens", standing services to the field of Swedish or travel, or Just a plain sense of identifi~a­ and "Goin' Home". His last New York ap­ literature. tion, will go out and acquaint that sleeping pearance was in "The Innocent Voyage" in I know that Arvld Paulson wants this little giant, the Public, with the achievements of which he acted the role of a Swedish sea ceremony more to be a tribute to August which the Northern peoples are right ly captain, a role he spoke entirely In Swedish. Strindberg than to himself, August Strind­ proud. And Sweden is indeed fortunate in Arvid Paulson has also appeared In a num­ berg being his master whom he has served having such an apostle in the man who has ber of motion pictures ( during his early and worked for so selflessly and with such been selected as "The Scandinavian of the years on the stage) . During the Second devotion, sklll and literary mastery for many Month" for December. World War he was asked to play one of the years. Reading the last line some readers may ob­ leading roles in a classified motion picture August Strindberg ls not only, by the mag­ ject and say that it is only August Strindberg for the Army. And it was Paulson who coined nitude of his works the dominating force in who has an apostle in Arvid Paulson. that war poster slogan seen everywhere dur­ Swedish literary life, but his contributions Whe,ther that is presentation of a man whose ing the war years: "Loose lips might sink to the fields of drama, the novel, poetry, etc., entire life has been devoted to literature and ships." meant new ways and new heights. He the theater. In any case, it will be agreed Following a very serious accident, Mr. brought new life to every field which he that Arvid Paulson has done yeoman work Paulson has in the postwar period concen­ essayed, recreated the Swedish language, and for his native land; the list of his roles on trated on the translation of Scandinavian is the portal figure for modern Sweden, ~aw the stage and/or his translations is as long plays into English. And few men have been Sweden transformed from an agrarian as a yard-arm, and he has never tired in the better endowed nor had a more valuable society into an industrialized one, was a effort to make Swedish and other Scandina­ background for that particular task! Among sharp critic of faults and prejudices, but vian literature and drama better known in the Scandinavian authors it is Strindberg sought new roads for his ever restless genuis. ever-widening circles, circles which take in who is his first love, and it is perhaps a rare Abroad he is better known for his con­ the en tire English-speaking world. occurrence in literature for a great writer tributions to modern drama and the threatre, Arvid Paulson was born in the historical to owe so much to one single translator. and there his literary skill more easily and progressive city of Helsingborg, and For Paulson has not only been productive, c1·ossed the borders of a small country ancl came to the United States at the age of suc­ but has also turned out translations of the the stage and with the cultural milieu of the teen. In those days teenagers had to toe the highest quality, in regard to style and the world population. line, and the young immigrant began work suitability of the translations to be actually To interpret such a rich genius as August with the Swedish-American newspaper Svea performed on the stage. Among his Strind­ Strindberg and render him full Justice in an­ in Worcester, Mass., first as reporter and then berg translations, most of which have been other language, requires extraordinary tal­ as editor for a brief period. There he appeared performed on radio, television or on the ents on the part of the translator: talents in amateur theatricals, but as his ambition stage, are "The Father", "Miss Julie", "The and qualifications far above the usual re­ was for a professional stage career, he real­ Great Highway", "Lucky Per's Journey", quirements, a high degree of skill, literary ized this could only be attained by going to 'To Damascus", "The Ghost Sonata", and sensitivity and good taste, familiarity with New York. After appearing there in a number many others. His translations have been col­ the stage and with the cultural miieu of the of plays in Swedish, he was during that time lected in several volumes, many available in two countries. And devotion. seen by the distinguished actress Carlotta paperback. Arvid Paulson has also trans­ These gifts Arvid Paulson possesses, to­ Nlllson in Charles Rann Kennedy's "The Ser­ lated Letters of Strindberg to Harriet Bosse gether with his knowledge and experience of vant in the House." Through her he obtained as well as Strindberg's famous novel The the stage in America. Therefore, he has been a. small but important role in "The Beauty Natives of Hemso. able to bring us a new, a more modern, and Spot", in which he won acclaim from coast to But Paulson has not confined himself to more faithful Strindberg in translation Strindberg, nor to Sweden. He has translated which we hope will bring the great Swedish coast. plays by Bjornson, Ibsen, Alvilde Pryz, Gustaf In 1914 he joined the Washington Square dramatist close to new generations. Players, an organization which later. gi·ew af G Geijerstam, Hans Alin, Prince Wilhelm, It is particularly his new and excellent into the Theatre Guild. He appeared m the and others. He was also the founder and translations of Strindberg's works that the fiirst Andreyev play seen in America, "Love chairman of the Ibsen Memorial Committee Swedish Academy had in mind when the de­ of One's Neighbor," in the pantomime "The in New York, established at Ibsen's centenary cision to present Arvid Paulson with its Shepherd in the Distance," and in two Haupt­ and reorganized later for the purpose of hav­ gold medal was made. It is an award very mann plays: "Elga.'' and "The Weavers." His ing a bust or statue of Ibsen erected at seldom given, and among its recipients you Lincoln Center. Would that someone would find scholars, poets, and actors who have complete breakthrough as an actor, however, seize this idea and bring it to fruition! did not come until the spring of 1917 when enriched the Swedish literary heritage dur­ he received the plaudits of public and critics In recognition of his efforts in promoting ing· the years. Arvid Paulson can be said to alike for his performance in "The Wlllow the cultural relations between the U.S. and be a combination of all these categories. Tree " At this time he was also producing his native land, Arvid Paulson has been August Strindberg had himself very un­ and dh·ecting a number of Ibsen and Strind­ decorated by the King of Sweden; he was also happy relations with the Academy. That he berg dramas, among them, "An Enemy ~f the the first to be awarded a gold medal by the was never elected a member was a disgrace; People", "In the Face of the Simoon and Swedish Academy for translating Swedish that he was never awarded the Nobel Prize "The stronger." When the U.S. declared war literature into a foreign language. Among for Literature was a scandal. In a way, it ls a on Germany in April 1917, Arvid Paulson was other honors to come to him are the Merit belated tribute to August Strindberg as well, the first actor to volunteer and as a sergeant Award of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and when this award is now given to Arvid 1n the corps of Intelligence, he performed an invitation to appear in readings of his Paulson. valuable services in France and Germany. translations at the Library of Congress. Dur­ The Swedish Academy has asked me to He returned to the stage, and also not long ing a visit to Sweden last summer he was present its gold medal to Arvid Paulson and after presented dran1as in a. new medium: elected an honory member of Gillet Gamla has also asked me to convey to him its deep radio. on WGBS, he gave two Scandinavian Helsingborg, a distinguished social and cul­ appreciation of his outstanding work and plays "Eyes that Cannot See", by the Danish tural society in his native city. his efforts to make Strindberg better known auth~r Albert Gnudtzmann, and Ibsen's "Peer Still going strong at what others may in the Anglo-Saxon world-with a hope for Gynt", the latter in its world radio premiere. consider a feverish pace, Arvld Paulson con­ new contributions from him in the field of Paulson not only wrote the radio version, tinues to provide translations unrivaled ln literary interpretations which are works ot but acted the role of Peer, and directed the their excellence and thus helps to brh1g art in their own 1·ight.