8500 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - May 14 America to the fourth special session of the MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE properly constituted local Board of General Assembly of the United Nations. Charles W. Yost, of New York, to be a rep­ A message from the Senate by Mr. Education. resentative of the United States of America McGown, one of its clerks, announced On April 13, a majority of the Board to the fourth special session of the General that the Senate had passed a bill of the of Education voted against repeal of the Assembly of the United Nations. following title, in which the concurrence existing restrictions on corporal punish­ Jonathan B. Bingham, of New York, to be of the House is requested: ment. The Board has the authority to a representative of the United States of' reverse this decision even if we do not America to the fourth special session of the S. 1227. An act authorizing the Association of Universalist Women (a nonprofit corpora­ legislate on the subject. General Assembly of the United Nations. If there is a need for repeal of this Sidney R. Yates, of Illinois, to be a repre­ tion in the District of Columbia) to consoli­ sentative of the United States of America to date with the Alliance of Unitarian Women restriction a well-documented factual the fourth special session of the General As­ (a nonprofit corporation in the State of presentation should be made to the sembly of the United Nations. Massachusetts). Board of Education and the District of The message also announced that the Columbia school system should be •• ...... •• Senate agrees to the report of the Com­ governed by their determination on the mittee of Conference on the disagreeing issue. Any other course of action is ex­ HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES votes of the two on the amend­ tremely prejudicial to sound adminis­ ment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. trative procedure and the orderly gov­ TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1963 2440) entitled "An act to authorize ap­ erning of the District of Columbia. The House met at 12 o'clock noon. propriations during fiscal year 1964 for The Chaplain, Rev. Bernard Braskamp, procurement, research, development, SUGGESTED PLAN TO REVISE THE D.D., offered the following prayer: test, and evaluation of aircraft, mis­ ACCOUNTING SYSTEM ON THE siles, and naval vessels for the Armed DEBT Matthew 5: 9: Blessed are the peace­ Forces, and for other purPoses." makers for they shall be called the chil- Mr. BASS. Mr. Speaker, I ask unan­ dren of God. , imous consent to address the House for O Thou who art the guiding intelli­ PRINTING AS A HOUSE DOCUMENT 1 minute and to revise and extend my gence in the life of men and of nations, remarks. Thou knowest how greatly our President, THE CONSTITUTION OF THE The SPEAKER. Is there objection our Speaker, and our chosen Represent­ UNITED STATES to the request of the gentleman from atives need divine guidance in these days Mr. HAYS. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani­ Tennessee? of national crises. mous consent to take from the Speaker's There was no objection. Wilt Thou restrain our people from table the concurrent resolution

his duties. He was truly a dedicated pub-: i ,# b 1 d mockery of reports and allow incorr~ct lie servant and we will find him hard to nate and untimely pass ng <>'~our e ove . enes to stand without challenge; what replace. · · · · staff member, Mr. Sam Spal. hope is there tQ m~~ntain ~~~prestige of I was shocked and distressed to learn The SPEAKER ·pro tempore (Mr. this body? I respectfully su?gest th~t THORNBERRY}.- Without objection, it is we refuse this travel request with a posi- of Sam's sudden d_eath a~d want .}a e.x­ tend my heartfelt condolences to his \Vif e so ordered~ · tive statement that until a correct re- and two wonderful children, Dianne and There was no objection. port is filed by the chairman of this Richard, in their hour of sorrow. I feel Mr. SMITH of California. Mr. Spea~- committee, no travel will be authorized that I have lost a friend, but I know they er, I yield to the gentleman from Ohio outside of the country. To do other- have lost a devoted husband and fath~r. [Mr. ASHBROOK]. wise, would be to condone further non- Mr. ALGER. Mr. Speaker, will the Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speak~r, I rise compliance with the law, the very laws gentleman yield? in opposition to House Resolution 34~. which, 1 might add, we pass and in so Mr. HARRIS. I yield to the gentle­ The purpose of this trip may be meri- doing we to assume a double standard man from Texas. torious. Possibly, we will all gain from whereby we tell 188 million Americans Mr. ALGER. Mr. Speaker, I want to having representation at the Interna-. to observe our legislative directives and thank the gentleman for yielding and tional Labor Organization Conference. then we say on the other hand to our­ join with him in the statement he is ! feel, however, that this is not the. point. selves, "These laws do not apply to making. I recall when I had the happy The chairman of our committee has not ourselves." privilege of being a member of the Com­ and will not file a correct statement of Mr. SNYDER. Mr. Speaker, will the mittee on Interstate and Foreign Com­ counterpart funds already expended by gentleman yield? merce, I was privileged to be helped the committee on Education and Labor Mr. ASHBROOK. I yield to the many times by Sam Spal. Since that in 1962. For us to pass this resolution. to gentleman. time he along with other members of the my way of thinking, simply condones Mr. SNYDER. You say an incorrect staff of that committee, and the gentle­ this noncompliance with the statutory report was filed by the chairman of t~ man who brought us this sad news, has law which is in .title 22, section XX. committee previously. Could you give continued to extend that type of help to 17·54 and makes the illogical assumption us some instance of irregularities in that this Representative from Texas. I will that the law will be observed in this case. report, sir? miss Sam and I join with the chairman You will note at the end of page 2, lines Mr. ASHBROOK. I could give the, in condolences to his family. 20 to 25 and in the first four lines on gentleman from Kentucky many, many Mr. Speaker, in my book Sam Spal was page 3, that the chairman is required~ irregularities. Unfortunately, I do not a scholar and a gentleman in every sense make a report. I point out however, if have the time. I will give one example, of the word. reports have not been filed in complian~e however, in response to the gentleman's Mr. POFF: Mr. Speaker, because the with the law in the past, what reason is inquiry. The gentleman is a membe_r of there for us to believe that suddenly we this committee and I feel he has a right railroad industry is one of the major will get accurate and correct reports? to know. segments of the economy of the district I am privileged to represent, I have fre­ We see time and time again, Mr. on page 3968 of the CONGRESSIONAL quently had occasion to consult with Sam Speaker, the fruits of allowing. prac- RECORD for example, Mrs. Louise Maxi­ Spal. Because he was a master of the tices like this to prevail. In a nationally enne Dargans is shown as going to six complexities and technicalities of the circulated publication, Look magazine, countries. This report, filed pursuant Railroad Retirement Act and other for example, which is read by millions of to law does not show any transports.- · statutes which affect the welfare of the Americans one of our esteemed fellow tion despite the fact that title 22, section railroad industry, only seldom did Mr. Members ,;.as held up to public contempt 1754 positively requires this. I have in Spal have to examine the books to get an and portrayed as a big spender because my hand a statement of the Assistant answer to a question he was asked. In he filed his reports correctly. The writer Secretary of state saying that her travel the death of this dedicated public serv­ of this article bas~Q bis reports on the was authorized by our chairman and ant the Nation has sustained a loss of figures presented to the Committee on counterpart funds expended. The exp~rtise which will be difficult if not House Administration and published in American Export Lines informs me that impossible to recoup. the CoNGRESSIONAL RECORD. The gentle- she occupied stateroom 212 on the SS Mr. KILGORE. Mr. Speaker, the man from Louisiana [Mr. PASSMAN] was Independence which sailed on a Medi­ death of Sam. G. Spal has affected me held out as having spent far more than terranean cruise last November 24. It · deeply. the gentleman from New York [Mr. · cost $1,435.50 less $478.50 advanced in Although I am no longer a member of POWELL] when, in fact, the gentleman cash to cover her husband's fare. Yet, the Committee on Interstate and Foreign from Louisiana [Mr. PASSMAN] had filed that report failed to show this expense. Commerce, my memory of my-s·ervice on his reports honestly and correctly a~d The so-called study trip by the gentle­ that committee is still fresh and warm the other gentleman h3:d no~ fil~d his man from New York, Representative and strong. Sam Spal is an-important reports correctly.. In their articl,e, it was PowELL, to inspect t~e common M~rket part of that memory. asserted that Chairman PowELL s $1,544 situation is similar. Although he and tab was also puny compa:r~d to that of his two secretaries, Miss Corrine Huff He had a vast store of wisdom and ex­ the gentleman from Lomsiana [Repre- and Mrs. Tamara Wall, sailed on the perience in his chosen field. I never sentative OTTO PASSMAN], Democrat, who Queen Mary with tickets purchased by knew him to thrust his wealth of ideas made a trip around the world and an- counterpart funds, here too the law was upcn any Member. Yet, he was always other to Europe at a cost ~f $4,558. I not complied with and no report was on hand, always ready to go_ to work, pointed out to Look that this report was made. other irregularities have been when his special background was needed. inaccurate. The response. of Look _mag- demonstrated. Yet, the chairman re­ He was a constant source of responsible azine when I brought this to their at- fuses to submit a report which will meet information and firm judgment. Men tention was, in . my_ ~pinion, ..~ery the requirements of the law. of his competence are rare. To me, he plausible. They said this, m effect. See . I suggest we do not condone further embodied the true spirit of the ideal com- here, the report filed on March 11, 1963, reports of this type until we have a cor­ mittee staff member. · pursuant to law, on page 3967 of the rect filing by our committees. We It is difficult to honor Sam Spal be­ CONGRESSIONAL RECORD indicates that the should turn thumbs down on this travel cause-through his years of selfiess serv­ amount we reported in our article is th,e request. ice-he has brought so much honor upon amount that was expended. If we cant Mr. SNYDER. The gentleman has himself~ believe the reports that are made pur- referred to $1,40-0. Does that appear in I miss him now. I will continue to suant to law and published in your offi- any report? miss him. cial journal, what can we believe? If the Mr. ASHBROOK. It does not appear GENERAL LEAVE TO EXTEND House does not check these matters and in any report. Mr. HARRIS. Mr. Speaker, I also ask passes them off as correct, do not criticize Mr. SMITH of Californ~a. Mr: Speak- unanimous consent that all Members us for not digging below the surface." er, will the gentleman yiel~? may have 5 legislative d·ays in which to . I say, Mr. Speaker, that this is exactly Mr. ASHBRQOK: . I .Yield to the extend their remarks on the unfortu- the point. If we are going to make a gentleman from Califorma. OIX-537 8518 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-· HOUSE May 14 Mr. SMITH of California. I think the procedures, and to make sure lhere is mean where it says "notwithstanding the gentleman is confused on this particular nothing unethical done in the way of provisions" and so forth "the Committee resolution. I do not think that has any­ expenditure of either appropriated funds on Education and Labor is hereby au­ thing to do with this matter. Let me or counterpart ftinds, passed House Res­ thorized to send two of its majority give it to the gentleman once again. The olution 103. Today, all we are doing is members and two of its minority mem­ Members are appointed by the Speaker giving these people an opportunity to bers" and so forth. What does that of the House to go to the International use counterpart funds to the extent that language mean? I would just like to Labor Organization meeting. It does not counterpart funds are available for this get that clarified. I understand the make any difference whether we pass this travel rather than appropriated funds gentleman prepared it. resolution or not so far as those going is by the State Department. It is that Mr. SISK. Mr. Speaker, are we pro­ concerned. The Speaker has appointed simple. ceeding under the reservation by the two of the Members. The State Depart­ So, in voting against this resolution, gentleman from Florida, or who has the ment will send them over and will pay with some idea in mind that you are time? for them. We are authorizing these four going to keep the gentleman from New The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Members to use counterpart funds. We York [Mr. POWELL] and the gentleman gentleman from Florida reserved the are getting off on a subject that is not from Ohio [Mr. AYRES] from going to right to object to the gentleman's unan­ relevant, and even if we look forward and the ILO meeting is a futile gesture, Mr. imous-consent request. say, "Let us defeat the resolution," it is Speaker, because they are going anyway Mr. HALEY. And I yielded to the not going to keep the gentlemen from as the designated delegates to the ILO. gentleman from Mississippi. making that trip. They can go as soon Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Mr. Speak­ Mr. SISK. Would the gentleman as the Speaker appoints them. Further er, will the gentleman yield? from Florida yield to me to comment than that, I have been advised that the Mr. SiSK. I yield to the gentleman on the statement made by the gentleman gentleman from Ohio [Mr. AYRES], who from New Jersey. from Mississippi? , represents one of the largest labor dis­ Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. I should tricts in the United States, has agreed to like to refer to the language ·on page 2 Mr. HALEY. I will be very happy to. go as one of the representatives to this regarding employees of the Committee Mr. SISK. Mr. Speaker, the expla­ particular Conference. I want this body on Education and Labor. The gentle­ nation is, as I think the gentleman from to know that. man from California earlier in the dis­ California [Mr. SMITH] and I have both Mr. ASHBROOK. I am glad the cussion said there was no intention to reiterated, to make possible the use of gentleman from Ohio [Mr. AYRES] can authorize any staff employee of the counterpart funds for this travel, to the go, but may I say further I believe as a committee to travel to Europe under this extent that counterpart funds are avail­ matter of principle we should not coun­ resolution. able, which otherwise, of course, could tenance further travel from this com­ May I ask the gentleman: If that is not be used under H.R. 103, which this mittee until we get correct reports ft.led the case, can we get unanimous consent Congress passed. by the officers required under the law to to strike all references to employees? I Now, I want to be fair about this and file them. The gentleman says this is not refer to lines 8, 14, 18, and 20. If we do indicate one other point in addition. a similar situation. I suggest it is exactly not intend to have this resolution apply Under the normal procedures which the opposite of what he says. The chair­ to anyone but Members who are author­ would occur if we pass the resolution, one man must report on counterpart funds ized to make this trip, I think we should member of the majority and one mem­ that have been expended, and if they not have any reference to employees. ber of the minority could go. Here we have not been reported correctly in the This language would imply, perhaps, that are providing for alternates to attend, past why should we believe that the the Members automatically are author­ due to the fact that this meeting might requirement contained in House Resolu­ ized to have a retinue of some kind to last for a month and, frankly, a good tion 340 will be honored? I suggest it take with them. many Members of Congress feel that that will not and I again state that the situ­ Mr. SISK. I might say in answer to is entirely too long to be away from ation is exactly identical. Washington and from their constituency. the question of the gentleman from New Therefore, this would provide the use of Mr. SMITH of California. That is Jersey that so far as the intent of the what we tried to do. The resolution was counterpart funds and, in addition, Committee on Rules was concerned, we make possible the travel of alternates changed by the Rules Committee early were authorizing these four Members of this year to give us appropriate reports to attend a portion of this meeting. And, Congress only to travel and to use these of course, as has been indicated, there on these particular funds. Then, of counterpart funds, and it was not the in­ course, the bill which passed the other is the further travel of the gentleman tent of our committee to permit the from California [Mr. ROOSEVELT] to the day under the direction of the chairman travel of any employee, staff people or of the Committee on House Adminis­ countries indicated. tration was a further effort to correct the otherwise. Mr. HALEY. Will the gentleman ex­ situation. And, I would ask, Mr. Speaker, if it plain this? In your first section of your Mr. ASHBROOK. I encourage the is in order, unanimous consent that resolution I see nothing in there that au­ Members of the House to oppose this wherever reference to "employees" is thorizes any other Members. What is bill. Let us stand on principle and say found on page 2 of House Resolution 340, the intent? It merely says "that not­ "No more travel until correct reports are that that reference be deleted. I ask withstanding the provisions of House filed." unanimous consent that that be done. Resolution 103, 88th Congress, the Com­ Mr. SISK. Mr. Speaker, I yield my­ The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there mittee on Labor" and so forth. There is self such time as I might consume. objection to the request of the gentleman no statement made there about any em­ Mr. Speaker, I would like to reiterate from California? ployees or anything. Yet your resolu­ and reemphasize the statement made by Mr. HALEY. Mr. Speaker, I reserve tion further on apparently authorizes my good friend and colleague, the gen­ the right to object. travel by employees. tleman from California [Mr. SMITH], Mr. COLMER. Mr. Speaker, will the Mr. SISK. I might say to the gentle­ with reference to attendance at the ILO gentleman yield? man that traditionally the Committee meeting by the gentleman from Ohio Mr. HALEY. I yield to the gentleman on Rules in preparing resolutions for [Mr. AYRES] and the gentleman from from Mississippi. travel-and this is true not only for the New York [Mr. POWELL]. It does not Mr. COLMER. I am not sure I under­ 88th Congress, but for previous Con­ make a particle of difference whether stand what the parliamentary situation gresses-over a period of years has added this resolution is passed or not, these two is at the moment. Statements have the language found on page 2 of this gentlemen are going because they have been made here by both gentlemen from resolution. This is standard language been officially designated by the Speaker California that these appointments were having to do with controlling the ex­ of the House as delegates. It is a matter to be made by the Speaker or had been penses of staff people and employees if of whether the State Department will made by the Speaker, and therefore that they were traveling. But, of course, I pay their fares from appropriated funds. there was no necessity for this resolu­ think the Committee on Rules made it The Committee on Rules-; in line with tion; in effect, it did not make any dif­ very clear that in this instance we are what we did in January in an effort to ference. If that be true, then what does authorizing two members of the majority tighten up and require better reporting the first paragraph of the resolUtion and two members of the minority only to 1963 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 8519 make this trip and that there cannot The SPEAKER pro tempore. Regular Mr. GROSS. If the open-handed under this authority be counterpart order has been demanded. State Department can engage in this funds or other funds made available for Mr. MEADER. There is a unani­ · kind of :financing it will not make much employees. mous-consent request pending to which difference if we take' the employees out of The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there I have reserved the right to object. this bill; they could send them over objection to the request of the gentle­ The SPEAKER pro tempore. The anyway, is that true? man from California? regular·order has been demanded. The Mr. SISK. I very seriously doubt, Mr. HALEY. Mr. Speaker, further gentleman can object if the gentleman based on information given to me on reserving the right to object-- wants to object. this subject that there will be anyone Mr. COLMER. Mr. Speaker, will the Mr. SNYDER. Mr. Speaker, a par­ sent other than the official delegates. . I gentleman yield to me at that point liamentary inquiry. asked the question about alternates and for a further question? Has the gentleman from California I w·as told no, that they could not under Mr. HALEY. I yield to the gentle­ withdrawn his unanimous-consent re­ their .authority send alternates. They man from Mississippi. quest? are only permitted the travel of one of­ Mr. COLMER. My point is why this Mr. SISK. Yes; I might say, Mr. ficial delegate from the majority and one first paragraph of the resolution, if they Speaker, I withdrew my unanimous-con­ official delegate from the minority. are authorized already to go by the sent request. So I do not anticipate and I do not Speaker? Your resolution .says "that The SPEAKER pro tempore. The re­ believe they anticipate that any em­ notwithstanding the provisions of House quest has been withdrawn. ployees would travel under this program. Resolution 103 the Committee on Edu­ Mr. SMITH of California. Mr. Mr. MEADER. Mr. Speaker, will the cation and Labor is hereby authorized Speaker, I yield myself 30 seconds. gentleman yield to me? to send two of its majority members and Mr. Speaker, I do not want to mislead Mr. GROSS. I yield to the gentleman. two of its minority members"-and so anybody. I should have gone further in Mr. MEADER. If we take the word forth-to attend this organization meet­ my statement, as to paragraph 2, so far "employee'' out of page 2 we simply re­ ing. My point is why that language in as it applies to the gentleman from Cali­ move the ceiling on the per diem and the resolution if you already have the fornia [Mr. ROOSEVELT]. He could not the requirement that they report, be­ authority? take the additional trips unless this res­ cause the State Department can make Mr. SISK. If the gentleman from olution is passed. I would not want these employees members of the delega­ Florida [M;r. HALEY] will yield further, anybody to think that I had made a mis­ tion and pay them out of counterpart in order that I may comment on the take in that regard. I wanted to clarify funds or any way they want to. If we question put by the gentleman from my statement. take "employees" out of the resolution Mississippi [Mr. COLMER], I state again Mr. HALLECK. Mr. Speaker, will the there will be no limitation. that the ILO is an international organi­ gentleman yield to me for a parlia­ Mr. SNYDER. Mr. Speaker, will the zation of which the United States of mentary inquiry? gentleman yield? America is a member. Traditionally au­ Mr. SMITH of California. I yield to Mr. GROSS. I yield to the gentleman. thority has been given for representa­ the gentleman from Indiana. Mr. SNYDER. As I understand, if we tives from the House of Representatives, The SPEAKER pro tempore. The fail to pass this resolution we will not representatives from the other body and gentleman will state his parliamentary be sanctioning two additional Members representatives from the Department of nor will we be sanctioning the addi­ inquiry. tional trip of the gentleman from Cali­ Labor and other departments, to attend Mr. HALLECK. As I understand, the as official delegates the ILO meeting. fornia to Greece, Israel, Rome, Paris, This is still in existence and all of the gentleman from California [Mr. SISK] and London for purposes that we cannot authority is still there. Of course these has presented this resolution. Would it determine today-something about na­ be in order for him to offer an amend­ tional strikes. people will travel to the ILO. ment to the resolution in line with the House Resolution 103 which, of course, unanimous-consent request that he pre­ Mr. GROSS. I think the gentleman I am sure my colleague, the gentleman has something there. If we pass this from Mississippi, is thoroughly familiar viously presented and then withdrew? resolution we are putting our stamp of with as a member of the Committee on The SPEAKER pro tempore. Inas­ approval on it. If the State Depart­ Rules, prohibits the Committee on Edu­ much as the gentleman has the floor he ment wants to send them over there and may offer such amendment as he sees cation and Labor from travelin~ and pro­ use their booze fund or some other fund hibits them from the use of counterpart fit to the resolution. to take care of them, it appears it can funds except by special resolution. That Mr. GROSS. Mr. Speaker, will the do so. is the reason this resolution is here to­ gentleman from California yield to me? Mr. SNYDER. I concur in what the day, because our committee in its good Mr. SMITH of California. I yield to gentleman has said. judgment in my opinion saw fit to bring the gentleman from Iowa such time as Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Mr. Speak­ to the House a resolution permitting the he may require. er, will the gentleman from California use of counterpart funds in this instance, Mr. GROSS. Do I understand that yield to me for a parliamentary inquiry? if counterpart funds are available. That if the House rejects this resolution that Mr. SMITH of California. I yield. is the reason why the resolution is neces­ the delegation will go anyway? Was Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Mr. Speak­ sary, for that purpose and that purpose that the statement of the gentleman er, I should like to ask if it would be in only. from California [Mr. S1sxJ-that they order to offer an amendment to strike all The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there will go anyway and be paid out of State references to employees on page 2 of this objection to the request of the gentleman Department funds? resolution. from California? Mr. SISK. It is my understanding­ The SPEAKER pro tempore. If the Mr. MEADER. Mr. Speaker, reserv­ and I checked this this morning with the gentleman from California will yield for ing the right to object-- Assistant Secretary of Labor for Inter­ that purpose. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The national Affairs-that the situation is Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Will the Chair would like to advise the gentleman this. They have complete authority and gentleman from California yield for that from California that his time is about to this has been handled this way in years purpose? expire. gone by. The State Department out of Mr. THOMPSON of New Jersey. Mr. its funds has already authorized, and Mr. SISK. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the Speaker, I demand the regular order. the regulations provide, that the official gentleman for that purpose. Mr. SISK. Mr. Speaker, I withdraw delegation will be the gentleman from Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Mr. Speak­ my unanimous-consent request. New York [Mr. POWELL], and, I under­ er, I offer an amendment to strike the Mr. MEADER. Mr. Speaker, I reserve stand, the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. words "or employee"-- the right to object. AYREsL They will attend this meeting, Mr. HALEY. Mr. Speaker, a point of The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there and have their transportation and per order. objection to the request of the gentleman diem paid by the State Department. All The SPEAKER pro tempore. The from California? we are pleading for is the right to use gentleman will state it. Mr. MEADER. I reserve the right to counterpart funds, plus the travel of al­ Mr. HALEY. Is this resolution open object. ternates. to amendments? 8520 CONGRESSIONAL RECORO - HOUSE May 14 The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen­ Ashmore Haley Passman Mr. Boland for, with Mr: Waggonner tleman from California yielded to the Auchincloss Hall Pelly against. Avery Ha~na Pillion Mr. Garmatz for, with Mr. Pilcher against. gentleman from New Jersey for the pur­ Baker Harrison Poff pose of offering an amendment and the Baring Harsha Pool Mr. Roosevelt for, with Mr. Forrester Barry Harvey, Ind. Quie against. . gentleman from New Jersey is recognized Bates Harvey, Mich. Quillen Mr. St. Onge for, with Mr. Ellsworth for that purpose. Battin Hebert Reid, Ill. against. T:1e Clerk will report the amendment. Becker Hechler Reifel Mr. Buckley for, with Mr. Minshall against. Beermann Hemphill Rhodes, Ariz. The Clerk read as follows: Belcher Henderson Rich Mr. Fogarty !or, with Mr. Gurney against. Amendment offered by Mr. FRELINGHUY- Bell Herlong Roberts, Ala. Mr. Green of Pennsylvania for, with Mr. SEN: Bennett, Fla. Hoeven Robison Oliver P. Bolton against. Page 2, llne 8, strike out "or employee". Berry Hoffman Rogers, Fla. Mr. Miller of California !or, with Mr. Betts Horan Rogers, Tex. Riehlman against. Line 14, strike out "or employee". Bolton, Hosmer Rosenthal Line 18, strike out "or its employees". FrancesP. Huddleston Roudebush Line 20, strike out "or employee". Bonner Hutchinson Roush Until further notice: Bow Jarman Rumsfeld Mr. Barrett with Mr. Curtis. The amendment was agreed to. Bray Jensen Ryan, Mich. Mrs. Kee with Mr. Miller of New York. Mr. THOMPSON of New Jersey. Mr. Brock Joelson Saylor Mr. Kirwan with Mr. Bennett of Michigan. Bromwell Johansen Schadeberg Speaker, I make the point of order that Broomfield Johnson, Wis. Schneebeli Mr. Donohue with Mr. Schenck. a quorum is not present. Brotzman Jonas Schweiker Mr. Philbin with Mr. Fulton of Pennsyl­ The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Broyhill, N.C. Jones, Ala. Schwengel vania. Chair will count. [After counting.] Broyhill, Va. Kastenmeier Secrest Mr. Patten with Mr. Chenoweth. Bruce Keith Selden Mr. Thompson of Louisiana with Mr. Grif- Two hundred and twenty-seven Members Burton Kilburn Short fin. are present, a quorum. Byrnes, Wis. Kilgore Shriver Cederberg King, N.Y. Sibal Mrs. Kee with Mr. Cahill. Mr. SISK. Mr. Speaker, I move the Chelf Knox Sikes Mr. Flynt with Mr. Ostertag. previous question. · Clancy Kornegay Siler Mr. Harding with Mr. Chamberlain. The previous question was ordered. Clausen Kunkel Skubitz Mr. Shelley with Mr. Horton. Cleveland Kyl Slack Mr. Shipley with Mr. CUrtin. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Collier Laird Snyder question is on the resolution. Colmer Landrum Springer Mr. Clark with Mr. O'Brien of New York. The question was taken, and· the Cooley Langen Stafford Mr. Holifield with Mr. Staebler. Corbett Latta Staggers Mr. Rains with Mr. Lankford. Speaker pro tempore announced that the Cramer Lennon Stephens Mr. Sheppard with Mr. Scott. ayes appeared to have it. Cunningham Lesinski Stinson Mr. Edmondson with Mr. Willis. Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. Speaker, I ask Dague Lipscomb Stubblefield Mrs. Green of Oregon with Mr. Fuqua. Davis, Ga. Lloyd Taft for the yeas and nays. Davis, Tenn. Long, La. Talcott Mr. Charles H. Wilson with Mr. Healey. The yeas and nays were ordered. Devine Long, Md. Teague, Calif. The question was taken; and there Dole McClory Thomson, Wis. Mr. TUTEN changed his vote from Dorn McCulloch Tuck "yea" to "nay." were--yeas 153, nays 217, answered Dowdy McDade Tupper Mr. GOODELL changed his vote from "present" 1, not voting 64, as follows: Downing Mcintire Tuten "nay" to "yea." [Roll No. 48) Dwyer McLoskey Utt Elliott McMillan Van Pelt The vote was announced as above YEAS-153 Everett MacGregor Wallhauser recorded. Addabbo Gill O 'Hara, Mich. Evins Mailliard Watson Albert Gonzalez Olsen, Mont. Fino Marsh Watts Ashley Goodell O'Neill Fisher Martin, Calif. Weaver KREBIOZEN Aspinall Grabowski Osmers Ford Martin, Mass. Weltner Ayres Gray Patman Forems.n Martin, Nebr. Westland Mr. LIBONATI. Mr. Speaker, I ask Baldwin Hagen, Calif. Pepper Fountain Matthews Whalley unanimous consent to address the House Bass Halleck Perkins Fulton, Tenn. May Wharton Beckworth Halpern P ike Gary Meader Whitener for 1 minute, to revise and extend my Blatnik Hansen Pirnie Gathings Milliken Whitten remarks, and to include extraneous Boggs Hardy Poage Gavin Montoya. Wickersham matter. Bolling Harris Price Gibbons Moore Widnall Brademas Hawkins Pucinski Glenn Morris Williams The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there Brooks Hays Purcell Goodling Morse Wilson Bob objection to the request of the gentleman Brown, Calif. Holland Reid, N.Y. Grant Murray Wilson, Ind. from Illinois? Brown, Ohio Hull Reuss Griffiths Natcher Winstead Burke Ichord Rhodes, Pa. Gross Nelsen Wright There was no objection. Burleson Jennings Rivers, Alaska Grover Nygaard Wydler Mr. LIBONATI. Mr. Speaker, citi­ Byrne, Pa. Johnson, Calif. Rivers, S.C. Gubser O'Konskl Wyman Cannon Jones, Mo. Roberts, Tex. Hagan, Ga. Olson, Minn. zens interested in Krebiozen, a non­ Carey Karsten Rodino PRESENT-I toxic drug, used in the treatment of Casey Karth Rogers, Colo. cancer, and discovered by Dr. Stevan Celler Kelly Rooney Van Deerlin Durovic, of Chicago, Ill., and spon­ Cohelan King, Calif. Rostenkowskl NOT VOTING-64 Conte Kluczynski Roybal sored by Dr. Andrew C. Ivy, distinguished Corman Leggett Ryan, N.Y. Barrett Garmatz Powell professor of physiology, for many years, Daddario Libonati St. George Bennett, Mich. Green, Oreg. Rains Daniels Lindsay St Germain Boland Green, Pa. Randall at the University of Illinois are here on Dawson McDowell Senner Bolton, Griffin Riehlman a mission of hope today. Delaney McFall Sickles Oliver P. Gurney Roosevelt Early in the 1950's, the then president Dent Macdonald Sisk Buckley Harding St. Onge Denton Madden Smith, Calif. Burkhalter Healey Schenck of the University of Illinois, Dr. George Derounian Mahon Smith, Iowa Cahill Holifield Scott Stoddard, placed a ban on the research Derwinski Mathias Smith, Va. Cameron Horton Shelley of the drug which was being conducted Diggs Matsunaga Steed Chamberlain Kee Sheppard Dingell Michel Stratton Chenoweth Keogh Shipley by Doctors Ivy and Durovic, at the Uni­ Dulski Mills Sullivan Clark Kirwan Staebler versity of Illinois Medical Schools in Duncan Minish Teague, Tex. Curtin Lankford Taylor Chicago. The prestige of the University Edwards Monagan Thomas Curtis Miller, Calif. Thompson, La. Fallon Moorhead Thompson, N.J. Donohue Miller, N.Y. Waggonner was at stake in preventing freedom of Farbstein Morgan Thompson, Tex. Edmondson Minshall Walter research. Fascell Morton Thornberry Ellsworth Morrison Willis As a member of the Illinois State Sen­ Feighan Mosher Toll Flynt O'Brien, N.Y. Wilson, Findley Moss Tollefson Fogarty Ostertag CharlesH. ate; together with other senators and Finnegan Multer Trimble Forrester Patten Younger members of the house of representatives, Flood Murphy, Ill. Udall Fulton, Pa. Philbin I was instrumental in passing a resolu­ Fraser Murphy, N.Y. Ullman Fuqua Pilcher Frelinghuysen Nedzi Vanik tion to investigate his alleged trespass in Friedel Nix Vinson So the resolution was rejected. the field of research. After many hear­ Gallagher Norblad White The Clerk announced the following ings and an interval of time, subsequent Giaimo O'Brien, ill. Young Gilbert O'Hara, ID. Zablocki pairs: to a determination of the hearings, Dr. NAYS-217 On this vote: Stoddard was relieved of his duties as Mr. Walter for, with Mr. Morrison against. president of the University of Illinois by Abbitt Adair Andrews Abele Alger · Arends Mr. Keogh for, with Mr. Taylor against. the board of trustees, as being without Abernethy Anderson Ashbrook Mr. Powell for, with Mr. Younger against. their confidence. ·-:. 1963 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 8521 The American Medical Associati-0n has the recent law, and that the Department Mr. Speaker, throughout the past days, used every professional tactic to prevent of Health, Education, and Welfare pro­ in the face of the worst sort of provoca­ its members from using Krebiozen, and ceed to test Krebiozen, toward the de­ tion, including, as I reported to the House registered objections to the Department termination of the issuance of a license last week, threats, epithets, spitting, of Health, Education, and Welfare test­ for its manufacture and its use for ex­ bricks, and all the rest, the local law-en­ ing it. From my own personal experi­ perimental purposes. forcement omcers have proved them­ ence I have procured Krebiozen for five The following telegram was received selves capable not only of keeping order terminal cancer patients who are still by me last Saturday from Mr. Booth, of where potential chaos looms, but also alive some 5 to 7 years after being sent New York City: capable of an admirable restraint, sense home to die. In such clinics as the Mayo At 4 p.m. Tuesday, cancer survivors on of duty, and emotional balance. Clinic, tests show that these patients' Krebiozen will bring their medical records It is precisely because the local law­ cancers have disappeared and they are to a reception in the Senate Office . enforcement omcers have, since the out­ not now receiving Krebiozen, from the All Congressmen are invited to attend. May set, been able to keep control of the I respectfully ask you to be sure this invita­ latest reports to me. tion is extended to the House of Representa­ situation from those who, with their so­ There are some 500 physicians pres­ tives at their next meeting. called peaceful demonstrations have at­ ently using this drug, and the reports on tempted to incite discord and lawlessness, their cases have been submitted to a Mr. that it was, in my opinion, totally un­ B. Jones, of the Department of Health, THE COMPETENCE OF LOCAL LAW necessary for the President to order Education, and Welfare, for his perusal, OFFICIALS IN BIRMINGHAM troops to be sent to certain points in in accordance with requests. Mr. HUDDLESTON. Mr. Speaker, I our State. I urged the President, in my There are presently 100 patients who telegram to him yesterday, to reverse are receiving Krebiozen and, if they are ask unanimous consent to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and his decision and I did so on two bases. deprived of this drug, they will die. One, because I believe he lacks the con­ Krebiozen shows biological activity and extend my remarks. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there stitutional authority to employ Federal is nontoxic and, in 75 percent of the cases objection to the request of the gentleman troops under the circumstances, and, in which it has been used, it has as­ two, because, to reiterate, the local law­ suaged pain, completely, after narcotics, from Alabama? There was no objection. enforcement omcers in Birmingham have such as morphine, and so forth, had be­ Mr. HUDDLESTON. Mr. Speaker, proved their unquestioned ability to come ineffective. In other cases, it has preserve order under the most trying cir­ reduced the tumors in size, as in breast despite protestations of professional racial demagogs and despite certain cumstances. cancers, and, in still other cases the can­ I simply want the role of the Birming­ cerous tissue has disappeared entirely. horror pictures circulated in the news media, I believe a majority of the citi­ ham police force and the other local law They have had success in 60 percent of omcials to be made perfectly clear and the cases of leukemia treated, and have zens of this country are aware of the fact that, during the recent, unfortu­ I want to publicly commend them one been highly successful in treatment of and all. cancer of the bone---osteomyelitis. nate incidents in Birmingham, the local All of these records were submitted to police force has acted in a consistently commendable, and competent manner. the Department of Health, Education, POLITICAL CRISIS IN HAITI and Welfare. It is my understanding Fake charges of brutality were uncovered that they refused to test the drug because in a story in the Washington Star last Mr. ·SELDEN. Mr. Speaker, I ask of the fact that there were not records Friday when one of the many comedians unanimous consent to address the House of the patients previous to their treat­ who flew into Birmingham to capitalize for 1 minute and to revise and extend my ment for the disease. It is to be re­ on the situation was asked to show the remarks. membered that the records presented results of having his arm twisted and The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there were given by the physician who treated pummeled, which he reported had been objection to the request of the gentleman each case. And it is to be understood done by the Birmingham police. He from Alabama? that this drug, Krebiozen, in the experi­ rolled up his left sleeve and was search­ There was no objection. mental stages, is only permitted to be ing for the mark when the reporter who Mr. SELDEN. Mr. Speaker, it must given in terminal cases, when further asked the question reminded him he had surely be a source of Kremlin satisfac­ medically known aid is deemed futile. originally indicated it was his right arm tion that a U.S. Government quick to Under recent law, passed in the last which had been hurt. Similar reports of move Federal troops into Alabama has session of the Congress, Krebiozen, not brutality have proved to be equally been slow to react to the growing politi­ having been given governmental ap­ untrue. cal crisis in Haiti. proval for the issuance of a license, can­ As a matter of fact, I have been hear­ The crisis in Haiti now has reached a not be administered to any patient. It is ing from citizens from around the coun­ dangerous climax. If our policy plan­ an established medical fact that the try who recognize the truth of the sit­ ners have indeed anticipated develop­ withdrawal of Krebiozen results in a uation and who have commended the law ments in Haiti, then the time has progressive ravage of the disease. enforcement omcers on the scene in Bir­ arrived for our policy to be quickly imple­ The apprehension of the relatives and mingham for the outstanding job they mented by action. In short, we have doctors of those pati en ts in this group are doing. I would like to read just one reached a time of decision unless the is understandable. of the communications I have received tragedy of Cuba is to be repeated. There are similar organized groups all from a citizen of this city, Washington, There is evidence-ominous evidence­ over the United States, consisting of D.C., whose praising assessment of the that forces are at work to convert Haiti persons interested in the Krebiozen pro­ situation is shared, I know, by many into the second Communist base in the gram, as well as relatives of persons re­ other citizens from every part of the Caribbean. Certainly the conditions in ceiving the drug. I know that the Con­ United States. The letter, from Mr. that unsettled country are ripe for Com­ gress did not intend, by operation of Bolling B. Flood, of 2740 34th Street NW., munist purposes. And let there be no law, to deprive cancer victims of a drug Washington, is as follows: doubt that Fidel Castro and the Krem­ to keep them alive. In tests by com­ Hon. GEORGE HUDDLESTON, lin's agents are ready, willing and ca­ House of Representatives, petent medical men Krebiozen has either Washington, D.C. pable of moving into any power vacuum prolonged life or gave relief from pain DEAR Sm: As a citizen of the District of left open by indecision and inaction on to hundreds such victims condemned to Columbia, I look with great admiration on the part of the free nations of the hemi­ death. the law-enforcement officers in Birmingham. sphere. I am transmitting to the Congress, The fact that no fatalities or serious injuries Immediate and firm action must be with the utmost sincerity of purpose, the have resulted from the current racial unrest taken by the hemisphere to fill the va­ plea of these fellow Americans, that we is something any city in the world could be cuum that will be left in Haiti by the justly proud of. If such a situation existed intercede in behalf of the victims of can­ here I would only hope that our law-en­ anticipated collapse of the Duvalier gov­ cer and their relatives, and that these forcement officers could do as well as these ernment. If the Organization of Amer­ victims be permitted to continue to re­ gallant men in Birmingham, Ala. ican States does not respond effectively ceive Krebiozen, after the deadline of Sincerely, to this need for action, the United States June 6, 1963, under the provisions of BOLLING B. FLOOD. cannot be bound by that Organization's 8522 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE May 14 failure to meet its hemispheric responsi­ this hour as one in which the free na­ able to foreign production. Stated an­ bilities. tions of the hemisphere faltered and thus other way, our case rests on the simple It was failure of hemispheric leader­ allowed Haiti to become the second Com­ proposition that if lead and zinc are ship that resulted in the establishment munist satellite of the Americas. essential in time of emergency or possi­ of Castro's Cuba as the first Communist ble war-and I think everybody agrees base in the Americas. A similar failure that they are-then it is imperative that regarding Haiti will all but convert the DOMESTIC LEAD-ZINC MINING IN­ as a matter of national policy we keep Caribbean into a Red Sea of the Western DUSTRY MUST BE KEPT ALIVE the domestic lead-zinc mining industry Hemisphere. alive during peacetime by assuring it a To prevent this, the U.S. Government Mr. ASPINALL. Mr. Speaker, I ask fair share of the domestic market. We must prepare to move, in force if neces­ unanimous consent to extend my remarks then do not say that foreign trade should sary, to seal off Haiti from Communist at this point in the RECORD and include be cut off and imports excluded; on the designs. This means we must give un­ certain tables and statistics. contrary, we recognize the place in for­ equivocal warning to the Kremlin and its The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there eign trade of lead-zinc imports but ask Castro agents that any attempt to send objection to the request of the gentleman for equitable treatment of our domestic arms, agents, or equipment into Haiti from Colorado? mining industry. will result in a U.S. naval blockade, not There was no objection. If this simple proposition is accepted, only of Haiti, but of all the Caribbean Mr. ASPINALL. Mr. Speaker, once the remaining question merely concerns area. We are bound under hemispheric again a group of my colleagues and I the determination of how the domestic agreement, as well as the interests of our have embarked on a major and con­ market should be apportioned and the own national security, to take whatever certed effort to save the domestic lead­ means most feasible by which to do so. action is necessary to maintain Haiti as zinc mining industries from extinction. We think that the bill that we have co­ a member of the inter-American system. I hope that the approximately 40 Con­ sponsored today presents a reasonable Nor can we overlook the menace of a gressmen representing lead-zinc-produc­ solution by readjusting the existing Communist takeover in Haiti from with­ ing districts will support our effort at the quotas covering imports of lead and zinc in, on the Cuban pattern. Our policy outset and that subsequently a majority to make them both realistic and :flexible, planners gravely misjudged Fidel Castro of the House will do likewise. the :flexibility being built in to guaran­ and miscalculated the true meaning of We have come to this body in the past; tee against undue restraints on foreign Castroism. Let bitter experience be our and I think you know the basic facts trade. guide now in calculating the intentions revolving around the deterioration of the In order to provide for Members gen­ of so-called Haitian agrarian reformers. lead-zinc mining industry as a result of erally necessary background that brings The hour of decision has struck for imports of ores and metal in excess of us to this point, I am including, under Haiti. We must act quickly and firmly that which we think is the reasonable permission previously granted, tables of so that future historians do not mark share of the market that should be avail- pertinent statistical data.

Summary of lead-zinc statistics since 1950 LEAD [In short tons oflead content)

Production Stocks end period Total Industrial Employees employees Average Period Dutiable Con- atleadand at primary price per Mine Secondary Total lead Con- imports sumption zinc mines smelting pound output lead metal Producers I sumers' and mills and refining

1950. ------430,827 482,275 990, 589 137,669 139,884 514, 954 1, 237,981 13.296 388, 164 518, 110 935,803 124,080 102, 760 191, 649 1, 184, 793 17. 500 1951. ------24;"282" ---··11~889" 1952. ------390, 161 471,294 944, 146 149, 778 122,530 1644,217 1, 130, 795 16. 467 1953. ------342,644 486, 737 954,628 196,340 113, 763 409,004 1,201, 604 13.489 1954. ------325,419 480,925 967, 637 201,850 124,641 460, 197 1,094,871 ---··11~016· :::::::::::: 14. 054 338,025 502,051 981, 208 150,822 117,458 424,413 1,212, 644 15.138 1955. ------··15;845· ---··17~155· 1956. ------352,826 506, 755 1,049,063 159,259 123, 995 420,.005 1,209, 717 16. 014 1957 ------338,216 489,229 1,022, 762 207, 912 129,310 512,289 l, 138, 115 14. 658 1958. ------267, 377 401, 787 871, 943 303, 316 122, 900 2 561, 263 986,387 10, 500 13, 641 12.102 1959. ------255, 586 451,387 792, 318 230,328 126,496 347, 117 1, 091, 149 9, 893 13, 308 12. 211 1960.1961 ______------246,669 469, 903 852,339 305,841 97, 268 354, 211 1, 021, 172 9, 430 13, 303 11. 948 261, 921 452, 792 902,357 312,402 99, 140 354, 714 1,027,216 9, 312 13, 335 10. 871 1962 '------:------237,386 440,000 820,200 236, 547 00, 695 340, 191 1,080, 700 (4) (') 9.63

ZINC [In short tons of zinc content]

Production Stocks end period Zinc consumption Average Period Dutiable price per Mine Secondary Total zinc Pro- Con- imports Slab Ores con- pound output zinc metal ducers' sumers' zinc sumedand Total secondary

1950. ------623,375 66, 970 910,437 8,884 64,206 394, 153 967, 134 383,367 1, 350, 501 13. 866 1951. ------681, 189 48, 657 930,290 21, 901 50,071 285,618 933, 971 392, 111 1,326,082 18. 000 1952. ------666,001 55, lll 959, 590 87, 160 92,579 1599,435 852, 783 358, 865 1, 211,648 16. 215 1953. ------547,430 52,875 968, 980 180,843 84,863 653,832 985, 927 356,462 1,342,389 10. 855 1954. ------473,471 68,013 870,438 124,277 100, 981 630,488 884, 299 296,393 1, 180,692 10. 681 1955. ------514,671 66,042 1,029, 546 40, 979 123, 544 569, 639 1, 119, 812 349,268 1,469,080 12. 299 1956. ------542,340 72, 127 1, 055, 737 68,622 104,094 627,071 1,008, 790 314,232 1,323,022 13.494 1957. ------531, 735 72, 481 l, 058, 277 166,660 88,342 881, 953 935, 620 295, 593 1,231,593 11. 399 1958. ------412,005 46, 605 827, 851 190, 237 93,609 2687,189 868,327 273,838 1, 142, 165 10.309 1959. ------425, 303 57, 818 856,484 154,419 102,428 514, 112' . 956, 197 322, 179 1, 278, 518 11. 448 1960. ------435,427 68, 731 868,247 190, 810 68,871 501,899 877, 884 281,054 1, 158,938 12. 946 1961.. ------466, 576 55, 237 902,032 172, 586 93, 782 479,624 931,213 276, 256 1,'lffl,469 11. 542 1962 s------505, 648 54, 905 940,623 181, 513 75, 914 510, 121 1, 013, 949 332,360 1,346,309 1L5

1 Import duties suspended Feb. 12, 1952, to June 24, 1952. The dutiable import 354, 720 tons of lead and 520,960 tons of zinc. figure includes 464,617 tons of lead and 599,435 tons of zinc on the free list. a Preliminary. 2 Quotas effective Oct. 1, 1958, permit maximum _annual imports for consumption of 4 Not available. 1963 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 8523 The foregoing statistics illustrate a it contains much data received in confidence, have been largely or completely offset by the few things. For one thing, it is readily such as that pertaining to the operations of absolute quotas imposed on imports of zinc. an individual concern. However, the follow­ In filing the petition in this case the work­ seen that domestic consumption has not ing excerpts from that report give the Com­ ers were seeking a ·determination of eligi­ made significant inroads in our stocks. mission's finding and summarize the princi­ bility to apply for adjustment assistance un­ Coupled with this we have the fact that pal considerations in support of the finding: der chapter 3 of the Trade Expansfon Act. domestic mines are capable of supplying "On the basis of its investigation the Among other things, chapter 3 provides for the quantity of ore necessary to produce Commission unanimously finds that unman­ trade readjustment allowances to be paid to between 35 and 40 percent of the lead ufactured zinc 1 is not, as a result in major "adversely affected" workers. In the report of metal and between 55 and 60 percent of part of concessions granted under trade the Committee on Ways and Means of the the zinc metal utilized annually within agreements, being imported in such increased House of Representatives on H.R. 11970 quantities as to cause the unemployment of (which, after various amendments, ulti­ the United States. Therefore, the in­ a significant number or proportion of the mately became the Trade Expansion Act of dustry and its friends in Congress read­ workers at the zinc mine and mill of The 1962), the provisions of the bill relating to ily recognize and acknowledge that the New Jersey Zinc Co. at Hanover, N. Mex." adjustment assistance to workers are dis­ balance of the supply for both lead and Before the Conunission can make an affirm­ cussed. On page 30 of the report it is stated: zinc must come from either reprocessed ative finding under section 301(c) (2) of "Your committee believes that the scale of or secondary metal or from foreign the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, it must de­ trade adjustment allowances [for workers] is sources. termine (1) that the imports in question are appropriate in view of the fact that the find­ Approximately 40 percent of our do­ entering the United States in increased quan­ ing that the unemployment was caused by tities; (2) that the increased imports are due increased imports resulting from the removal, mestic consumption of lead metal and "in major part" to trade agreement conces­ in whole or in part, of tariff protection im­ approximately 5 percent of our domestic sions; and (3) that such increased imports plies that continuation of the prior tariff consumption of zinc metal is provided are "the major factor" in causing, or threat­ would have provided full job protection. from reprocessed or secondary sources. ening to cause, unemployment or underem­ This worker assistance is, therefore, in the This leaves a need to import approxi­ ployment of a significant number of the nature of an adjustment to conditions mately 20 percent of the lead metal con­ workers of the firm or subdivision of the firm brought about by removal of prior job pro­ sumed in the United States and approxi­ in question. tection." mately 40 percent of the zinc. In the instant case, the Commission de­ Thus the committee defined the "conces­ The problem arises from the fact that termined that unmanufactured zinc is not sion" as meaning "the removal, in whole or being imported in increased quantities. in part, of tariff protection." in addition to the stocks that I men­ Commercial imports for consumption 2 of un­ The ta.riff protection that was "removed" tioned a moment ago, our imports since manufactured zinc have not increased since by trade agreement concessions on unmanu­ 1950 have been sufficient to meet ap­ 1958 • • •. Such imports have been pre­ factured zinc consisted of the removal of proximately 38 percent of our lead metal vented from rising since October 1, 1958, as part of the duties originally established for requirements and approximately 60 a result of the imposition of absolute quar­ such zinc under the Tariff Act of 1930. The percent of our zinc metal consumption terly quotas equal, on an annual basis, to 80 changes in the rates of duty since the act of thereby contributing to the buildup of percent of the average annual imports during 1930 a~e summarized below: the years 1953-57.3 Annual commercial im­ additional excessive stocks which in ports during 1953-57 averaged 651,300 tons. ·turn lead to lowered prices, decreased The import quota, on an annual basis, was Zinc- Zinc Zinc scrap, domestic production, and closed domestic established at 520,960 tons • • •. In the bearing blocks, dross, and mines. Parenthetically, I should like to last 4 years, 1959-62, actual commercial im­ ores skimmings Item (cents per P!f!i>~r (cents per call the Members' attention at this time ports averaged 501,406 tons per year, or 23 pound on (cents per pound, to the fact that the assistance provisions percent less than the rate during 1953-57. zinc pound, gross The average annual commercial imports dur­ content) gross weight) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 are weight) not capable of being used readily by do­ ing 1959-62 also were considerably smaller (by 22 percent) than the average for the pre­ mestic labor and industry with the ease ceding 7 years, 1952-58. Effective date: that some of you might expect. The absolute import quotas reduced the June 18, 1930 ___ 1. 5 1. 75 1. 5 A demonstration of this fact arises Jan. 1, 1939 _____ 1.2 1.4 flow of imports below the rate that had pre­ Jan. 30, 1943 I ___ . 75 .875 ------:75 from the closing of a zinc mine at Han­ vailed (under the trade agreement conces­ Jan. 1, 1948 1 ____ . 75 .875 ______.. •___ 75 over, N. Mex., by New Jersey Zinc Co. sions) for a period of about 7 years prior to June 6, 195L ____ .6 .7 Total rate reduc- The union representing the workers at the imposition of the quotas. The Commis­ tion since June the mine petitioned the U.S. Tariff Com­ sion therefore finds that unmanufactured 18, 1930 ______.9 1.05 . 75 zinc is not "being imported in increased mission for assistance on the grounds quantities," within the meaning of the stat­ that, as announced by the company, the i The trade agreement with Mexico, which became ute. The petitioners' contrary claim rests on effective Jan. 30, 1943, was terminated Jan. 1, 1951. The mine had been closed because of import the ground that the averag") annual imports duties did not change as a result of the termination, how­ competition. The Tariff Commission re­ were much higher in 1959-62 than in 1946- ever, because the same rates established by the agree­ jected the petition of the union for its 50-a decade and a half ago. Even if the ment with Mexico were provided for, effective Jan. 1, workers on the grounds that it had not Commission accepted the petitioners' claim, 1948, in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. been demonstrated that import competi­ it could not agree that the alleged increase As reported above, the first concessions tion was the major cause of the mine in imports occurred "as a result in· major on unmanufactured zinc became effective closure. Under permission previously part of concessions granted under trade on January 1, 1939, and the most recent ones granted to extend my remarks, I include agreements" inasmuch as the concessions became effective on June 6, 1951. The rates at this point the Tariff Commission's shown above were the only import restric­ 1 The term "unmanufactured zinc" refers tions imposed on unmanufactured zinc un­ decision: to zinc-bearing ores; zinc in blocks, pigs, or til the quotas were imposed. The increased TARDT COMMISSION REPORTS TO THE PRESI­ slabs; old and wornout zinc; and zinc dross protection afforded the domestic zinc indus­ DENT ON ZINC WORKERS' PETITION FOR and zinc skimmings. These articles are pro­ try by the subsequent imposition of the ADJ'USTMENT ASSISTANCE vided for in pars. 393 and 394 of the Tariff import quotas offsets in the main, if not The Tariff Commission today reported to Act of 1930. entirely, the reduced protection that had the President the results of its investigation .1 The term "commercial imports for con­ resulted from the trade-agreement conces­ No. TEA-W-1, conducted under section 301 sumption" refers to direct entries for con­ sions. It is clear that the "remnant" of the (c) (2) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. sumption plus withdrawals from bonded original trade-agreement concessions after The investigation was made in response to warehouses for consumption, exclusive of im­ modification by the import quotas could not a workers' petition for determination of eli­ ports for U.S. Government account and ex­ contribute in major part to the alleged in­ gibiUty to apply for adjustment assistance. clusive of imports free of duty under bond creased imports. The petition was filed with the Commission for smelting, refining, and export. In the course of its investigation, the on January 9, 1963, by the International a The quotas were established on a quar­ Commission obtained considerable evidence Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers on terly basis by Presidential Proclamation No. to indicate that even if it could regard im­ behalf of a group of 126 workers of the zinc 3257 following an escape-clause investigation ports of unmanufactured zinc as entering mine and mill at Hanover, N. Mex., owned by the Tariff Com.mission under sec. 7 of the in increased quantities, it could not find and operated by the New Jersey Zinc Co. Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951, as that the claimed increase was the major These workers were laid off when production amended. The years 1953 through 1957 were factor leading to the recent closure of the operations at the mine and mill ceased on used as a base period by the three Commis­ Hanover mine and mill. December 1, 1962. The whole of the Com­ sioners who had recommended the imposi­ The Commission's report then summarizes mission'& report cannot be made public, since tion of quotas and also by the President. the evidence in support of that position, 8524 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE May 14 and concludes with the following observa­ Lead-Zinc Small Producers Stabiliza­ eign Trade Expansion Act, I feel that it tion: tion Act of October 3, 1961-75 Stat. has become increasingly clear that for­ "In view of the considerations set forth mulas should exist for the sharing of above, it appears tha't the closing of the 766-specifically designed as a stopgap Hanover mine and mm ·was based primarily measure to help small producers only. the American market, and I believe the on ox:dlnary business considerations. While The law we adopted embraces a modest formulas should be written in ink instead competition from imports was no doubt a program, on a declining phaseout basis, of in water. I believe the formula as factor in the decision, it was not the major where the greatest assistance is given in expressed in this legislation is fair, and factor. In any event, since the level of the first years of operation on a declining it will tend to be of some protection to imports has been stable for the past 4 years basis. The theory was and is that be­ our American lead-zinc industry. (and may be expected to remain so in the absence of change in the tariffs and absolute tween 1961 and the end of the program quotas applicable thereto), increased im­ in 1965 we would in the meantime have ports could not have been the major factor found a long-range solution for the en­ DANGER LURKS IN PRESIDENT'S that caused the New Jersey Zinc Co. to close tire lead-zinc industries. LACK OF -A PROGRAM the Hanover mine and mill." Members in both Houses of Congress Mr. ALGER. Mr. Speaker, I ask unan­ The problems of the lead and zinc in­ from lead-zinc producing States can no imous consent to address the House for dustries are, of course, not new prob­ longer wait while conditions of the in­ 1 minute and to revise and extend my lems. Since 1950 the U.S. Tariff Com­ dustries deteriorate further. This de­ remarks. mission has on eight separate occasions terioration has continued despite proph­ The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there reviewed the problems of these indus­ ecies that there are some prospects for objection to the request of the gentleman tries and recognized substantial injury, increased consumption that might create from Texas? Duty increases were recommended in greater demands for these metals despite There was no objection. 1954, but President Eisenhower rejected the intensified competition with other Mr. ALGER. Mr. Speaker, the United the Commission's recommendations and materials. States badly needs a leader and a policy. directed acceleration of military stock­ The administration not having come Any program of action, domestic or piling, which has created an additional forward with a program, we have devised foreign, is dangerous without both. on the market today. a plan that is keyed to our actual do­ Mr. Speaker, the tragedy of this day The end of Government acquisition mestic needs of iril.ported lead and zinc in history is the failure of President programs coincided with the advent of at a reasonable price under a formula Kennedy to assume his proper role as the the 1957-58 recession which struck the fair to all concerned. We think the plan leader of the Nation. It is evident the lead-zinc industries with great severity. is fair to domestic miners, domestic President has no long-range policy or Consumption in the United States de­ smelters, and U.S. consumers while at program to meet the pressures at loose clined and prices fell. Imports, how­ the same time not imposing an increased in the country and in the world. His ever, continued with little abatement. tariff. The legislation we introduce to­ every action is based on the expediency A Republican administration, supported day provides for an adjustable quota of the moment. by Democratic and Republican friends that would fluctuate as the price of lead The very lack of a program and the of the industry in Congress, sought a and zinc fluctuate, in lieu of the rigid attempt to solve each crisis on the basis broad program of stabilization payments quota established in 1958 on an unreal­ of expediency poses a serious danger. in the nature of subsidies, but the nec­ istic basis. For instance, I have been among those essary legislation was not enacted. Recognizing the danger of oversim­ who have been calling on the President In April 1958, the U.S. Tariff Commis­ plification, I should like to summarize to take action to rid Cuba of its Commu­ sion made a unanimous finding of in­ the proposed legislation for Members by nist dictator and to end the Communist jury and three of the Commissioners saying that quota restrictions would be­ aggression in this hemisphere. I am recommended that maximum allowable come more restrictive whenever the mar­ convinced this must be our ultimate goal. tariffs and maximum quotas be imposed ket price of either lead or zinc on the Any action the President takes, however, restricting imports to 50 percent of those domestic market was less than 13 % cents must be within the framework of an actually effected during the period 1953- per pound, with restrictions relaxed overall program, not just a sudden im­ 57. However, when President Eisen­ whenever the domestic market price ex­ pulse to send American troops to Cuba hower finally acted to implement this ceeds 13% cents per pound. We would, because of pressure generated here in recommendation he imposed no increase however, still use the 1953-57 period to Congress or among the people. Such an in tariff rates and permitted importers calculate quotas on imports of manufac­ overall program would include, I should to have a quota at 80 percent of the tured items which are in direct competi­ think, reimposmg the Monroe Doctrine, 1953-57 base period level. In calculat­ tion with the domestic production of lead an effective blockade of Cuba to stop the ing the quotas, sales to the United States and zinc. flow of military essentials such as oil, for use in the stockpile were not in­ Mr. Speaker, I urge all Members as well the setting of a time limit for the re­ cluded in the base with only competi­ as interested omcials of the executive de­ moval of Russian troops and weapons, tive exports that were sold in commerce partments, to study this legislation. I and effective alliances with other West- being considered. trust that the committee to which the . ern Hemisphere nations to prevent the As indicated a moment ago the quotas, bills are referred will promptly obtain the spread of Communist aggression, and, which have remained constant since administration's views and hold hearings. of course, recognize a government in they were established in October 1958, I am confident that when. this matter exile so the Cuban people could free their have given a disproportionate share of has been given full consideration, the own homeland. the market to foreign producers. legislation we have introduced today will The President has never accepted the Although various solutions to the con­ be enacted. positive suggestions offered by many tinuing problems of the lead-zinc mining Mr. MATHIAS. Mr. Speaker, I ask Members of Congress and knowledgeable industries were sought by administra­ unanimous consent that the gentleman citizens for any of the problems we face. tive and legislative groups and agencies, from Washington [Mr. HORAN] may ex­ Instead, he has reacted to each indi­ including a United Nations-sponsored tend his remarks at this point in the vidual situation, attempting to put out lead-zinc study group, the condition of RECORD. small fires, while the flames spread with the lead-zinc industries in the United The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there consuming intensity in all other parts of States continued to deteriorate. Your objection to the request of the gentleman national and world structure. As a re­ Committee on Interior and Insular Af­ from Maryland? sult the President has become the victim fairs conducted a special study of the There was no objection. of pressure from all sides and retreats impact on the small domestic producer · Mr. HORAN. Mr. Speaker, it is in­ whenever organized pressure is implied who had been called upon to expand deed a pleasure for me to join with my or a fact. his production for World War II, the colleague, the gentleman from Colorado Witness our dealings with the Soviet Korean war, and the stockpiling pro­ the Honorable WAYNE ASPINALL, in the Union since the advent of the Kennedy gram. introduction of a measure which would administration. The President has made Pending the attainment of an overall fix a formula for sharing the American brave speeches, but failed to follow solution, we favorably reported to the market with other producers of lead and through with brave action, turning in­ House, and the Congress enacted, the zinc. Ever since the passage of the For- stead to accommodation of the Soviets. 1963 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 8525 The result has been the steady advance on the surface it appears to be mellow­ minute and to revise and extend my of Communist influence in the world and ing? Of course not. remarks. loss after loss of U.S. prestige with in­ I am strongly opposed to the resump­ The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there creased threats to our security. tion of diplomatic relations with the mur­ objection to t}J.e request of the gentleman Witness the Kennedy approach to the derers of the Hungarian freedom fighters Kansas? matter of race relations. Failing to make during the 1956 revolution. I am op­ There was no objection. the progress for the Negro he hoped by posed to opening the way for taxpayers' Mr. DOLE. Mr. Speaker, I have today reason of law, he now succumbs to the money to be poured into Hungary for the introduced a resolution which would ex­ pressure of massive demonstrations to support of Khrushchev's puppet. This empt farmer-elected county agricultural urge compliance with the demands of move by the United States could once stabilization and conservation commit­ Negro leaders with the result we are wit­ again be used as persuasive propaganda teemen from taking any loyalty oath nessing an increase in racial tensions, a on the millions locked behind the Iron binding them to support administration breakdown of authority and a growing Curtain to indicate that the United farm programs. disrespect for the forces of law and order States is willing to condone and coexist The resolution would rescind the fol­ which, if carried to its logical conclusion, with the oppressors of freedom. lowing regulation promulgated by Sec­ will hurt the Negro race most of all. Mr. Speaker, I wish to insert this ar­ retary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman Witness the President's handling of ticle from the Evening Star so that my on March 1. 1963: colleagues might have the opportunity labor relations. In case after case the Provided, however, That before any such administration has reacted to the threats to review the State Department's pro­ county committeeman or alternate commit­ of labor leaders to call widespread strikes posal and its reasoning. I only hope teeman may take office he shall sign a pledge by pressuring industry to accede to la­ that I am not alone in my opposition to that he will faithfully, fairly, and honestly bor's demands under threat of losing this outrageous plan: perform to the best of his ab111ty all of the Federal contracts. CONGRESS SOUNDED OUT ON TIES WITH duties devolving upon him as a committee­ Mr. Speaker, John F. Kennedy was HUNGARY man, and that he will support the programs elected President by the people of the The State Department thinks the time may he is called upon to administer. United States because the majority be­ be right for resuming full diplomatic rela­ My resolution would also amend the lieved he had the qualities of leadership tions with Communist Hungary and is Soil Conservation and Domestic Allot­ sounding out key Members of Congress to see essential to our survival in this nuclear if they agree. ment Act to bar the Secretary from re­ decade. I implore you, Mr. President, to The means is an informal memoranduxn quiring any statements, either verbal or justify the faith your fellow citizens being circulated among members of the Sen­ written, from any farmer-elected com­ placed in you, to assume the role of lead­ ate Foreign Relations Committee and the mitteeman or alternate committeeman, ership a strong and free nation expects House Foreign Affairs Committee. It con­ pledging their loyalty, allegiance, or sup­ and to which the people are entitled, to tends the Hungarian Government has been port to any farm program or proposal of refrain from making impulsive decisions relaxing its oppressive rule. the national administration, nor shall based on expediency, and to set forth in Among the recent developments cited-a any such committeeman be discharged March 21 amnesty that the Department esti­ strong and forceful language a domestic mates freed 3,000 to 4,000 people, and efforts for any reason, other than for cause as and foreign policy within the frame­ by the Kadar government to work out "some provided by this section. work of the Constitution and the tradi­ sort of accommodation" with the Roman The committeemen are elected by tions upan which this free Nation was Catholic Church. their own neighbors and are not founded and has grown to its present SANCTION UNNEEDED employed by anyone in the U.S. greatness. The United States has declined to send a Department of Agriculture. There is The President's returning to his cam­ top-ranking diplomat ~ Budapest since the ample existing authority to remove them paign pledges would be a beginning and bloody 1956 fighting which crushed an up­ for just cause, and moreover, farmers only a beginning. What we really need rising by the Hungarian people and put Pre­ themselves could oust any county com­ is a clearly understandable and under­ mier Janos Kadar in power. mitteeman who is not doing a satisfac­ stood domestic and foreign policy with Legally, congressional sanction is not re­ tory job by not reelecting him. It was long-range objectives based on the abid­ quired to restore full diplomatic relations with Hungary. However, the Department never intended by Congress the Secre­ ing principles of constitutional govern­ would be reluctant to take the step 1! it felt a tary of Agriculture should seek to in­ ment, the limited role of government storm of protest would erupt on Capitol Hill. timidate or coerce farmer-elected com­ known as the Republic within a democ­ mitteemen to support or oppose any racy which preserves capitalism with its CITE CULTURAL PARLEY One problem on which recent negotiations specific farm theory or program. In individual freedom and the sovereignty have been reported between the Kadar re­ fact, Congress has traditionally estab­ of the United States. gime and the Vatican has been freedom for lished and supported a policy of inde­ Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty. He took refuge pendence and separation of power for CONGRESS SOUNDED OUT ON TIES in the U.S. Legation at the time of the revo­ such committeemen. Secretary Free­ lution and has lived there since. man, by administrative order, would now WITH HUNGARY Apart from the amnesty and the effort to compel these farmer-elected committee­ Mr. STINSON. Mr. Speaker, r ask improve relations with the church, the Kadar men to become an integral part of the unanimous consent to address the House government, the memorandum said, has for 2 years "followed a conciliatory policy to­ administration propaganda team, re­ for 1 minute, to revise and extend my ward the intellectual and cultural commu­ quiring them to support programs which remarks and include an article. nity in Hungary," adding: they, and the farm neighbors who The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there "More United States and Western movies elected them, might fiatly oppose. objection to the request of the gentleman are being shown in Hungary than in any It is one thing to pledge fair and from Washington? other Soviet bloc country except Poland. honest performance of duty, but quite There was no objection. Passport and visa restrictions have been re­ laxed to permit a comparatively large in­ another to take an oath to support pro­ Mr. STINSON. Mr. Speaker, in read­ crease of travel from Hungary to the West grams advocated by Secretary Free­ ing the Evening Star last night, I noted and from the West to Hungary. man, or any successor. You can imagine an article in which the State Depart­ "There is wide agreement among observers a farmer committeeman's dilemma if a ment proposes to sen out the freedom that Hungarians today can express them­ new Secretary of Agriculture with other fighters of Hungary, who once fought selves with a latitude unusual in the Soviet ideas were appointed. Certain provi­ and died so valiantly in the streets of bloc." sions of the Freeman oath are ap­ Budapest. The State Department is There also have been relaxations of Red parently confiicting, for it would be im­ sending up a trial balloon to get the re­ economic restrictions on Hungarian peasants, possible at all times fairly and honestly the memorandum reported, and the Kadar to action of Congress to the restoration of regime has achieved "some degree of auton­ perform if a committeeman supported a diplomatic relations with the butchers omy in its relationship with Moscow." Freeman program as suggested by the of Budapest. USDA hierarchy in Washington. The The logic behind the State Depart­ USDA propaganda barrage preceding the ment's proposal 1s absurd. Are we to WHAT PRICE LOYALTY? May 21 wheat referendum has con­ resume diplomatic relations with this Mr. DOLE. Mr. Speaker, I ask unan­ tained half-truths, but in accordance Communist government simply because imous consent to address the House for 1 with the Freeman oath a committeeman 8526 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE May 14 would have a solemn duty to support his Agriculture on March 1, 1963 (volume 38, of this bill, I also hope that in the course program by fully utilizing all USDA Number 42, Federal Register, page 1979) of consideration by the Committee on propaganda. Many committeemen favor reading as follows ls hereby rescinded: Ways and Means we will go even further "Provided, however, That before any such Freeman programs but are opposed to county committeeman or alternate county and will find, within the reference of tactics employed by the USDA. Frankly, committeeman may take office he shall sign existing legislation, other ways to com­ I have the highest regard for the farmer­ a pledge that he will faithfully, fairly, and bat this serious problem. It appears to elected committeeman system and, in my honestly perform to the best of his ability me that the injury provisions might be opinion, this ridiculous oath insults the all of the duties devolving on him as a com­ strengthened by requiring the Tariff intelligence and integrity of farmers re­ mitteeman, and that he will support the pro­ Commission to make a finding of injury quired to sign it. grams he is called upon to administer."; and to the domestic industry if imports of "(2) Section 8(b) of the Soll Conservation I can find no precedent for this loyalty and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended, ls foreign goods accounted for 10 percent oath promulgated by Freeman. The amended by adding at the end of the first or more of our domestic sales of that House of Representatives requires of its paragraph the following new sentence: type of goods. own employees an affidavit to the effect "'Notwithstanding any other provision of Adoption of this legislation will be a they do not advocate overthrow of the law, the Secretary of Agriculture shall not step forward in solving this difficult Government and will not strike against require any statements, either verbal or writ­ problem of dumping. the Government. There is the oath to ten, from any fa.nner-elected committeeman support and defend the Constitution of or alternate committeeman, pledging their loyalty, allegiance, or support to any farm MERLIN DIVISION, ROGUE RIVER the United States taken by all Govern­ program or proposal of the national ad­ ment employees. The National Defense ministration, nor shall any such committee­ BASIN PROJECT, OREGON Education Act of 1958 requires a similar man be discharged for any reason, ' other Mr. DUNCAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask oath from students participating in its than for cause as provided by this section.'" unanimous consent to address the House loan program, but there is no evidence for 1 minute and to revise and extend my that any agency has ever required its remarks. employees to sign an oath to follow the ANTIDUMPING AMENDMENT The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there leader even though he might be wrong. objection to the request of the gentleman If the Freeman concept of absolute Mr. KNOX. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani­ from Oregon. ideological loyalty should be adopted by mous consent to address the House for 1 There was no objection. other agencies, Mortimer Caplin might minute and to revise and extend my Mr. DUNCAN. Mr. Speaker, I have require of all Internal Revenue Service remarks. today introduced a bill to authorize the agents an oath to work for limitation The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there Secretary of the Interior to construct, of charitable deductions and other re­ objection to the request of the gentleman operate and maintain the Merlin division, forms suggested by Caplin;, Secretary from Michigan? Rogue River Basin project in the State Celebrezze might demand from each There was no objection. of Oregon. Companion legislation is HEW employee a signed pledge of sup­ Mr. KNOX. Mr. Speaker, I am today being introduced in the other body today port for medicare financed through introducing legislation which will amend by the Senators from Oregon. social security; Newton Minow's minions and strengthen the Antidumping Act of I have been informed that the report within. the Federal Communications 1921. Many Members are aware of the by the Bureau of Reclamation on this Commission-even those who surrepti­ difficulties being experienced by some of proposed project is now on the desk of tiously watch the TV westerns-might our domestic industries which can be the Secretary of the Interior for final be required under oath to view only cul­ traced at least in part to dumping in this approval, and that it will probably be tural programs. And what of the De­ country by foreign manufacturers. transmitted to the Congress very soon. fense Department? Ponder the fate of One point that should be kept in mind I am hopeful that the Interior Commit­ the bureaucrat who preferred to believe concerning the Antidumping Act is that tees of both bodies will be able to give that Boeing, not General Dynamics, this act is not basically a tariff law im­ early consideration to this authorization. should have received the TFX contract. posing restrictions upon international The development of the Rogue River It seems we have arrived at a point trade. It is designed to promote a free, Basin in my congressional district is a where Congress needs to rescue Mr. but fair competition, just as the anti­ matter of the highest priority to the Freeman from himself before he sug­ trust laws are designed to promote the residents of the area. This particular gests putting farmer-elected ASC com­ same thing in the domestic sphere. Its project has a most favorable ratio of mitteemen in special uniforms. purpose is to prevent producers in for­ benefits to cost and is certain, in the eign countries from selling their prod­ long run, to return its original invest­ The resolution is as follows: ucts in this country at prices lower than H.J. RES. 412 ment many times over, part of it directly those at which they sell in their home in payments to the Federal Treasury and Joint resolution to prohibit the Secretary of markets. Agriculture from requiring loyalty pledges part of it indirectly in long-term benefits of farmer-elected agricultural stabilization From the domestic producers' point of to the area in irrigation, flood control, and conservation committeemen view there are two serious deficiencies in conservation and recreation. Whereas county and local agricultural the Antidumping Act, as it is now writ­ Mr. Speaker, I am proud to sponsor stabilization and conservation committee­ ten. The first is the delay in procuring this legislation. I would like to include men are farmers elected to their offices by determinations on an antidumping com­ in the RECORD at this point the text of fa.nners in their local communities; and plaint. My bill attacks this problem by a release issued from my office in con­ Whereas such committeemen are not em­ imposing a time limit of 6 months on nection with the introduction of the bill. ployed by the United States Government; Treasury proceedings on antidumping Congressman ROBERT B. DUNCAN, Demo­ and complaints. The second problem faced crat, of Oregon, today May 14, introduced a Whereas such committeemen have for by a domestic producer is that of proving bill in the House of Representatives to au­ many years provided administrative con­ injury. One section of my bill would thorize the Secretary of the Interior to con­ tinuity during the terms of offices of a num­ require the Secretary of the Treasury to struct and operate the Merlin division of ber of different Secretaries of Agriculture; aggregate complaints regarding the the Rogue River Basin project. The bill was and introduced simultaneously by Senators Whereas section 503 of the Agricultural Act dumping of the same class or kind of WAYNE MORSE and MAURINE NEUBERGER . of 1954, as amended, specifically prohibits merchandise. The Treasury now sends DUNCAN said the principal works of the the Secretary from imposing any limitation cases to the Tariff Commission on a division would consist of Sexton dam and upon the number of terms for which mem­ country-by-country basis, which in many reservoir, diversion and distribution facilities, bers ot county committees may be reelected; cases makes proving injury difficult. and drainage facilities. The completed proj­ and This legislation represents a needed ect would provide irrigation water for ap­ Whereas Congress has traditionally and step forward in solving the difficult prob­ proximately 9,300 acres. It would also pro­ historically established and supported a vide for fiood control, conservation and policy of administrative independence and lems facing our domestic producers in development of fish and wildlife, and would separation of power for such committees: trying to meet the unfair competition provide · for recreation benefits. Be it · which is thrust upon them when foreign The bill authorizes an appropriation of Resolved, That: products are dumped in the- United $14,750,000, DUNCAN said. 1. The proviso in section 7 .18 of the regu­ States. I feel strongly on this matter; Reimbursable coots of the project would lations promulgated by the Secretary of and in addition to wholehearted support be repaid over an extended period of 50 19'63 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD·- -HOUSE 8527 years. However, DUNCAN pointed out that for 1 minute and to revise and extend my rights of our fellow men behind the Iron certain costs of the undertaking would not remarks. Curtain would be free to vote to sweep be repaid and these would include costs of the question under the rug. investigation, planning, operati9n, and ;main­ The SPEAKER pro temPore. Is there tenance plus an appropriate share of the objection to the request of the gentleman joint costs of the project. from Connecticut? There was no objection. UNEQUAL RIGHTS PREFERENCE Mr. MONAGAN. Mr. Speaker, I was BU.L SMOKESCREENS GRAB TO EMERGENCY COMMITTEE FOR U.N. pleased to hear the remarks of the gen­ CONTROL NATION'S. KILOWATTS ACTION ON HUNGARY tlewoman from New York [Mrs. ST. Mr. HOSMER. Mr. Speaker, ask GEORGE}, and I subscribe fully to what I Mrs. ST. GEORGE. Mr. Speaker, I unanimous consent to extend my remarks ask unanimous consent to address the she has said. at this point in the RECORD. House for 1 minute, to revise and extend The current decision of our delegation The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there my remarks, and to include a telegr~m. at the U.N. to abstain on the issue of ap­ objection to the request of the gentleman The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there proving the credentials of the Hungarian from California? objection to the request of the gentle­ delegation is one that friends of the There was no objection. woman from New York? captive nations of Europe will view with Mr. HOSMER.. Mr. Speaker • .today There was no objection. deep misgivings. the Irrigation and Reclamation Subcom­ Mrs. ST. GEORGE. Mr. Speaker, I The U.N. has already terminated the mittee began hearings on S. 1007 and hold in my hand a telegram from Mr. mission of Sir Leslie Munro which orig­ related House bills aimed at legislating Christopher Emmet, who is on the inally was charged with the duty of in­ a superpreference over U.S.-generated Emergency Committee for U.N. Action vestigating the situation in Hungary power benefiting public bodies and pri­ on Hungary. It is my opinion that the subsequent to the suppresssion of the vate corporations in the Pacific North­ Members of the House will be interested revolt in order to determine whether or west. Ostensibly this unequal rights in having this information. He has sent not democratic processes had been elim­ legislation is designed to protect the mo­ this telegram, I believe, to a few other inated in that country. Instead of the nopoly on low-cost, subsidized public Members. Munro mission, this resposibility was power enjoyed by the Pacific Northwest's Mr. Speaker, I read the telegram, as transferred to Secretary U Thant. Now favored class for the last quarter of a follows: it appears that we are withdrawing from century. In this geographical area $1.7 MAY 14, 1963. the fight on another issue. billion of U.S. taxpayers' money has Representative KATHERINE ST. GEORGE, I would be the first to admit that there House Office Building, Washington, D.O.: been poured out of the Federal Treasury Have sent following telegram to Secre­ is a process of change going on in Hun­ for construction of the hydroelectric tary Rusk and Under Secretary of State gary a:id in others of the Captive Na­ projects, transmission lines, and other Harriman. Hope you will make similar tions of Europe. I recognize, too, that public properties of the Government's appeal: some of the elements of this change are Bonneville Power Administration. In "We are deeply alarmed by State Depart­ moving in the direction of greater free­ ment memorandum forecasting change U.S. this area public power bodies, spawned dom of religious worship and the resto­ by the attraction of cheap power, in policy on Hungary in United Nations, based ration of the rights of individuals. On on Hungarian amnesty. Memorandum many cases subsidized by bargain base­ admits real scope of amnesty unknown. the other hand, the scope of the change ment 2-percent interest REA loans, and Moreover, amnesty does not affect substance is unclear and the specific extent of the spoonfed by State and Federal tax ex­ of U.N. resolutions on Hungary. amnesty granted to political prisoners emptions,· plus other largess from the "Last December when U.S. resolution was is by no means definite. public purse, have been the constant passed by U.N. Assembly ending Sir Leslie I submit that we should have a better beneficiaries of a modern-day distortion Munros mission. Members of Congress and idea of what we are talking about and of the Robin Hood philosophy. citizens groups were assured that this in­ what the scope of change in Hungary volved no change in U.S. policy. Now, by the terms of S. 1007 that phi­ "There have been no important· develop­ really is before we back down further on losophy is not. any more, just the old ments in Hungary, aside from the amnesty, a matter of principle. I personally do Socialist hocus-pocus of "take it from since then. Yet the reported intention of not have enough facts to warrant any the rich and give it to the poor." Now the U.S. Government not to oppose ac­ change of attitude. that philosophy, by force of Federal leg­ ceptance of Kadar delegates credentials at I call attention to one other matter islative fiat, is to be "take it from both Assembly session opening today, represents which is worthy of notice in this con­ abrupt and fundamental U.S. policy reversal. the rich and the poor in the rest of the "Moreover, this change would be made nection. There is' a strange double country and give it to anybody in the with only 24 hours notice to American public standard extant in the matter of colo­ Pacific Northwest, including corporations and Congress. In view of past assurances by nialism. Some of our officials seem to die smart. enough to locate high power con­ authorized spokesmen, we respectfully sub­ a thousand deaths whenever the Com­ suming plants i_n Oregon and Washing­ mit that this would amount to a breach of munists talk critically of our association ton." faith of which we are sure you are not aware. with allies, such as Portugal, which still Notwithstanding almost three-quar­ "Moreover, it would breach precedents maintain colonies. They are quick to established at all previous sessions of Gen­ ters of a century's precedent for allowing eral Assembly, which never considered chang­ disclaim any intention on our part of public bodies preference in the purchase ing credentials decision arrived at by a previ­ contributing to the maintenance of of power generated in U.S. taxpayer ous regular session. The widespread reports colonialism. Prominent in this attack financed facilities, S. 1007, in effect, says that U.S. plans to abstain on this credentials on colonialism are the new African · these public bodies now shall come sec­ issue this week for first time amounts to countries. ond to both public bodies close to the inviting Communists to raise this issue. It is, indeed, strange however that generation facilities and private com­ "If such action ls planned we earnestly appeal to you to reverse it now. The the.:e same countries are the very ones panies close to them, too. Hungarian issue has stirred conscience of which now apparently refuse to support At a time in U.S. history when equal American people more deeply than any other the firmness of the United States on the rights is hotter than the proverbial $2 question since war in which U.S. interests question of the Communist colonialism pistol, electricity consuming citize:i~ are were not directly involved. If U.S. which is now being practiced with white going to be made second-class c1t1zens policy is to be changed we urge that it be countries in Europe. · unless they live in the shadow of electric done after fair chance for public debate not I recognize that to some extent the with only 24 hours warning." generators paid for by their Federal tax CHRISTOPHER EMMET, question of the credentials of the Hun­ dollars. If this were happening in Bir­ Emergency Committee for U.N. Action garian delegation is an academic one, mingham, Ala., there would have been on Hungary. since the delegation is presently sitting parades and fire hoses all around the and voting. At the same time this, too, subcommittee's hearing this morn­ is an important matter of principle and ing. If the Kremlin had any interest in APPROVING CREDENTIALS OF THE I would prefer that the United States it we would have a "Women's Strike for HUNGARIAN DELEGATION TO vote on principle even if that meant Kilowatts" descending on the Capitol. THE U.N. being on the losing side, while those But this is just a supposedly small Mr. MONAGAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask countries who have become bored, or matter of the fiscal rape of a few tens of unanimous consent to address the House fatigued, at the task of supporting the millions of U.S. taxpayers, so hardly a 8528 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE May 14 ripple crosses the congressional sea. I plication of Parkinson's first law on just grab the handle, the bad guys have suppose things of this sort have become the self-proliferation of bureaucracy. had it and you are in control. so commonplace today that it arouses Whatever the reason, observers of the About that time your -semianonymous but slight indignation in the public at Interior Department and its Bureau of lawyer comes in with more fuel for the large. Nevertheless, it has me consid­ Reclamation particularly, and depart­ fan. He tells you that if the Govern­ erably bothered. Perhaps this is because ments and agencies and commissions in ment builds these regional interties you I happen to be close to it and because Washington generally, cannot but see a have been thin.king about as the way to large numbers of the citizens of the State constant management of things aimed grab control, it will be selling power all I am privileged to have a part in repre­ at grasping more and more electric kilo­ along the line. Knowing the situation senting will be victims of the crime. watts to use as stones for so well, you immediately see its danger­ Perhaps it arouses fighting instincts in building the zestful life. ous implications. Your public power me been.use I have been hearing so much Closer observation of the process of supporting in areas of origin of Federal equal treatment lipservice around town pulling power away from the people and kilowatts will now have competition from for the last couple of years that I believe their elected representatives into the your public power supporters in non­ it actually should apply to everybody, hands of semianonymous bureaucracy origin areas. Yikes, the preference peo­ even when there is not a Kennedy vote reveals a real workable system for doing ple you have counted on to lobby solidly mixed up in it somehow. Maybe all this it. The system revolves around getting for your transmission line appropriations is even because I am an anachronism or large numbers of voters in key States a will now be fighting amongst each other some kind of a non-Ivy League nut or constantly increasing vested interest in tor your bargain electricity. something. I did not go to Harvard or Federal power. You pick States with You shake and tremble. You will be MIT and even am a little happy about it. relative small populations, their Senators hearing more from all of them and en­ Nobody ever taught me that private cor­ have the same vote as any others. You joying it less. You will be enjoying it porations and private citizens living in give them the vested interest by building less from the powerful political forces Washington and Oregon are better and Federal generators there and giving pub­ who do not want massacre raids on their should be more favored than anybody lic bodies preference on their output and traditional regional monopoly on cheap else. They did not even hint that other pricing it low. You encourage multipli­ power. You will be enjoying it less from Americans, including you and me, ought cation of public bodies by exempting the powerful political forces who want to shell out for the light bills and the them from taxes and granting them to cut themself in on some other region's power bills of this superpreferred, supe­ loans at giveaway rates. In little or no cheap power, now that it is technically rior, better than you and me, nondeseg­ time you can depend on a solid -phalanx possible. You have a giant rethink job regated master class. Neither did they of powerful lobbies to work day and to do. If you do not do it right and get teach me that semianonymous bureau­ night to make sure ample appropriations the warring factions back arm-in-arm crats in the Department of the Interior are passed to keep the ball rolling. Every behind your transmission line appropria­ ought to be granted their craving for kilowatt counts in this game and you tions, the bad guys will build the lines czardom over the Nation's electric energy can multiply them pretty fast with that and you will have had it. It will be an resources. I am glad about this, too, kind of political support. Even so, the ignominious way to expire, too, because however it may upset those semianony­ free enterprise system is just so darn former allies will have helped put the mous inheritors of the Harold Ickes' de­ workable that the private enterprise torch to your plans. The public groups lusion of operating the C'Ountry from that guys somehow keep building up kilowatts of regions afraid of the massacre raids great block-square marble temple the too. So you really have to keep on your will do all they can to promote the Old Curmudgeon managed to have semianonymous bureaucratic toes. You private interties, simply because the F.D.R. put in the WPA program. must think not only about out-kilowatt­ private lines will insulate them from Of course, the story I am telling must ing the bad guys, but about how to grab preference demands of public bodies out­ be heard with an understanding of the some kind of control over their kilowatts, side their region. foregoing. It comes from someone too. Even though you had good luck After long, agonizing, aspirinizing re­ whose ancestors fled Europe to get away driving them out of the TVA area back appraisal, you come up with your master from the awesome dictation of central­ in the 1930's and 1940's, getting at them plan. You haul in the Secretary of the ized executive power. It comes from on a national scale is lots tougher. You Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture someone whose public ethics are what a do know kilowatts have to be moved from their 50-mile hikes long enough to Presidential adviser calls "puritanical." from the generators to the consumers, so sign a new joint regulation. This makes It comes from someone who really be­ you get smart and try to figure some way private interties crossing Federal land lieves Americans have enough sense and to grab control over the transmission subject to a condition that any excess courage and ability and even a natural lines and make those private enterprise wheeling capacity must be made avail­ right to take a major part in determin­ guys do business under your regulations able to the Federal Government. This ing their destiny. So it is just possible and according to your terms. Then you takes away from private interties their this speech may be coming 50 or 75 or will have them by the balance sheet. feature insulating a region from outside 100 yearr; too late. I hope not, but it You are semianonymously sitting in preferred demands because Federal pow­ sure is a possibility. Every time I hear your semianonymous office in the Ickes er can be sold direct to the customer even the latest word from Stewart Udall and Temple figuring out how to do this by over private interties. You have pulled the White House I have a feeling the moving Interior and the Federal Power the rug out from under the public bodies possibility is more and more real. Commission in on short haul transmis­ who were starting to see a protective Now, back to the story to be told: sion lines when some scientific and en­ virtue for their regional interest in the Once upon a time, a long while ago, gineering types throw a large banana private interties. They no longer have somebody who worked for the Govern­ in your semianonymous electric fan. any place else to go. They will have to ment in Washington became intrigued They come up with new long haul trans­ come back to you. You sweeten things with the idea of the zestful living sub­ mission technology. Instead of wheeling up by announcing big plans for enough stantial control over a country's energy electric power only 300 or 400 miles, now Federal kilowatts for all the preferred in resources .:>:fiered anyone who grabbed it. they make it possible to transmit it over order to hasten the return of the Since it is no secret the Constitution a thousand miles. It now becomes feasi­ prodigals. fixes such powers in the people and their ble to tie together the various regional ·Next, you shut up the noisiest and most elected representatives, that document is power pools of the country into one na­ politically powerful regional public pow­ an obstacle, but not an insurmountable tional power grid. If you are not going er group, that one out in the Pacific Northwest. In response to your reliable one to those seeking the zestful way of to shift from semianonymous to really hypnotic suggestions, Stewart Udall tells life. Some charge that those so seeking anonymous, you have to rethink the Congress to give them their regional are members of a Fabian socialist plot. whole problem and come up with a way super preference. You have him tell the Some people say . it is just a typical to control the national grid. As you remaining, second class, nonequal psychosis of anyone who feeds at the think about it, the possibilities become righted regions to shut up, get back in public trough long enough to get into the really intriguing. Here is an op­ line, put their lobbies back to work, get middle and top echelons of bureaucracy. portunity, finally, to get all the Nation's appropriations for Federal interties, and Others say it just is the accelerated ap- kilowatts in one basket and if you can generators, boost FPC control over pri- 1963 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 8529 vate lines-and then they will get theirs, Considering the great potential wealth ing a recent press conference, His Imperial of Africa and the restless drive of her Majesty declared that the purpose of the too. conference could be reduced to three salient You are very smart, in your semi­ people to make up for the years that are points: anonymous way, so all this is timed and lost, I envision in the not too far away First, to speed independence for terri­ executed real good. The right speeches future an African nation that will be one tories still in a subservient position; second­ are made at the right places. The mim­ of the great world powers. I know many ly, to exchange views on joint problems, such eograph machine is managing the news· of the African leaders, and I have con­ as raising the peoples' living standards and with a barrage of press releases, all is fidence in their intelligence, their dedi­ improving conditions in the fields of econ­ going fine. The Senate was a breeze. cation to their tasks and their determi­ omy, culture and politics; thirdly, drawing nation not to permit the colonialism of of an African charter for unity. You got the super-preference, second That the impending summit is historic is class region unequal rights PNW bill communism to entrap them. surely beyond question. Although called on through without any trouble at all. Now, On the eve of the convening of a 32- the Government level, it ls certain that many if all goes according to plan, you will do nation African summit meeting in Addis other levels of African corporate organiza­ the same thing with the House. Ababa, Ethiopia, I am happy · as the tions will be represented. True, observers After that all you have to do is bit-by­ chairman of the Subcommittee on from dependent Africa will have carte bit-about $1 billion a bit-get some $8 Africa, for myself and I believe for all blanche, because, as His Majesty the Em­ billion out of the U.S. Treasury to build the members of the subcommittee, to ex­ peror clearly stated, one of the many ob­ tend every good wish to the 32 African jectives of the May summit will be con­ the regional interties needed to put the cerned with the complete emancipation of national power grid together. nations in their search for a blueprint the continent. That is all it takes to bring to reality for a future of continental development It was not coincidental that the Emperor your dream of a zestful life of power. to assure by united effort the rapid and placed first on the list the subject of de­ Electric power. Political power. Eco­ orderly attainment of worthy objectives. colonization. "To speed the attainment of nomic power. Almost any other kind of Mr. Speaker, this summit meeting at independence of those areas in the continent power you can think of. Czar Udall will Addis Ababa, starting on May 22 is one that are still in a state of dependency," was of the tremendously important events of the categoric statement made to the press. rule it all, but you will rule Czar Udall All too evident, if the African summit is to and all his successors. Insofar as the the times. I have just received a copy achieve the broad aims that are pertinent United States of America can be ruled of the oversea release of the Associated to its terms of reference, the stamping out and dominated by the control of its elec­ Negro Press, of Chicago, and I am ex­ of colonialism must be one of the vital plans tric power resources, you will rule it be­ tending my remarks to include from the in its platform. cause you will be exercising that control material in this release an article by The Emperor and many other leading Afri­ and exercising it tightly. Moreover, the David A. Talbot. can statesmen have repeatedly voiced the time span of your control will be unlim­ TALBOT'S LONG AND RICH BACKGROUND idea that no independent state in Africa could feel secure in its independence while ited. You do not have to run for office Mr. Ta.lbot is a veteran of nearly 30 other areas of the continent remain in a. every 2 or 4 or 6 years. So long as you years as correspondent on the African colonialist status. For the summit to be keep your nose clean and keep yourself scene. worth the effort, ways and means must be semianonymous, Civil Service regula­ Born in British Guiana, Talbot took elaborated to assist the African freedom tions will permit you to enjoy your zest­ his B.A. and M.A. degrees at New York fighters in their struggle for independence. ful way of life for a long, long time. University, then traveled extensively By and large, the mere meeting of all the To those who hear or read this speech independent African States is a bold. stroke throughout Europe and Africa. After in the field of African unity. If a sign were and conclude that I am disgusted and serving as editor of the African, monthly needed to indicate the purposefulness of the bitter, let me say these few words of devoted to African thought and opinion, African heads of states, surely the May sum­ reassurance: You are 100 percent right. he joined the War Labor Board as a mit is clear and unequivocal. What is being perpetrated in the Sub­ junior economist before taking up over­ In his statement to the press, in which committee on Irrigation and Reclama­ seas work in Ethiopia, where he has per­ the Emperor gave a broad outline of why tion today is to my mind one of the most formed notably in several capacities. such a meeting has been called, he said: :flagrant examples of the self.:.mutilation Talbot first went to Ethiopia in 1934, "For the first time in the continent's his­ of the principles and philosophy of de­ tory, one of the points in the purpose of the with the late Colonel John C. Robinson, summit ls to lay basic foundations for unity, mocracy the world has ever seen. The American Negro air ace who served as to exchange views that will help to resolve pity is that this Nation is not seeing it at pilot to Haile Selassie, taking the Em­ common problems so that the standard of all, yet it is there to see . in all its peror on trips to the Ethiopian front living of our peoples could be raised and so masochistic magnitude. after the Italian invasion in 1936. Tal­ that ways and means of improving the eco­ bot has maintained residence in Ethi­ nomic, cultural, and political aspects of life of the continent could be provided." opia since the middle 1930's. The May summit, constituting as it wm, AFRICAN SUMMIT MEETING In 1946, Talbot founded the American the most important conclave of its kind ·in Mr. O'HARA of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, Institute, which he continues to direct. the history of the continent, will bring to­ I ask unanimous consent to extend my Under his editorship, the Ethiopian gether ideas, problems, plans, and aspira­ remarks at this point in the RECORD and Herald has become the leading Eng~ish­ tions of more than 200 million persons. The include extraneous matter. language daily. Formerly press consul­ heads of states also represent the various sec­ tant to the Imperial Ethiopian Ministry tions and areas of the continent. As such, it The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there will provide a springboard for practical and objection to the request of the gentleman of Information, he is now adviser on forthright proposals concerning the problems from Illinois? English publications. He has secured that face the 32 nations and the continent as There was no objection. 50 scholarships enabling Ethiopian stu­ a whole. Mr. O'HARA of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, dents to study abroad, and 30 of these Beyond question, these problems are many; I have said many times that as Africa students, now returned, are filling im­ without doubt, many of them strike at the goes so will go the world. I cannot re­ portant posts in government and na­ very heart of the nations• existence as sov­ peat that often enough. tional life. ereign states. And since each nation cannot Mr. Talbot's article follows: but cherish and safeguard its hard-won inde­ The shortest crossing of the Atlantic pendence, it is readily obvious that they must Ocean is from Liberia in Africa to Brazil EMPEROR HAILE SELASSIE'S VIEWS use the unique opportunity afforded by the in South America. This should empha­ (By David A. Talbot) summit to their best advantage. size how closely knitted are the Western ADDIS ABABA.-Wha t are some of the aims Africa has had a slow start and must dou­ Hemisphere and the Continent of Africa. of the historic 32-nation African summit ble its efforts to gain the time lost. The African nations comprise a third meeting which will be held here May 22- There are, therefore, frontiers in every of the membership of the General As­ 25? field of human progress that must be con­ sembly of the United Nations. Thfs Many people in all parts of the world, quered. How to do this wlll be one of the should emphasize how important it is to filled with anticipation as to what will be principal challenges facing · the meeting. the nature of the summit, are asking this Africa is, as it were, engaged in a series of our i'nterest that there should be. mutual question. crusades, none of which could be carried sympathetic understanding of the aims Emperor Haile Selassie, in his official role on successfully singlehandedly. · and aspirations of our people and th_e as host, has thrown a great deal of light This points to the stubborn fact that aft~r . aims and aspirations of the peoples of on the approaching .African heads of sta.t~s independence the next step is interde­ Africa. conference. In a timely intervention dur- pendence. And for this to be more than a 8530 CONGRESSIONAL -RECORD - HOUSE May 14 mere slogan, as the Emperor told the press 3. The reported recent proposal of Ghana's Lagos Conference of African heads of conference, foundations for the prosecution President Kwame Nkrumah for an all-African state. His article follows: of common beneficial aims must be laid organization involving a legislature (parlia­ down. The summit will therefore strive to ment) and other federal institutions. Thirty-two African countries, which dur­ initiate a modus operandi as a guideline to Most students of African a1fairs in the U.S. ing the past score of years have won their effective continental cooperation in all majoo; Capital feel it is too early to guess exactly freedom from colonization and white Euro­ fields. what will emerge from the Addis Ababa Con­ pean domination, are scheduled to have their A universal charter for Africa is therefore ference in terms of an approach to organi­ leaders gather together at Addis Ababa, envisioned. The story of the search for uni­ zation. Ethiopia, May 23 to 25. A week earlier, the fied and effective action is now well known. The seven regional groupings, listed alpha­ foreign ministers and their staffs of experts The Casablanca, Monrovia, and Malagasy betically, are: met in the same city to decide on the issues trials have been. proven fragmentary. In 1. The African and Malagasy Union. The to be discussed and to draw up an agenda. them all, however, are to be found proposals 13 members are Cameroun, Central African The title of "Summit Meeting" is being and principles that could be woven into an Republic, Chad, Congo (Brazzaville), Da­ tossed at the gathering. Although, to call acceptable pattern. This, I believe, ls the homey, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Malagasy Repub­ it a conference, where the various leaders reason why the date for the beginning of the lic, Mauritania, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, and with their differing personalities, back­ Foreign Ministers Conference was advanced. Upper Volta. All were formerly under French grounds and languages can get better ac­ In moving toward an enlarged community rule except Rwanda, which with Burundi quainted and find a basis upon which to there are problems, some known and others formed the Belgian-administered United Na­ thrash out the main problems facing all unforeseen. A universal African charter tions trusteeship of Ruanda-Urundi. The African nations today, might be more could act as a compass to meet some prob­ UAM (the organization's French initials) appropriate. lems and to avoid others. Close consulta­ maintains a permanent Secretariat at the Efforts to bring these leaders together are tion and collaboration will be necessary. United Nations. not new. There have been half a dozen more As his Majesty the Emperor said: "To 2. Casablanca charter states: The six mem­ or less formal attempts of this sort. construct the necessary machinery for con­ ber nations are Algeria, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Among these were: tacts among heads of states" would be one Morocco, and the United Arab Republic. The Casablanca Conference, with five of the positive results of the May summit. 3. Council of the Entente: Members are countries attending, was held in Morocco, It seems to me that with sobriety and Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Niger, and Upper January 1961, at which the Arab influence healthy give and take the African heads of Volta. was felt; the Monrovia Conference, called by states could expect to lay the groundwork 4. The East African Common Services Or­ President William V. S. Tubman, of Liberia, for a period of constructive cooperation on ganization: The three members are Kenya, in May 1961, and attended by 21 states; and a continental level in several basic areas. Uganda and Tanganyika with partial Zanzi­ the Lagos Conference, a followup meeting They are expected "to elaborate procedures bar participation. An outgrowth of the Brit­ of the Monrovia gathering, in January 1962, by which the independent African States ish colonial administration which has been with 19 nations represented. could advance toward mutually beneficial Africanized, its present functions are eco­ Perhaps one of the first such meetings was goals and to safeguard their security." nomic but may form the basis for some type the First Conference of Independent Afri­ Matters not from what angle the May of political federation following Kenya and can States, held at Accra in Aprll 1958, and summit is viewed, it is clear that it will Zanzibar's independence, expected by the end attended by eight nations. The Second Con­ mark a significant turning point in the his­ of the year. ference of Independent African States was tory of Africa. There is work to be don~. 5. Equatorial states: Members are Central held at Addis Ababa, in June 1960, attended and the African leaders, by this meeting, African Republic, Chad, Congo (Brazzaville), by 11 independent African States. have shown their awareness of the complex Gabon. The group has an effective common Another Accra Conference, in November tasks ahead and the need for concerted market with a common external tariff. 1958, launched President Kwame Nkrumah's action. 6. Inter-African and Malagasy Organiza­ idea of a Union of African States. Ghana The challenge calls for dedication, for it tion: The charter was initiated in December and Guinea proclaimed their union and were comes from a cause on which hangs the and ls expected to be signed at Addis Ababa later joined by Mali. The three states ap­ future not only of Africa but that of the on May 23. However, some observers believe proved a charter in May 1961. whole world. "A united Africa," declared it might never come into being if a Pan­ There have been meetings which were re­ the Emperor, "will not only win her deserved A!rican charter is signed in the Ethiopian gional or based on common language. For place in world councils, it will contribute capital. Member nations are Cameroun, Cen­ example, there was an East African Con­ remarkably to world peace and security." tral African Republic, Chad, Congo (Braz­ ference, attended by those states and terri­ Mr. Speaker, I am further extending zaville), Congo (Leopoldville), Dahomey, tories which avail themselves of the Com­ Ethiopia, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mala­ mon Services Organization, a group which my remarks to include another article gasy Republic, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, seeks to find common ground because it from the release of the Associated Negro Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Togo, Upper served the various countries with common Press, as follows: Volta. The original Monrovia group in­ technical skills needed by all of the areas PONDERING OUTCOME OF ADDIS .ABABA SUMMIT cluded Libya, Sudan, and Tunisia, both of represented. Other meetings have been held WASHINGTON.-Aware of the seven major which attended the initial May 1961 meet­ by the French-speaking countries, which regional groups in Africa with several states ing in Liberia. Congo (Leopoldvllle) , then have been functioning as a "community"; the having interlocking membership, observers in a state of turmoil, did not attend the African and Malagasy Union; and the Equa­ here in the U.S. Capital hold the impression Monrovia meeting. torial States Group, which contains some that the Addis Ababa conferees wm place 7. Pan African Freedom Movement for of the more recently recognized countries high on their list the question: How will the east, central and southern Africa (Paf­ which have won their freedom. 32 independent African nations organize mecsa). Membership: Ethiopia, somalia, Most of these groups have been seeking a themselves? Tanganyika, Uganda, Congo (Leopoldville) formula which will enable them to form The trend toward regionalism, as noted by and major African nationalist political par­ some sort of alliance which would permit a these observers, resulted in two rival blocs ties in non-self-governing territories. degree of cooperative economic effort whlle with different concepts of relations to the As the name implies, this body is devoted remaining separate from a purely govern­ former metropoles-the Casablanca states to the struggle for independence of the re­ mental standpoint. and the Monrovia states. However, it is fur­ maining African territories by assisting the Dr. Nkrumah has carried the idea a step ther noted that while these d-ifferences may organization of freedom parties, giving finan­ farther. It was his bold break from the continue to some degree, the emphasis on cial aid, and recommending policies such as dominance of England, in 1957, which continentwide unity is winning ground. economic sanctions against south Africa and sparked many of the efforts toward freedom This trend is evident since both the Casa­ Portugal and an appeal to the North At­ and from his beginning, he has sought an blanca and Monrovia groups are meeting un­ lantic Treaty Organization powers against all-African organization which might be tied der one -Ethiopia's Africa Hall. All the supplying arms to Portugal and providing together in some kind of federation. states heeded Emperor Halle Selassie's early scholarships to African political refugees. Most of the countries have seemed to shy bid for 100-percent attendance at the May CLAUDE BARNETT'S COMMENTS away from any really definite bond along summit talks. rigid political lines. Even Guinea and Mali, With regard to organization of the African Mr. Speaker, I am further extending which formed fo a. while a sort of trium­ States there are at least three types of pro­ my remarks to include the following ar­ virate with Ghana, are gradually seeking posals: ticle by Claude A. Barnett, director of the less binding relationships. 1. The Lagos Charter of December 22, Associated Negro Press, which he It has been interesting to observe the which looks toward a grouping of African founded at Chicago in 1919. He has leadership which has emerged from Ethi­ nations similar to the Organization of Amer­ opia and from which Emperor Haile Selassie ican States. maintained close personal relationships has issued the invitation to the current 2. Taking as a model of the Casablanca with African leaders since his first trip meeting. Selassie has been an outstanding Charter of 1961: A far closer unification of to the continent in 1947. In all he has leader at three of the conferences, serving states than envisaged by the Lagos Charter­ made 12 African tours, the most recent as host at two. The Ethiopian Emperor approaching a federation. in 1962 following attendance at the commands the respect of all the nations. 1963 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 8531 After all, hls is the oldest of all African At the same time, the Communists in Polish technicians, to be followed by So­ countries. Cuba, 1n the United States, and in Latin viet troops, armaments and nuclear mis­ I observed at the gathering of heads of America are building a hostile image of siles. states at Lagos, 16 months ago, the almost worshipful respect that was held tor him by Duvalier as a bloody-voodoo dictator. Mr. Speaker, President Duvalier is a other participants. He gave the keynote ad­ This propaganda is intended to create a sick man. dress, speaking in Amharic which bad to world opinion for the liquidation of He is surrounded by a cunningly orga­ be translated into English and French-an Duvalier. · nized network of Communist agents. exercise which consumed most of the A political vacuum would thus be cre­ They have isolated him from non-Com­ morning. ated. And, only the Communists are munist contacts. The Emperor's vie·ws undoubtedly laid a prepared to fill this political vacuum and platform for the younger nations to stand Who are these Communist agents? upon. In his first word, the Ethiopian seize political control of Haiti. Clovis Desinor was the former secre­ leader laid down the premise that be was This was the exact pattern used to de­ tary to Duvalier. He is a confirmed first, last and foremost an African and dedi­ stroy Batista and to create Castro's Communist. He is the No. 1 Communist cated to the advancement of all the nations Communist Cuba. in respect to influence over Duvalier. on the continent of Africa. The State Department and our Gov­ He is now a member of the , the The United States, Europe, Asia, the United ernment are fiddling and finagling while Minister of Commerce and Industry. Nations, and indeed, the rest of the world, the international Soviet-Communist Dr. Herve Boyer was brought into the wlll be watching this African Conference at forces are calculatingly coverting Haiti Addis Ababa as an indication of what ls Government by Desinor. Boyer is a going to happen to the peoples of the world's into a second Soviet satellite at our back French-trained Communist. His wife second largest continent and the part they door. is also a French Communist Party mem­ may be expected to play in the affairs of the In contrast to the realistic plans and ber. Boyer is also a member o! the Du­ world ln the foreseeable future. actions of the Communist Party, the U.S. valier Cabinet, Minister of Finance. STATISTICS ON AFRICAN STATES State Department has followed its nor­ Luckner Chambronne is another Com­ mal pollyanna policies. munist member of the Duvalier Cabinet. Here is a table showing the area and The present Communist influences population of the 32 African states at­ He is Minister for Public Works. He is around Duvalier are concrete proof of also the personal :financial adviser and tending the Addis Ababa summit, as the success of the Communist policies given in the release of the Associated secretary to President Duvalier. Negro Press: and the utter failure of the U.S. State Jules Blanchet is another French­ Department's policies, programs, and trained Communist. He is the repre­ diplomacy. sentative of the Haitian Govei.·nment in Area The U.S. military mission, military as­ Country (square Population Europe. He is charged with maintaining miles) sistance, economic, and technical aid contacts, and with bringing foreign mili­ have been a failure in Haiti, just as they tary and economic assistance to Haiti Algeria ______----____ _ 852,600 10,300,000 proved to be a failure in Cuba. from France, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Burundi __ ------­ 11, 000 3, 000,000 'l'he State Department has withdrawn Cameroun_ ------183, 381 4, 907, 000 military and economic aid from Haiti. and the Soviet. Central African Republic ______241,000 1, 227,000 Dr. Jacques Fourcand is a well-known Chad_------___ __------513, 600 2, 730, 000 This cutoff of funds drove Duvalier to Congo (Brazzaville) ______132, 046 795, 000 Communist. He is the personal phy­ Congo (Leopoldville) ______seek Communist assistance. The U.S. Dahomey ______905, 378 14, 150, 000 decision to withdraw aid was based upon sician to President Duvalier. He is also Ethiopia ______44,695 1, 934,000 443, 350 23,000,000 the misuse of these funds. Director of Social Welfare Bureau of the Gabon_------­ 103, 000 440, ()()() The State Department knew so little Department of Labor and Welfare. GuineaGhana_------______91, 943 6, 691, OGO Lucien Montas, another Communist, Ivory Coast______96,865 3,000,000 about Haiti, that they did not and do Liberia______127, 520 3, 300,0CO not today realize that U.S. aid has been is Director of the Political Division of the Libya ______43, 000 2, 750, 000 Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 679,400 1,400,000 purposely with malice aforethought sab­ Malagasy Republic (Madagas- otaged by the Communist o:tncials in the These men, backed and supported by car) ____ ------__ 228, 000 5,487, 000 Castro in Cuba, and the Communist Par­ Mall __ --__ ------465,000 4, 900, 000 Haiti Government. Mauritani11._ ------419, 000 727, 000 Mr. Speaker, the United States can ties of Europe, are the brains and brawn Morocco __ ------­ 172, 100 11, 600,000 behind the Communist influence over Niger_------494,000 2,870,000 no longer permit our State Department Nigeria ______-----______356, 669 42,000,000 to act as the general manager for the President Duvalier. These are the men Rwanda_------11, 000 2, 500,000 delivery of the free world to Soviet­ who are now in the process of delivering Senegal_------Sierra Leone ______80, 600 3, 300,000 27, 925 2, 600,000 Communist forces on the installment Haiti into the Soviet-Communist camp. Somalia______------__ ----____ _ 246,000 2, 000,000 Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker, will Sudan ______----______967, 500 12, 109, 000 plan. Tanganyika______-----___ _ 362, 688 9,404,000 Mr. Speaker, I have read recent Amer­ the gentleman yield? 21, 850 1,444,000 ican newspaper attacks upon President Mr. PilLION. I yield to the gentle­ Uganda ______: ______48, 332 4, 168,000 ~~sfa======93, 981 6, 596,000 Duvalier. Haiti accuses the U.S. State man from Illinois. United Arab Republic ______386, 198 26, 059,000 Upper Volta ______Department of inspiring this campaign. Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker, with­ 105, 900 3, 635,000 I agree with Haiti. These articles and out meaning to anticipate the remarks of editorials follow the State Department's the gentleman, who has done an excel­ THREATENED COMMUNIST mistaken hope that if President Duvalier lent job of outlining the detail in which TAKEOVER IN HAITI is removed from o:tnce, our problems with the Communist web has been formed The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under Haiti will be solved. · around Haiti and neighboring states, previous order of the House, the gentle­ Now, the issue in Haiti is not whether could the gentleman tell us if he will be man from New York [Mr. PILLION] is President Duvalier believes in voodooism. able to give any alternative or plans recognized for 1 hour. The security of the United States is not that our State Department might have Mr. PILLION. Mr. Speaker, the pres­ directly threatened by the murders and to combat this development? ent policies of the United States, directed the terrorism reported in Haiti, as shock­ Mr. PILLION. The State Dep&.rtment toward Haiti, are following the same pat­ ing as they are to us. has no plans to fill this vacuum that has tern that proved to be so self-defeating The anti-Duvalier press campaign in been in effect, I think, since last August. in Cuba. Our fumbling diplomacy aided the United States and around the world There is a complete vacuum of thought Castro and abetted the Communist does not reveal but, in fact, conceals the in the CIA and the State Department as movement to produce the existing actual issue. to how effectively to deal with the shameful and dangerous Soviet-Cuban The fundamental issue posed by Haiti Haitian question. military-political threat to this Nation. is that the Communist forces in Haiti, Mr. DERWINSKI. Would I be er­ The Soviet-Communist forces are pur­ aided and abetted by the Communist roneous, in the gentleman's opinion, i! suing the same pattern 1n Haiti that as­ parties of Cuba, France, Czechoslovakia, I stated that the State Department sured the Communist takeover of Cuba. Poland, and the Soviet, are now in the policy seems to be to minimize the situa­ The Communist o:tncials in the Duvalier process of seizing and consolidating de tion in Haiti, hoping for the better? Cabinet are planning, encouraging, and facto political power in Haiti. Mr. PILLION. They are completely diabolically carrying out a campaign of The Communist control in Haiti will impractical in their approach to the bloody terrorism in Haiti. first bring into Haiti, Czechoslovak, and Haitian problem. That is my confirmed 8532 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE May 14 judgment after talking with a number of Republic to provide an all-encompassing have left us with no practical alternative representatives of ou:r; Government. solution to the Haiti problem. except that of military intervention. Mr. DERWINSKI. I certainly hope as We must keep in mind that President International Communist forces are a result of the gentleman's discussion Bosch's charges made to the United Na­ waging a war against us. They have this afternoon we can prod the State tions did not deal with the penetration declared this war. Their aim is to seize Department into either developing a pro­ and consolidation of Soviet-Communist political power in one country after an­ gram or demonstrating that they are at power in Haiti. other until they rule the world. least thinking about it. Therefore, the referral of this question The Communist strategists say that Mr. PILLION. I am afraid the time is by the United Nations to the OAS ex­ in this war, the political P.ower of the gone for the State Department to be cludes the consideration of this vital enemy must be destroyed. The will of able to take effective action. The situ­ question from their agenda. the people must be overcome, manipulat­ ation in Haiti has deteriorated to a point Mr. Speaker, this Nation cannot rely ed, and exploited to back Communist where action must be taken far beyond upon the Dominican Republic or upon power seizures. the capabilities of the State Department. the OAS to pull our chestnuts out of the The State Department has been un­ Now, I address myself to you, President Haitian fire. able or unwilling to accept the fact that Duvaliei:: The OAS lacks the organization, the Communists are waging war against all The Communist Parties are planning military capabilities, the finances, and free peoples for the political control of and are prepared to remove you from the the leadership to take effective action the world. Presidency of Haiti either by execution for the protection of the vital interests On October 2, 1962, I warned the or exile. Your days are numbered. Your of the United States in Haiti. President and the Nation that Haiti fate is already sealed. Mr. Speaker, there is only one prac­ was in imminent danger of duplicating Thus, for the sake of your Haitian peo­ tical alternative left to the United the path of Communist CUba. ple, I ask you, Mr. President, to officially States: I call upon our President to im­ My statement at that time under­ request U.S. military intervention in mediately lantl sufficient military forces scored the fact that the State Depart­ Haiti for the purpose of restoring and in Haiti to occupy for the purpose of ment's indecisive and do-nothing poli­ maintaining order, and for the further protecting the vital security interests of cies of "don't rock the boat" and "we purpose of assisting you to get rid of the both this Nation and this hemisphere. can't lose if we do nothing" were opening Communists who seek to destroy you and I call upon the President at the same the doors of the Western Hemisphere to your country. time to invite all members of the Organi­ rapid Communist conquest. Mr. President Duvalier, Haiti and the zation of American States to participate On March 15, 1963, I wrote to Secre­ United States have a mutual interest to in this military occupancy, designed, not tary of State Dean Rusk warning that be attained by our military assistance to overthrow any legitimate chief of President Duvalier of Haiti was sur­ for intervention in Haiti. state; but to prevent a new Communist rounded by Communists and that Haiti You can prevent the Communists from seizure of power in the Western Hemi­ was in imminent danger of being cap­ stealing your country, from converting sphere. tured by Communist forces. Haiti into a Soviet puppet and satellite. I further call upon the President to In that letter I urged the State De­ The United States is not interested in w,arn Cuban, Russian, Czechoslovakia, partment to formulate policies imple­ permanently occupying Haiti. But, the Polish, and Red Chinese Communists to menting the resolution of Congress of United States is vitally interested in pre­ keep their hands off Haiti. October 1962 to "prevent by whatever venting Haiti from becoming a second Mr. Speaker, defeat of this Communist means may be necessary, including the Cuba-Soviet military and political base scheme to seize power, will free the peo­ use of arms, the Marxist-Leninist regime for Communist operations that would ple of Haiti to develop an independent in Cuba from extending, by force or threaten the security and independence government of their choosing, and our threat of force, its aggressive or sub­ of the United States and all of Latin forces can and must then be withdrawn. versive activities to any part of the America. Mr. Speaker, our Government has hemisphere." The further consolidation of Com­ many justifications for taking this nec­ The answers of the State Department munist power in Haiti would be a essary action. were evasive, and completely lacking in tragedy for the people of Haiti. It would There is ample precedents for this a practical approach to effectively deal constitute another major and political action in international law. with the Communist takeover in Haiti. disaster for the United States. The Monroe Doctrine, long a firm cor­ Any further delay in dealing with the Mr. Speaker, Communist domination nerstone of our foreign policy, declares, Haitian crisis may put Haiti beyond our of Haiti would greatly increase the So­ in effect, that the United States will help. History will not forgive us another viet-Communist threat to both our naval consider it ·hostile and dangerous to the delay and another defeat. base in Guantanamo and to the Panama United States if any foreign power es­ Mr. Speaker, I urge the Members of Canal. tablishes any form of absolutist govern­ this House to support this call upon the A Communist government in Haiti ment in the Western Hemisphere, direct­ President for an immediate military oc­ would exert constant Communist pres.. ly or through third parties. This is cupancy of Haiti to protect the peace sures, threatening the independent what Communists have done in Cuba, and security of this Nation and this status of the Dominican Republic. and what they now intend to do in Haiti. hemisphere. If our Government now permits Cu­ The Caracas Declaration of Solidarity Mr. UTT. Mr. Speaker, will the gen­ ban-Soviet-Haitian Communist forces to of 1954 declared: tleman yield? consolidate their power in Haiti, then The domination of control of the political Mr. PILLION. I am pleased to yield worldwide distrust of our leadership, and institutions of any American state by the to the gentleman from California. further disintegration of our resistance international Communist movement, extend­ Mr. UTr. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate to communism will be accelerated. ing to this hemisphere the political system the gentleman's remarks with reference Mr. Speaker, this Nation can no longer of an extracontinental power would con­ to the Communist takeover in Haiti. I afford to wholly entrust the security and stitute a threat to the sovereignty and polit­ ical independence of the American states, should like to ask him if, to carry out survival of this Nation to the State De­ endangering the peace of America. his doctrine, if a Communist regime is partment. established, this Government should do If we continue to watch and wait while Mr. Speaker, the justification for im­ all within its power short of war to see the international Communist forces mediate action can be found in our land­ that that Communist regime does not work and win, Haiti will soon become a ing of forces in Lebanon in 1958 in order survive? second Soviet offensive military base. to assure the stability · of the Govern­ Mr. PILLION. I agree with the gen­ If we wait any longer, we will be con­ ment of Lebanon. tleman, but I do believe in this case an fronted not by Haitian Communist But, above all, our justification is the ounce of prevention is worth of a ton forces, but by Soviet troops, armament, necessity of defending the national se­ of cure. Now is the time to prevent the and missiles in Haiti. curity of the United States. complete takeover of Haiti. There is a Our Government, today, is hopefully Mr. Speaker, permit me to reempha­ de facto occupancy by the Communist looking toward the Organization of size the fact that the failure of the poli­ Party of Haiti, but they still have Du­ American States or to the Dominican cies of our Government toward Haiti valier to deal with. We could walk into 1963 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - ·HOUSE 8533 Haiti, I am quite sure, and get rid of For me, his continuing congressional industrial production has increased by the Communists around Duvalier by career serves as an irldispensable inspira­ 13 percent. military occupancy. And that is the only tion. Whenever I come face to face with However, because of. the lack of water, way we can do it. a crucial decision, I like to thiµk of how the development of the Negev, the desert Mr. UT!'. If we do not do' this, is it MANNY CEl.L-ER would act given the same la:nd in the south, has. not been as rapidly the gentleman's opinion that their next problem. Then the· issue and the resolve expanded as other fields. Yet, in the move is to go into Santo Domingo? somehow come into proper perspective. near, futuire, a pipeline will be completed Mr. PILLION. Yes, because right now The increasing majorities by which which will carry water to the parched they are in touch with Czechoslovakians. MANNY has been returned to the Federal lands from the Sea of Galilee in the They have had a mission there. They City are more than tributes to his ability. north. Dr. Ben-Gurion's dream of mak­ have negotiated with the Poles. Com­ They are also votes of confidence for his ing the desert bloom may soon become munists have gone to Europe and gotten evinced courage· of conviction and his a realized fact. However, industry money for Duvalier from Iron Curtain dedication to the prosecution of man's amund the Dead Sea has expanded above .countries. It is a progressive situation. inhumanity to his fellow man . all expectations. Potash, marble, and Once a Communist government is firmly For 40 years he has been a leading con­ salt products from this region are now established in Haiti it is bound to flow gressional friend of civil rights and a foe being exported throughout the world. over into the Dt>minican Republic. And of cant ~nd bias in all forms-. The Celler­ The people of Israel have worked hard the next iJ!l line is our own Puerto Rico. ian contempt for bigotry was perhaps for their success. Yet, success has been That is the next island that is going to best characterized by the words of MANNY attained, disproving the pessimistic go. It is just one step after another. himself when he wrote in his prophesies of world opinion in 1948. As I say,. an ounce of prevention is worth autobiography: ·They can surely be proud of their efforts a ton of cure. If we are going to do any­ I have no room in my heart for any tem­ and of their plans for future develop­ thing about Haiti we had better do it perance toward the degrada~on or despoiling ·ment. As a friend of the free world, now, because a year or 2 years from now of human dignity. r their position in the world community we will be confronted, not with the MANNY'S legislative accomplishment is honored and respected. As a friend of Haitian Ton Ton Macout forces or with has had an everlasting impact on the the United States, I extend congratula­ the shattered army that he has there American political scene, especially m tions on their achievements. today, but we will be confronted with the case of his dynamic advocacy for As Israel celebrates its 15th anniver­ Soviet tanks and nuclear missiles.· civil rights and antimonopoly legislation. sary, we in the United States may be Mr. UTT. I thank the gentleman. His approach to the legislative process proud of the part which we played in the Mr. PILLION. I thank the gentleman has been marked by a persistent concern development of this remarkable Middle for his interest. I know of his deep con­ for laws which guarantee our country's E::tstem country. Immediately after its cern with this same problem. very social and economic freedom. He proclamation of independence, our Gov­ Mr. STINSON. Mr. Speaker, will the will be around for some time to come­ ernment gave de facto recognition to the gentleman yield? let us pray for at least another quarter hard-pressed Israelis who were engaged Mr. PILLION. I am pleased to yield of a century--continuing his fight to in a struggle against attacking Arab make our great Nation an ever better forces. When the situation had become to the gentleman. tenable, we began sending aid to the Mr. STINSON. I certainly want to place to live. MANNY, I am sure I speak for one and fledgling state. Through our efforts the commend the gentleman for exposing the hungry were fed, the immigrants settled, Communist threat in Haiti. I should like all, regardless of party affiliation, when I say that we, who have been privileged and the army supplied with equipment. to ask a question. Does the gentleman Yet, it was the ingenuity of the Israeli have any idea as to what individual the to have known you and to have served with you, respect, admire, and love you. people that built their country into what Communists will try to put in power in it is today-a showplace for democracy. Haiti instead of President Duvalier? And, in this affectionate regard, we could not be more partisan. Through the efforts of the Israeli Army, Mr. PILLION. I would judge it would the diversified people who came to Israel possibly be this, chap Dupress who is now That the tree of liberty grows and flourishes in Brooklyn is a condition from all corners of the earth were molded the top Haitian adviser of Castro in into a homogeneous race, one devoted to Cuba. That is my best judgment. He which you have helped to nurture by your matchless work in Washington. the progress of their country. This de­ is a very active, very clever person. He velopment has included· agricultural is now in Cuba carrying on radio broad­ modernization, industrial production, oil casts to Haiti. I judge it might be he. refining, and education. Mr. STINSON. I thank the gentle­ FIFTEENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE Through Israeli educational facilities, man. INDEPENDENCE OF ISRAEL the nation has become a champion of the newly emerging States of Africa and Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Speaker~ I ask A TRIBUTE TO EMANUEL CELLER a friend to many of the underdeveloped. unanimous consent that the gentleman nations of four continents. From their The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under from Massachusetts [Mr. McCORMACK] schools go technicians and experts to previous order of the House, the gentle­ may extend his remarks at this point other countries who will, upon request, man from New York [Mr. HALPERN] is in the RECORD. set up similar facilities as exist in Israel, recognized for 5 minutes. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there be it a shipping line, communal village, Mr. HALPERN. Mr. Speaker, kind objection to the request of the gentleman or agricultural center. More important, words of tribute to the Congressman from from Oklahoma? though, these goodwill ambassadors take my State's 10th District have been artic­ There was no objection. with them the principles upon which ulated in this great Chamber on the Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Speaker, I their government is based-liberty, event of his 75th birthday anniversary. wish to congratulate the people of Israel equality, and justice. I should like to join in that refrain of on the 15th anniversary of the independ­ On this day, we salute the Israeli Gov­ appreciation by my congressional breth­ ence of their sovereign state. As the last ernment on its 15 years of achievement ren and say that to this speaker it of the British mandatory forces left and expr~ss the wish that the friendship has indeed been a source of inspiration Palestine on May 14, 1948, the Jewish which exists between our country and and good fortune to have been able to National Council' issued their courageous Israel will continue to inc:rease in peace serve with such a congressional giant declaration which established the Israel and harmony. as the gentleman from New York, EMAN­ State and inaugurated a democratic UEL CELLER. government. It has been some 23 years now since In the subsequent years, Israel has A SALUTE TO ISRAEL MANNY first befriended me. During the .emerged from an underdeveloped state Mr. ALBERT ~ Mr. Speaker, I ask course of those 23 years I have been par­ to one of self-sufficiency. Throughout unanimous consent to extend my re­ ticularly impressed by his fervency, his the country, great progress is evident. marks at this point in the RECORD. cordiality, his incomparable ability, his New schools and apartments, new fac­ The SPRAKER pro tempore. Is there _genuine humility, and his tremendous tories and oil refineries create a picture objection to the request of the gentleman political acumen. of prosperity. In fact just this past year, from Oklahoma? · CIX--538 8534 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE May 14 There was no objection. to the Congress the power to fix the remarks of Dr. Paul Z. Kaunitz of the Yale Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Speaker, 15 years "standard of weights and measures." School of Medicine. He suggested that ago, Israel was proclaimed a sovereign In the past month we have seen sev­ adolescent preoccupation with motor cars, and independent nation and was recog­ eral areas switch to daylight saving time. excessive speed, and daredevil driving can be compared to the puberty rites of the Zuni nized as such by the leading nations of This annual change of time is a con­ Indians of New Mexico. the world. The dream of Jewish Zion­ fusing process. It is an inconvenience But, he said, there is a serious difference. ists, forwarded by Herzl and Weizmann, for our common carriers who must meet The Zuni rites are dictated by tradition and had been fulfilled with the establishment and deal with schedules, for our commu­ approved by the tribe. The "rites" of our of the national Jewish homeland on May nications industries, for broadcasters own teenagers evoke only disapproval. Once 14, 1948. and banking and, in fact, for our busi­ a tribesman has completed his puberty From the day of its creation, though, ness activity in general. rights, which may involve great daring, suf­ Israelis have had to fight for their exist­ This variance in time can also be quite fering, and hunger, he is accepted as an costly. It has been estimated, I am in­ adult and usually behaves responsibly. Our ence as freemen. Solidarity and deter­ own teenagers, who are not following an ac­ mination have been the characteristics formed, that one railroad alone spends cepted pattern, may graduate into further of the defenders of Israel. From tneir $35,000 to $40,000 a year to adjust its delinquency. struggles with aggressive Arab forces information service to its passengers, We might well ask to what extent the have emerged a strong nation, bound to­ when this time change occurs. It sounds teenage Negro demonstrators in Birming­ gether by pride, religion, and common like something out of Lum 'n Abner to ham, who were beginning to get out of hand, aspirations. pose the question, "What time will the were unconsciously engaging in the counter­ Israel today is the most stable nation 3 o'clock train leave, at 2 or 4?" But part of puberty rights. And we might well in the Middle East, where upheavals this question is posed by these time ask the same question about the shocking and coups are an everyday occurrence. changes, to the confusion of the public rioting that has taken place in Princeton. and the carrier. Princeton students, though they are a bit To the world, Israel has become the sym­ older and should be more adult than the bol for peace and prosperity. Rapid eco­ The boundaries, geographical, and examples we have been citing, cut loose with nomic development has taken place. political, which regulate the obse'\"vance a senseless orgy of hooliganism. They tore Where once were deserts, cultivated of standard or saving time, add more down fences, threw fireworks into a dance fields now flourish. Cities have risen confusion. Some States have made sav­ hall, trampled hedges and gardens, tore out from the barren plains, and the ancient ing time illegal, thus placing a -political door screens and upset garbage cans, broke mining sites of Solomon reopened. boundary on the issue, while others leave , set fires, threw cherry bombs, Israel has also become a seat of learn­ it up to municipalities and local govern­ staged a panty raid, and released a one-ton ing units to determine. Our time zones air compressor on a highway where it went ing. Thousands of students from other tearing down a. hlll, a. menace to traffic and nations have enrolled in the colleges and are now geographically fixed, but even here controversy has arisen. life. universities in Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv. We civilized folks don't seem to know how Many more thousands of instructors The need for a rational and definitive to handle our teenagers. Maybe we should have left Israel to teach the newly coordination of time across this Nation ask some savage tribes to send a "Peace emerging nations of Africa the crafts of is clear, and the Congress has the dele­ Corps" to help us. government and economic development. gated power under the Constitution to We in the United States should recog­ bring it about. I feel this bill will achieve this. nize with pride the fact that we helped NEW DIRECTION FOR USES? to make Israel what it is today-a strong bastion of democracy for the Western Mr. MATHIAS. Mr. Speaker, I ask STUDENTS AT PRINCETON UNI­ unanimous consent that the gentleman World. It is with gratitude that I am VERSITY GO ON A RAMPAGE able to contribute this message of good from Missouri [Mr. CURTIS] may extend will to the people of Israel as they cele­ The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under his remarks at this point in the RECORD brate their annual independence day an­ previous order of the House, the gentle­ and include extraneous matter. niversary. man from Delaware [Mr. McDOWELL] is The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there recognized for 10 minutes. objection to the request of the gentleman Mr. McDOWELL. Mr. Speaker, only from Maryland? A UNIFORM TIME BILL a few days ago nearly a thousand stu­ There was no objection. Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Speaker, I ask dents at Princeton University, as the Mr. CURTIS. Mr. Speaker, it needs unanimous consent that the gentleman Wilmington

EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS

Twelfth Annual Congress of the Americ.an requires them t.o assume a leadership role efforts to establish a House Committee on in pointing up ways and means t.o return Captive Nations. This confusion serves no Latvian Association of the United States Latvia to her rightful place in the community other purpose but to prolong the agony of of free nations. the captive nations and provide comfort for EXTENSION OF REMARKS It is in this spirit that my remarks are imperial Russia. presented t.o your congress meeting. It is my opinion that none of the captive OF I am confident you will agree with me nations will regain their freedom and na­ HON. MICHAEL A. FEIGHAN that the prospects of liberating Latvia alone tional independence until all of them do. from the grip of Russian imperialism are This judgment corresponds with a practical OF OHIO small if not entirely lacking. To look at appraisal of the imperial system which holds IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the present plight of Latvia as an isolated or them in captivity. That system must be bro­ singular problem of our time would deny the ken, not one chain at a time. or several Tuesday, May 14, 1963 realities of contemporary international polit­ chains in isolated action, but all the chains Mr. FEIGHAN. Mr. Speaker, the 12th ical affairs as well as condemn the people in one concerted and unified program. of in­ Annual Congress of the American Lat­ of Latvia to perpetual slavery. Obviously, ternational political action. I am confident vian Association of the United States no rational person would fall int.o this trap. that history provides adequate testimony for this judgment. We need only t.o look at the was held in New York City on April 26, I am confident you will agree that libera­ tion of the three Baltic Republics--Latvia, lessons learned in East Germany or Hun­ 1963. It was my pleasure to send a mes­ Estonia, and Lithuania--is equally improb­ gary. For those who are weighted down with sage of greeting to the delegates gathered able if we restrict our thinking and plans to continuing doubts or may be persuaded that for that congress from various parts of this limited area of the overall problem. It a privileged few will be able to escape from the United States. My message was as is true that the Baltic States have much in the Russian prison house of nations, l follows: common, that they suffered a common ag­ would ask these questions: I am pleased to send warm greetings and gression at the hands of imperial Russia in 1. How secure would Latvia and her sister best wishes for success t.o all the delegates 1939, and that there is need for a strong re­ Republics of the Baltic region be if regain­ attending the 12th Annual Congress of the gional cohesion among the peoples of these ing their national independence they were American Latvian Association of the United nations. But more than this is necessary to required to coexist with the U.S.S.R.? States. bring a return of freedom and national inde­ 2. How secure would the Baltic States and Your congress will, I am confident, turn pendence to these nations. the Central European nations--Poland, a major part of its deliberations to the cen­ Looking further, we observe that in recent Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, and tral issue of ways and means whereby Latvia years the Baltic States have been grouped Bulgaria be if regaining their national inde­ may regain its freedom and national inde­ with Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Ru­ pendence they were required to coexist with pendence. It is natural that you should do mania, and Bulgaria in many, if not most, of the U.S.S.R.? this because the future of freedom through­ the nongovernmental actions calculated to 3. Can peace with freedom be secure for out the world, including the United States, advance the freedom of all those nations. any nation so long as imperial Russia is is in large measure dependent on the future In particular I have reference to the Assem­ allowed t.o maintain its despotic rule over of freedom in Latvia and the other captive bly of Captive European Nations. While this other nations? nations. This imperatively underscores the grouping reflects a degree of unity, it never­ I have other reasons for raising these ques­ importance of your deliberations as well as theless tends to obscure the t.otal problem tions before your congress delegates. I am the need for concerted and united action of captive nations. Moreover, this arrange­ convinced that an objective examination of by all who share the responsibilities for ment, whatever its origin or motivation, puts these questions will serve to identify the freedom's cause. I need not point out to you a false limit on the hist.orical meaning of source of the captive nations proble~ and that every American citizen is duty bound Europe by excluding other European nations underscore the urgent need for unity among to assume his or her full responsibilities in which are no less a captive of imperial Rus­ all the non-Russian nations now held in this cause. Some of us are privileged to sia. I have particular reference to Byelorus­ captivity by Moscow. The human power in assume a larger share of this responsibility sia, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, and several all these non-Rusian nations, taken as a col­ by virtue of our position, training, or special other nations. The result of this false and lective force for freedoms cause, is much more knowledge of the issues. I would point out arbitrary division of Europe is t.o divide and powerful than all the nuclear bombs and here that delegates to your congress have weaken the cause of all the captive nations. missiles possessed on both sides of the Iron a greater citizen responsibility because so Nowhere are evidences of this dangerous di­ Curtain. Once this human power is fully many of them have a firsthand knowledge vision of freedom's cause more evident than unified and harnessed in the cause of free­ and experience with the basic issues, which in the confusion which attends the present dom and independence for all nations, all