1950 House of Representatives

1950 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 10981 There being no objection, the editorials records are well known here. He conducted BILLS TO BE INCLUDED IN THE CALL OF were ordered to be printed in ,,.~he REC in Russh in i947 under the auspices of the THE CALENDAR ORD, as fallows: Austrian Government, and in the absence of any statement by the immigration author Mr. SALTONSTALL. Mr. President, [From the New York Times of July 21, 1950) ities, it must be presumed that this is the in connection with the call of the cal THE CASE OF MR. KRIPS stumbling block to his admission. If this endar tomorrow may I ask the Senator Refusal of the authorities tQ. reveal why is so, the people who want to hear this mu from Arizona whether there has been they barred Josef Krips, conductor of the sician perform are entitled to have the ob~ printed in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD a Vienna State Opera, from entering the United jection specified, so that they may judge its list of bills which will be called, which States is the latest but not the worst in a validity for themselves. There is no excuse for someone to be granted· perinission to appear on the calendar prior to the point long series of incidents that have made cer- at which the call of the calendar was . tain aspects of our immigration procedure come here on one side of the ocean and be look little short of ridiculous. deprived of it on the other. When, as in ended on the last call? Josef Krips was scheduled to make his this case, the person involved is a man of Mr. McFARLAND. Yes; . such a list American debut leading the Chicago Sym eminence, the affair makes America appear was ordered printed in the RECORD earlier phony Orchestra Tuesday night, and to re downright ridiculous. Surely some explana today. turn to Austria within a few days. He re tion is due in the case of Mr. Krips, and Mr. SALTONSTALL. I thank the ceived his visa from the American consul possibly an apology as well. Senator. in Vienna without trouble; but on arrival THE WRECK OF A ST. LOUIS-BOUND RECESS here Sunday was detained without explana FRISCO TRAIN-ARTICLE FROM THE tion by the immigration authorities for WASHINGTON TIMES-HERALD Mr. McFARLAND. I move that the further investigation. Rather than wait at Senate stand in recess until noon tomor Ellis Island for the investigation to be com Mr. LANGER. Mr. President, yester row. pleted, with the possibility that he would be day we heard a great deal from the junior The motion was agreed to; and <at 8 deported without a hearing anyway, Mr. Senator from South Dakota about the o'clock and 26 minutes p. m.) the Senate Krips decided to return to Europe without Mundt-Nixon bill. He said that one of further a.do. The upshot of this case is that took a recess until tomorrow. Wednes no one-except perhaps the Immigration and the reasons we should immediately act day, July 26, 1950, at 12 o'clock meridian. Naturalization Service of the Justice Depart upon the bill was that there had been a ment--knows why he was barred from this train wreck, he first said, in Maine, but country, nothing has been proved for or when the distinguished Senator from against him, a blot is inferentially left on Missouri rose and reminded him it must HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES his record, and an American audience has :Pave been in Missouri,· then the Senator been deprived of becoming acquainted with from South Dakota changed the location TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1950 a gifted conductor. to Missouri. But time and again during There is no question but that the Attorney General and the Immigration and Naturali his speech he ref erred to the train wreck, The House met at 12 o'clock noon. zation Service are acting within the law. and suggested that, in bis opinion, sub The Chaplain, Rev. Bernard Bras The Attorney General has the power to deny versive elements caused the wreck. I kamp, D. D., offered the following admission to the United States of any alien have here the Washington Times-Herald prayer: whose presence he feels would be prejudicial of this morning, in which there is an to the interests of this country, and to deny O Thou whose resources of grace are article entitled "Boy Confesses Train inexhaustible and abundantly adequate, admission without a hearing. But there is a Wreck." The article is from Holland, very large question as to the wisdom of re we pray that we may be numbered fusing to hold such a hearing, except perhaps Mo., July 24, and reads in part as fol among the seekers and finders of God, in the most extreme emergency. What we lows: for we need Thee so greatly and des are doing is to say to aliens who seek access Pemiscot County authorities arrested a 15- perately in all the strange and various to our shores that our democracy functions year-old sharecropper's son today and said experiences of each new day. for everyone within our borders, but our he has admitted throwing a switch which democratic principles do not necessarily caused the wreck of a St. Louis-bound Frisco Thou hast given us victory in days apply to those knocking at the gates. lines train yesterday. gone by and we are committing and Rumor, hearsay, slander-these may be the commending ourselves to Thy care and bases on which an alien is excluded, and un That is the first paragraph of the keeping in the days to come. der our present practice he may not merely item, Mr. President. It all goes to show May we have the courage to believe have no chance to fight back but he may not that in a time of hysteria, anything that the kingdom of God, the kingdom even know the nature of the charges. This which may happen anywhere in the of brotherhood, will be established upon is an outrageously undemocratic procedure. United States, no matter how bad, may the earth, and may we be eager to hasten It demands revision. Surely, if they put their minds to it, Congress and the State and be blamed on some organization or some the coming of that blessed day of pre Justice Departments could work out a better person who is not at all guilty. To my diction when peace and good will shall and more democratic method of protecting mind what was said yesterday is a perfect prevail everywhere. the security of the United States against example of what happens in a time of Hear us in the name of the Prince of aliens suspected of subversion. hysteria. Peace. Amen. Mr. President, I ask unanimous con [From the New York Herald Tribune of The Journal of the proceedings of sent that the article may be printed in yesterday was read and approved. July 20, 1950] the body of the RECORD at this point. THE CASE OF MR. KRIPS There being no objection, the article MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT The departure from these shores of Joseph was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, A message in writing from the Presi Krips, conductor of the Vienna Opera, points as follows: dent of the United States was commu up anew the curious lack of liaison that ex BOY CONFESSES TRAIN WRECK ists between the State Department and the nicated to the House by Mr. Miller, one Justice Department when it comes to al HOLLAND, Mo., July 24.-Pemiscot County of his secretaries, who also informed the lowing foreigners into the United States. authorities arrested a 15-year-old share House that on July 22, 1950, the Presi Mr. Krips was invited here to conduct the cropper's son today and said he has admitted dent approved and signed a bill of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; he received a throwing a switch which caused the wreck House of the following title: visa from the American Embassy in Vienna. of a St. Louis-bound Frisco-lines train yes H. R. 3532. An act for the relief of Mrs. Yet when he arrived he was taken to Ellis terday. Sirvert Arsenian. Island and told he must either depart volun The train's engineer, Ira H. Woods, was tarily or else be detained pending an investi killed and the fireman seriously injured when SPECIAL ORDER GRANTED gation of certain unspecified information the locomotive struck the open switch. Mr. LANHAM asked and was given against him. Mr. Krips, who shortly will Thirteen passengers were slightly injured. permission to address the House for 20 begin to conduct at the Salzburg Festival in The boy reportedly told officers that he got . Austria, chose to leave. the idea of wrecking the train from a moving minutes on tomorrow, following the leg Mr. Krips obviously is no nazi. He evi picture he had seen. He said he stole a saw islative program and any special orders dently was one of the few conductors with and threw 1t in a :field after using it to saw heretofore entered. clean enough hands to be allowed to lead the lock on the switch Saturday afternoon. BRITISH OIL POLICY IN CHINA the Vienna Philharmonic immediately after The saw was recovered when the boy led the liberation; he has taken it on tour of investigators to the scene. Mr. MEYER. Mr. Speaker, I ask all western Europe; he has achieved wide He was taken to jail at Caruthersville unanimous consent to extend my re popularity in England; his phonograph pending the filing of formal charges.

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