KHRUSHCHEV'S CUBAN TOE

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1963 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - APPENDIX
the Lincoln Memorial, though simple in de-
sign, is fitting for this great man. On the
walls are inscribed the ideals of total equal-
ity. Here, there is a feeling of solemnity
and deep respect that is incomparable to
any place in Washington or throughout the
country.
This trip has shown me the responsibility
of voting and getting good and capable men
to represent us. When we are of voting age,
we must remember this privileged duty and
for the better qualified man the vote should
be cast. Voting should not be on the can-
didate's popularity but on what he will do
for the country and the people.
Washington, D.C., represents the glorious
history of the past, the awareness of the
present, and the hope for peace and security
for the future of the democratic way of life.
Khrushchev'
EXTENSION
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port was signed unanimously by Democrats
and Republicans.
In September of 1960, President Kennedy
said, "If communism should obtain a per-
manent foothold in Latin America * * *
then the balance of power would move
against us and peace would be even more
insecure."
Tell me, are we helping or hinder es-
tablishment of a permanent Communist
foothold? Why do we take a position of "let
the dust settle" rather than take affirma-
tive action?
Why don't we support those who want to
attack the Communist government? We do
it in Vietnam. We do it in Nationalist
.China. We did it in Korea, and we did it
in Lebanon. Are we afraid to step on Khrush-
chev's Cuban toe?
Why did we dismantle our NATO weapons
in Turkey and Italy? Was there a "deal"?
In my belief it is past the time for us to
not only assert our views, but also to act,
If we had the courage of our Central Amer-
ican friends we would support all activities
taken to bring about the overthrow of Castro
and communism. Don't ever forget we are
the strongest Nation in the world. We are
the leaders of the free world, or are we?
What do you think?
Sincerely yours,
Congressman JACK WESTLAND.
OF WASHINGTON
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Monday, June 3, 1963
Mr. WESTLAND. Mr. Speaker, my re-
port to the people of the Second District
of Washington State for the month of
May concerns Cuba. This subject is per-
haps more in the minds of the people I
represent than any other issue outside
Government spending. I base this ob-
servation on the many answers I have
received from my annual questionnaire.
Under leave to extend my remarks, Mr.
Speaker, I include my newsletter,
"Khrushchev's Cuban Toe," in the
RECORD:
KHRUSHCHEV'S CUBAN TOE
So much has been written, spoken, and
debated about. Cuba and the presence of Rus-
sian troops on that island in the last year
that I thought my voice would only add to
the confusion that seems to exist. Not that
I haven't made my views known as far back
as the summer of 1960 when I urged the Re-
publican leadership to take military action
to protect American lives and property, and
last fall when I congratulated the President
for taking positive action, action which I
think all Americans applauded-and won-
dered why it had taken so long.
Since then, I have read many reports and
I have talked to exiled Cubans, to people who
were involved in the Bay of Pigs fiasco and
heads of Latin-American countries. From
these studies I have come to conclusions
which, as your Representative, I think I
should communicate to you.
1. The Monroe Doctrine, as we have known
it for almost 200 years, is dead in the eyes
of the world. We have failed through our
inaction to keep it alive.
2. The report of the Stennis (Senator from
Mississippi) committee confirms the belief
of almost all Members of Congress that (a)
there are still a substantial number of Rus-
sian troops in Cuba (from a minimum of
14,000 to as high as 60,000); (b) that Cuba
is no longer run by Cubans, but by Russians;
(c) that Cuba is. the center of the Com-
munist attempt at subversion and intrigue
in the Western Hemisphere; (d) the fact
that an acknowledged foreign power (Com-
munist Russia and China) has established a
base of operations in the Western Hemi-
sphere despite our actions is a tremendous
political disadvantage to us in all our deal-
ings with the Soviets. Incidentally, this re-
Government Lotteries of Ethiopia, Ghana,
Morocco, and Nigeria
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. PAUL A. FINO
OF NEW YORK
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Monday, June 3, 1963
Mr. FINO. Mr. Speaker, for the past
3 weeks, I have brought to the attention
of this House, several foreign countries
which utilize government-run lotteries as
a revenue-raising device. Today, I would
like to take the Members of this House
to Africa, and discuss the lotteries con-
ducted in Ethiopia, in Ghana, in Moroc-
co, and in Nigeria. These are 4 of 77 for-
eign countries that tie the gambling urge
of their people together with the gov-
ernments' need for additional revenue.
Ethiopia started its national lottery
last year. Because of the newness of the
project, inadequate distributions, and
advertising methods, the gross receipts
did not reach the anticipated level. How-
ever, the total gross annual receipts for
1962 were $800,000. The net income to
the Government came to $138,000 which
was used for support of charitable proj-
ects and the general treasury.
Ghana, a poor country, first estab-
lished a lottery in 1958 as a means of
raising badly needed revenues. The gross
annual receipts for 1962 came to $756,000.
The total annual net income to the Gov-
ernment was $311,000 which was applied
to its general revenue.
Morocco does not operate its own lot-
tery but is the recipient of benefits de-
rived from the operation of a private lot-
tery and the French national lottery both
of which function there. The total gross
annual receipts from the sale of lottery
tickets in 1962 came to about $2 million.
The Moroccan Government collected
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about 25 percent of the value of total
lottery sales which came to one-half mil-
lion dollars. These funds are earmarked
for charitable purposes.
Nigeria has a premium bond lottery
which was started last December 1962.
This type of lottery is patterned after the
British premium bond lottery and India's
prize bond program. Nigeria realizes
that a recognition of the normal gambl-
ing urge of its people can be a great help
in handling the nation's finances. The
proceeds of the sales of the bonds are
intended to help finance Nigeria's eco-
nomic development program.
Mr. Speaker, if we showed similar
courage and wisdom in the United States
and capitalized on our own people's gam-
bling thirst we could raise over $10 billion
a year which could be used to cut our
heavy taxes and reduce our gigantic na-
tional debt. New Hampshire set the ex-
ample, how about following it?
The Carney Hospital of Boston: 100th
Anniversary
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. JOHN W. McCORMACK
OF MASSACHUSETTS
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Monday, June 3, 1963
Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Speaker, on
June 9, 1963, 100 years of progress in
patient care will be celebrated by Carney
Hospital in Boston, Mass.
Crumbling records from the hospital's
archives show that on the morning of
June 9, 1863, precisely a century ago, the
first patient, a housemaid named Ann
Mallon, was admitted to Boston's newest
but most modest hospital, a converted
framehouse equipped with 40 brass beds.
Carney was the first Catholic hospital in
New England.
Today, after serving over 300,000 pa-
tients and providing close to 3,500,000
treatments for outpatients and accident
patients, Carney is a 318-bed general
hospital, housed in a complex of new
buildings in Dorchester,. Mass.
The hospital's founder, Andrew Car-
ney, came to America from Ireland in
1794 at the age of 22 and prospered as
a tailor and merchant.
Following the Irish famines of the
early 19th century when a great many
impoverished Catholic immigrants ar-
rived in Boston, creating a need for good
medical care, Carney decided to build
a Catholic hospital.
To help establish the hospital he
sought the assistance of Sister Ann Alexis
of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vin-
cent de Paul who had been working in
Boston since 1832.
Early in 1863, Mr. Carney purchased
for $13,500 the J. Hall Howe estate on
the southwestern slope of Dorchester
Heights in South Boston close to the en-
trenchments erected by George Wash-
ington to compel the evacuation of the
British during the Revolutionary War.
Two years after the hospital opened, it
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was able to care for 175 wounded soldiers
returning from the Civil War.
Before his death in 1864, Andrew Car-
ney donated a total of $75,000 to his hos-
pital. But because these funds were used
for capital expenses, the task of main-
taining the hospital was assumed by the
Sisters of Charity. The history of the
hospital has been filled with financial
crises. During the early years the Sis-
ters were often forced to beg in the
streets of Boston to keep the hospital
going.
in spite of the hospital's chronically
poor financial position, high standards
of patient care have always been main-
tained and there have been instances of
true greatness in medicine and surgery.
It was at the hospital in 1882 that Dr.
John Homans performed his early ova-
riectomies and thus opened up the field
of abdominal surgery and gave the hos-
pital and himself an international repu-
tation.
Dr. Henry I. Bowditch was the pioneer
of New England in treatment of diseases
of the thorax and in pleurisy with effu-
sion. It was Dr. Bowditch who intro-
duced the practice of withdrawing the
fluid from the thoracic cavity by the
process of aspiration or thoracentesis.
Rubber gloves were used in the operat-
ing room at Carney for the first time In
Boston by Dr. Frederick W. Johnson.
For his eccentricity, Dr. Johnson was
dubbed by his contemporaries as the
"Dude from Back Bay."
The first cervical cesarean operation in
New England was performed by Dr. Louis
Phaneuf. Up to that time it was almost
always fatal for a woman to have two or
more cesarean sections.
Faithful to the Andrew Carney stip-
ulation that the hospital, "be used by
the Sisters of Charity where the sick
without distinction of creed, color or
nation shall be received and cared for,"
Carney has traditionally provided medi-
cal care for anyone who needed it, re-
gardless of his race, religion or financial
situation, and has responded to every
demand of epidemic, war and disaster.
In 1898, casualties from the Spanish-
American War arrived in Boston aboard
the steamer Lewiston and were taken
to Carney for treatment. Because the
hospital was crowded at the time, tents
were pitched on the hospital grounds
and some of the Sisters gave up their
own rooms to make provisions for the
wounded soldiers and sailors.
In 1918, an influenza epidemic struck
the city and Carney cared for over 600
victims. Later that year, the whole hos-
pital was offered to the War Department
for the care of wounded servicemen
returning from World War I.
At the conclusion of the Second World
War, the hospital was old and the facili-
ties outmoded. The buildings were held
together by the sheer determination of
the Sisters of Charity and the hospital's
inventive maintenance men. After an
intensive investigation, It was decided to
rebuild rather than renovate.
His Eminence, Richard Cardinal
Cushing, archbishop of Boston, sounded
the cry, "Save the Carney Hospital,"
and Bostonians of every race and creed
responded to his appeal.
The new hospital became a reality in
November of 1953. In its magnificent
new buildings, the hospital has been able
to sharply increase Its services to the sick.
Last year the hospital cared for over
12,000 inpatients and gave 33,000 treat-
ments to outpatients and accident
patients.
Since the new hospital was built, two
wings have been added. The first wing
constructed in 1956 and named for Rich-
ard Cardinal Cushing, contains quarters
for house doctors and an auditorium.
The second wing, housing the hospital's
research program was built 2 years ago.
Carney is a teaching hospital of Tufts
University Medical School, operates its
own schools of anesthesia and medical
technology and is a sponsoring hospital
of the Catherine Laboure School of
Nursing.
Nineteen hundred and sixty-three
marks the 100th anniversary of the
founding of the original Carney and
the 10th anniversary of the new hospi-
tal.
The history-the trials and financial
difficulties of Carney Hospital during the
past 100 years-is a remarkable story In
itself, as well as the story of the various
Sister administrators, and other Sisters
assigned to this hospital.
As was well said on the occasion of its
golden anniversary on June 9, 1913, that
"one can realize the enormity of this
undertaking-with no endowment-and
the struggle which it entailed."
It was due to the dedicated Sisters of
Charity, who have served Carney Hospi-
tal during its first 100 years, that this
hospital has been able to survive, pros-
per, and grow; and loyally supporting
these good Sisters were countless of gen-
erous friends.
However, without the order of the Sis-
ters of Charity and those sisters who
served, Carney Hospital could not have
survived.
As was well said again, 50 years ago,
ters of Charity and those Sisters who
worthy of repeating now, "Had the mo-
tive of this work been one of gain or
otherwise, merely human failure would,
without doubt, have been the outcome;
but, because of devotion to the cause of
suffering humanity was the underlying
principle, It claimed the cooperation of
generous-hearted people, and the bless-
ing of God rested upon the hospital," and
I might well include the Sisters of today
and yesterday.
With the blessing of God, Carney Hos-
pital and the Sisters of Charity can look
forward with faith and confidence in
serving God, mankind, country, and suf-
fering humanity, for the next 100 years
of the existence of Carney Hospital.
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. RICHARD E. LANKFORD
OF 1LARYLAND
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Monday, June 3, 1963
Mr. LANKFORD. Mr. Speaker, under
leave to extend my remarks, I ask per-
mission that a resolution drafted by tht'
Hood College Cooperative Association
and the town hail executive board urg-
ing the passage of legislation leading to
the establishment of a National Service
Corps by the 88th Congress, be printed
in the RECORD:
Whereas numerous and complex social
problems currently exist within the United
States of America; and
Whereas serious shortages of both trained
personnel and financial resources with which
to meet and help diminish these problems,
also still exist; and
Whereas we believe that the proposed Na-
tional Service Corps now before the 88th
Congress. would, if instituted, definitely help
to alleviate many of these existing problems;
and
Whereas we further believe that this Corps
would contribute greatly toward the Im-
provement of our country in that it would
assist our citizens in areas of great need: be
it therefore,
Resolved, That the executive board of the
Town Hall Association of Hood College, the
executive board of the Cooperative Govern-
ment Association of Hood College (and the
student body of this same college), urge the
passage of legislation leading to the estab-
lishment of a National Service Corps by the
88th Congress of the United States.
Henry Ford II Expresses the Need for a
Tax Cut
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. MARTHA W. GRIFFITHS
OF MICHIGAN
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Monday, June 3, 1963
Mrs. GRIFFITHS. Mr. Speaker, it is a
pleasure for me to insert in the RECORD
the remarks of Mr. Henry Ford II, chair-
man of the board of the Ford Motor Co.,
and cochairman of the Business Com-
mittee for Tax Reduction in 1963, to his
stockholders regarding the necessity for
tax cut, and the manner in which he
thinks taxes should be cut.
The remarks follow:
MR. FORD'S REMARKS TO STOCKHOLDERS-
MAY 23, 1963
In the course of this review, you will hear
to some detail the major economic factors
affecting the automobile Industry and Ford
Motor Co.
First, I think It is no secret that the
economy is strong generally and our in-
dustry Is enjoying record sales for this time
of the year. running neck and neck with
1955. Ford Motor Co. is sharing in this well-
being, and is concentrating now on doing
the things that will assure Its increased par-
ticipation in tomorrow's markets.
Despite the general prosperity we are en-
joying, the economy continues to reveal cer-
tain weaknesses. There has been a persistent
slack during the past 6 years in employ-
ment, in business investment and in business
profits. At the same time, our international
balance-of-payments position has been weak,
posing a threat to the international value of
the dollar. This combination of Internal and
international problems has created a dilem-
ma for government policy, since many ac-
tions that might advance our domestic goals
could harm our International economic In-
terests.
In seeking some acceptable solution to
this economic dilemma, the administration
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