SOVIET TROOPS STILL IN CUBA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP65B00383R000200250005-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 12
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 9, 2004
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: April 3, 1963
• Content Type: OPEN

Approved For Release. 20.04/06/23 : CIA-RDP65B00383R000200250005-0
1963 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - APPENDIX A1997
ing this living memorial project in his people who can't find jobs. One Phase of
Farmers Want Program That Will Enable
role as Reserve recruiting officer atTreas- this proposal would employ 15,000 young ure Island Naval Base. people initially to improve forests and recre- Them To Compete
Having been a personal friend of: the ation areas. It could ultimately be ex-
d
d t
i
e
o
nclude about 60,000 in this work:
late Admiral Callaghan, his distinguished pan
brother Vice Adm. William Callaghan, Another phase of the Youth Conservation
Corps could be implemented in cities facing
retired, and Judd Callaghan, it is my chronic unemployment. Matching Federal
great pleasure to bring this program to funds would be made available to local com-
the attention of our colleagues. munities for hiring jobless. young people for
work in nonprofit community service orga-
nizations-hospitals, schools and settlement
houses.
EXTENSION OR REMARKS
Or
HON. DON L. SHORT
OF NORTH DAKOTA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, April 3, 1963
The Criterian, Weekly Publication of the Every sizable community has problems of Mr. SHORT. Mr, Speaker, our Demo
school dropouts resulting in a surplus of un- er
t fri
nd
d o
a
e
s are fon
f accusing Roman Catholic Archdiocese of In- skilled jobseekers. The. unemployment rate ate g Repub
among young people is more than twice the licans of not being sympathetic with the
d
p
li
E
ana
o
s,
ndorses Youth Conserva- national average, even higher among minor- economic problems of farmers. The
tion Corps and National Service Corps ity groups and among those who don't finish ridiculous contention and the justify such in
high Proposals We believe the administration's proposals the principal farm States have indicated
for youth are sound. The amount of money in the past couple of elections that they
EXTENSION OF REMARKS required to implement them is small com- believe their economic well-being is best
of pared with the vastness of the needs and the served by Republicans. Farmers in farm
good the programs could accomplish.
??? ..~.m=. aoa.rra~a.arana that they do not buy the Kennedy-Free-
OF INDIANA man and company, economist-conceived
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Half of New Jersey Bays Closed supply-management idea of farm legisla-
tion. March 11, 1963 tion. Farmers want a program that will
to Shellfishing enable them to ' compete in an economy
Mr. BRADEMAS. Mr. Speaker, I. am that contains built-in price , protection
pleased to. insert in the CONGRESSIONAL EXTENSION OF REMARKS' for other segments of our economy, but
RECORD an excellent editorial entitled or retains for the farmer a maximum degree
"New Peace Corps," which was published HON. JOHN D. DINGELL of opportunity to exercise initiative and
in the February 22,. 1963, issue of the utilization of
their land. and manage-
Criterion, the weekly publication of the. OF MICHIGAN ment capability. This administration
Roman Catholic archdiocese 'of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES gives lipservice to this concept in farm
Indianapolis. Tuesday, April 2, 1963 legislation, but every, major. farm 'bill
I think this edito
i
l i
on
th
r
a
s
e of
e sponsored by this Democrat administra-
finest I have seen on the importance.of Mr. DINGELL. Mr. Speaker, pursuant tion has provided for more. strict produc-
these two proposals of President Ken- to permission granted I insert into the' tion controls and price management.
nedy and on the way in which the Presi Appendix. of the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD I do not have time. here, Mr. Speaker,
dent has responded to the needs and an article appearing in the Philadelphia to go into. all the failures of this: admin-
problems of young people. (Pa.) News of October 15, 1962, pointing istration so,far as farmers.are concerned,
The editorial follows: out that half of the New Jersey bays are but Just to keep the record straight, .1
NEW P
A
now closed to
h
C
llfi
hi
E
CE
s
ORps
e
s
ng because of poi-
One of the side effects of having a youth- lution. The economic loss of, this pollu-
ful President, surrounded by . youthful. tion will run into millions of- dollars.
advisers, seems to be-quite naturally-a This is one more reason why additional
knowledge of the special needs of youth. vigor is required in Federal, State, and
Mr. Kennedy has captured the imagina= local activities to abate pollution of our
tion of the country's young people by offer- rivers, streams, and offshore waters.
ing to them the challenges and opportuni- The article follows:
ties to contribute toward the common good. '
Whether It be physical fitness (with or with- HALF or NEW JERSEY BAYS CLOSED TO
out 50-mile hikes) or' the Peace Corps, SHELLFISHING
response to the administration's programs For several years New Jersey's inland wa-
has been marked by typical youthful terways along the coast have been contami-
exuberance. nated. This year, however, the pollution is
Even the severest critics of the Peace so bad half the areas have been closed to
Corps a short time ago have now completely shellfishing.
reversed themselves because of the project's The ban covers clams, oysters, and mussels;
dazzling success around the world, In fact, not crabs.. The economic .loss 1s expected to
the current 9,000. authorized limit for the run into the millions.
Peace Corps . will probably be extended by Behind the ban. is prevention of hepatitis
Congress to 13,000 volunteers to keep pace which can result from eating contaminated
with the demands. shellfish.
Last week President Kennedy, in a special Areas affected extend from Raritan Bay to
message to Congress about youth, called for Cape May. Worst spots, it is reported, are
the establishment of two new programs.-R, at Atlantic City, Margate, Ventnor, Absecon,
domestic service corps and a renewed appeal and Pleasantville.
p
bl
young.people: _ _
ess the situation there "terrible." AState con
o
The proposed National Service Corps Cservation man estimated half of New Jer-
is sey's shellfish areas have been condemned.
"urgently needed," according to the Presi Chief, contamination cause is growth of
dent, to provide aid in mental. health. seashore communities, officials said. Over-
centers, hospitals, Indian reservations, mi- taxed sewage. systems result in only partially
grant labor camps and organizations serving treated wastes, which spill into the back-
slums or poverty-stricken rural areas., As waters and sink to?the oyster and clam beds.
outlined, the project would ultimately in- Then tides spread it,
volve 5,000 volunteers. It would be adman- Also blamed are industrial waste, failure
istered by local professional personnel 'on of some sewage systems to work properly,
locally planned projects. and overflowing of cesspools and septic tanks.
The Youth Conservation Corps, similar to Laws on sewage disposal are adequate, one
the old Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) official noted, but often are hard to enforce.
in the depression years, is intended by Presi- "How can you check on every marina?"
dent Kennedy to give work to some young he asked.
Mr. Freeman's professed effort to help
farmers.
The Department of Agriculture; in a
release dated March 29, 1963, reveals
th&t the parity ratio of prices received
by farmers on March 15 was 77. The -re-
port says:
The parity ratio slipped off I point to 77,
the lowest since 1959.
This is hardly a solid achievement in
the area of improving for
agriculture in general.
Let us look at cattle prices. The USDA
report referred to above states :
Beef cattle, at $19.00 per hundredweight
were the lowest. for the month since Febru-
ary 1960.
It is a well-known fact that fat cattle
have suffered: a decline in price Of. 7
cents per pound since. December. This
is a loss of $70 per head or. more on
every fat steer or heifer a farmer is
sending. to market. If this is a side
effect, of,Mr. Freeman's management of.
feed, grain prices, I doubt. that cattle,
feeders are impressed with the results.
Now let us take a look at hogs. The
USDA reports that at $13:70per hundred-
weight hogs were lower than. in any
month since 1960. 1 am advised today
bogs are selling for $13.10 at country
buying points in Iowa.
This March report of the Crop Re-
porting Board of USDA is reporting facts
as it traditionally has for many years.
These facts must not be a great comfort
Approved For Release 2004/06/23 : CIA-RDP65B00383R000200250005-0
 A1998
Approved For Release 2004/06/23 : CIA-RDP65B00383R000200250005-0
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - APPENDIX April 3
to Kennedy, Freeman and company and
we could perhaps wonder how long be-
fore the White House news management
policy will be applied to the Department
of Agriculture's role of providing factual
statistical information for farmers.
Let us look briefly at some other direct
quotations from the report:
The commercial vegetable index dropped
8 percent during the month.
The March index (for dairy products) was
3 percent below a year earlier and lowest
for the month since 1956.
Lower prices for eggs and commercial
broilers dropped the Index 1 percent dur-
ing the month to 155.
I point out_ these instances of declin-
ing farm prices as a means of explaining
the continued decline of the farmer's
parity ratio and more specifically, the
farmer's income. I do this for the pur-
pose of keeping the record straight as to
the real effect of the administration's
farm policies.
Soviet Troops Still in
EXTENSION OF
O
HON. STEVEN B. DEROUNIAN
Also,
vert free governments throughout the hemi- Poland rates first in number with 74- capita
sphere and we have recently been treated it is pointed out, that "in Poland, p p
to some expert testimony by CIA Director power output increased tenfold." There
McCone on the extent of Cuban efforts to are many other statistics leading to the
export revolution. Mr. McCone told the same effect.
House Foreign Affairs Committee that "at In this connection, it may seem st_?ange
least 1.000 to 1,500 persons" from other that I suggest that you study the March-
Latin American countries went to Cuba In April 1963, number of Mission. This mini-
1962 for training In such subjects as sabo- attire magazine Is a publication of Bishop
tage and guerrilla warfare. Soviet "tech- Fulton J. Sheen. In pointing out the Corn-
nicians" can play a major role in such train- munist persecution of the Catholic Church,
Ing. they also bolster the Castro regime it dwells conspicuously on Red Poland.
against threats from the Cuban people. And We are reminded that Cardinal Wyszynskl
as long as they remain, the possibility re- suffered several years in prison, that 91
mains that Mr. Khrushchev might clandes- priests were killed, 260 disappea-ed without
tinely reintroduce his missiles. trace, and that 550 were deported. We are
Whatever their activities in Cuba, we can also told 2.133 Catholic ches w e
r
he sure of one thing: we-the free nations closed. , surprisingly,
for
sent to prison
of the hemisphere-are the target of those priests W We st were learn,
Sheen's for own 3 ybooksears into
activities. Mr. Khrushchev didn't send his translating p
troops to the Caribbean for a holiday, and His Excellency is not concerned with any
he isn't keeping them there to spare them political or economic aspects in giving us
a Moscow winter. I w But we as laymen and as
hi
s rev e .
t
American citizens can soberly ask ourselves:
What sort of friendly "image" is the United
States creating for Itself, as some newspa-
pers suggest, by giving favorable trade treat-
ment and support by aid to this atheistic
EXTENSION OF, REMARKS communist regime?
The answer was furnished last year by
or Wiadyslaw Gomulka himself. He should
HON. EDWARD J. DERWINSKI know, for he is the head of the Polish Com-
munist Party and the Red Polish Govern-
OF ILLINOIS meat. Gomulka has given an interview
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES which was July bitterly 1nti published it The
l~edfrCSday, April 3, 1983 full, and I Invite you to look it up.
Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker, the -SUPPORTS K.
Brooklyn Tablet, the weekly publication In the interview, Gomulka started right
of the Roman Catholic Diocese of off by saying: "If it depended on the Soviet
Brooklyn, N.Y., is one of the most re- Union only, the prospect for peace would be
spected and effective publications of this very bright Indeed." But he showed that the
nature In the country. United States was the other big factor
.. ,.,-.,-?,..,.ot cnanA and that It In-
OF NEW YORK
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Monday, April 1, 1963
Mr. DEROUNIAN. Mr. Speaker, the
following editorial appeared recently in
the Paris edition of the New York Her-
ald Tribune. Under leave to extend my
remarks, I am pleased to call to the at-
tention of the House the Herald Trib-
une's excellent commentary on the con-
tinued presence of Soviet troops in Cuba.
A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
A not-so-funny thing happened on the way
to no place at all this week.
At his news conference, President Kennedy
was asked a three-part question. Did the
administration have accurate information on
the number of Soviet troops actually with-
drawn from Cuba? Was Mr. Kennedy satis-
fied with the rate of withdrawal? Was there
any arrangement with the Soviets for veri-Said fication of the withdrawal? ? o, question
President, "the answer to your
would really be 'No' to all of them." He
grinned. The reporters broke Into laughter.
And that was that.
It may have been a clever way to handle
an embarrassing question, but the answer-
or at least its implications-didn't strike us
as particularly amusing. Or reassuring. .
The situation in Cuba is certainly better
today than It was last October, before Mr.
Kennedy forced the Soviets to dismantle
their offensive missile bases. But it's far
worse than it was a year ago. or 2 years ago.
And one of the principal reasons is the con-
tinued presence of those Soviet troops which.
the President acknowledged, are not being
withdrawn at a pace he considers satisfac-
tory. Nor are most other Americans likely
phasizes the obvious fact that aid to
Red Poland strengthens Moscow.
In view of the proposals in this year's
foreign aid bill which have just been
made at the insistence of the adminis-
tration, showing extremely favorable
consideration to Poland and Yugoslavia,
I feel this article Is extremely timely,
and I insert it into the RECORD at this
point:
THE REDS-WHAT Now?-AID TO RED POLAND
STRENGTHENS Moscow
(By Louis F. Budenz)
Praise for Joseph Stalin as "a good
Marxist and good Communist," uttered by
Khrushchev in early March, to be under-
standable, must be linked up with a big
Kremlin endeavor. As highlighted in the
February International Affairs, this is the
re-creation of Stalin's victims, the captive
nation, Into economic battering rams
against the West.
The aim of the enterprise, as set forth
in that issue's leading article. "Council for
Mutual Economic Aid and the Six," is to
prove "that the planned socialist economy
is superior to the 'coordinated' capitalist
economy." The narrative covers the al-
ieged differences between the Red-ruled
Council for Mutual Economic Aid and the
European Common Market. It Is naturally
directed against us.
to consider the pace satisfactory. PATES FIRST
The troops may not be preparing to in-
the
mon
i
'
g
ms a
s vict
vade Miami. but they do constitute a clear The first of Stalin
labor.
and present danger to the hemisphere. They captive highest nations,
as an agency to destroy the It is no wonder cheaptheresuWorkerlts of March
are In Cuba precisely because salts ere.
Khrushchev's purposes to keep them there. free world economically. Of 273 industrial 17 advertises many Red Polish products along
And we all know what his purposes are. enterprises, constructed In "the Socialist with East German exports as though they
Khrushchev, Castro and Co. aim to sub- countries" with Soviet technical assistance, represented Communist buying.
he supported item by item Khrushchev's de-
mands on the free world. He raised aloft
the banner of peaceful coexistence, implying
that America opposed such an idea.
Gomulka knew full well that peaceful co-
existence had been the slogan under which
Poland had been taken over by Stalin in
agreement with Hitler. I have In my hand
at this moment No. 9 of the Communist
International for 1939, the predecessor as
directive giver of the World Marxist Re-
view.
There we have the speech of Premier V.
M. Molotov of the Soviet Union on "The
Meaning of the Soviet-German Nonaggres-
sion Pact," In other words, the Hitler-Stalin
alliance. His chief thought Is expressed
thus: "In our foreign policy toward non-
Soviet countries, we have always been guided
by Lenin's well-known principle of the peace-
ful coexistence of the Soviet state and of
capitalist countries."
So it was, that peaceful coexistence was
the excuse for the betrayal of the West,
just as it was for every other major Soviet
move. In a word, as Gomulka knows,
peaceful coexistence constitutes that favor-
able cover under which Soviet power can
best advance at any particular period.
The great weapons of the socialist bloc
against us economically are to be twofold,
says International Affairs. They are great
joint electric power and oil pipeline systems
through all the Red-ruled countries and
regimented trade with the West. L Socialist
Approved For Release 2004/06/23 : CIA-RDP65B00383R000200250005-0
 A1984
Approved For Release 2004/06/23 : CW-RDP65B00383R000200250005-0 ` '
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD APPENDIX April 3
tion of bases equipped with missiles as well bloody heels of Communist gangsters,
as bomber planes, had been carried on in-
aide the territory of Cuba. This was aimed
at the United States. using our might to prevent others from
One wonders what
more proof the Government here needs that seeking freedom?
any steps taken by this country to protect The following column, written by
itself are proper under International law David Lawrence in the Washington
and that so-called neutrality laws do not Evening Star of April 2, 1963, points up
apply in the present circumstances to Cuba. the confused thinking of the Kennedy
Actually, the constant use of air surveil- administration. Let us hope the Ameri-
lance by the United States over Cuban, ter- can people will soon demand a rational
ritory is not really In line with the customary leadership which is unafraid and deter-
The of the concept of neutrality.
The continuous pressure by the Government mined to protect our freedom, not merely
here upon other governments to boycott all keep the peace. No American worthy of
trade with Cuba is also hardly neutral. the name can ever accept peace without
Secretary Rusk, in his March 12 speech, honor.
said: r"' ??
Cuba that, having failed to take the steps [From the Washington Evening Star, Apr. 2,
that might have prevented in years past the 1963]
establishment of a Marxist-Leninist regime POLICY OF INACTION AGAINST CUBA: U.S. Er-
in Cuba, that the problem of finding a cure FORTS AGAINST ANTI-CASTRO ATTACKS DE-
is more difficult." scnIBED AS RESULT OF CONFUSION
The foregoing might well be paraphrased (By David Lawrence)
and applied today as the administration, in- Confusion, if not frustration, today char-
stead of finding a cure, permits the Soviets acterizes the policy of the administration
to strengthen their hold inside Cuba. It has toward Cuba,
li
t
even en
s
ed the help of Great Britain's
navy to keep Cuban patriots from attempt-
ing to regain their homeland.
Mr. Rusk also said in his speech that "the
presence of Soviet forces In this hemisphere
cannot be accepted as a part of the normal
situation in this hemisphere."
But the Soviets not only have been in-
filtrating Guatemala and Brazil, but they are
still maintaining a military force In Cuba,
less than ~a hundred miles away from the
coast of this country.
Senator STENNIS, Democrat, of Mississippi,
chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on
Military Affairs, said in a speech the other
day that, "without positive action on our
part, our neighbors to the south may fall
one by one, until the entire hemisphere is
lost to us." He added that he was con-
vinced that "the Cuban situation is the most
immediate, pressing, and important problem
facing our Nation today."
Yet the administration is using its in-
fluence to discourage a counterrevolution-
ary movement against the Castro regime,
which deliberately invited the Soviet Gov-
ernment to send troops and build missile
bases in Cuba. How can the United States
justify a policy of Inaction against the
Havana regime and invoke neutrality laws
against the only Individuals who wish to
risk "their lives, their fortunes, and their
sacred honor" to overthrow a tyrannical
dictatorship?
The Shame of Our Cuban Policy
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
HON. BRUCE ALGER
OF TEXAS
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Tuesday, April 2, 1963
Mr. ALGER. Mr. Speaker, just how
far is President Kennedy prepared to go
in retreating from all the ideals upon
which this Nation of ours is founded?
We, who have been the champions of
freedom, are now in the strange position
of defending Fidel Castro, a ruthless and
murdering dictator, against the loyal
Cuban people whose crime Is that they
want to be free and are willing to the
to restore freedom to their homeland.
Are we, a once proud people, now go-
ing to grovel in the dust under the
Nearly 2 weeks have passed since President
Kennedy told a news conference that the
Soviet Government had withdrawn only
3,000 troops out of the 17,000 stationed on
Cuban soil. He then added:
"We are waiting to see whether more will
be withdrawn, as we would hope they would
be. The month of March is not finished yet,
and we should have a clearer idea'as to what
the total numbers should be In the coming
days."
The month of March has passed, but the
"clearer idea" has still not materialized. The
only action that has been taken by the ad-
ministration is a sharp warning-not di-
rected to the Russian Government-but to
the poor Cubans who have bravely attempted
to raid ports and start guerrilla action such
as Fidel Castro himself employed when he
fought his way Into power.
It seems to be regarded as legitimate for
the United States to encourage and assist in
guerrilla-type warfare in south Vietnam
against Communists there, but somehow the
effort of the Cuban patriots to rescue their
own country by similar tactics is frowned
upon officially in formal announcements
from the Department of State and the De-
partment of Justice. Neutrality laws are
cited as standing in the way. It is an-
nounced that such laws will be enforced by
the arrest of those Cuban patriots who at-
tempt to launch from American territory any
expeditions to wrest their homeland from Mr.
Castro and the Soviet troops.
Contradiction after contradiction, more-
over, has emerged to becloud the statements
issued by the U.S. Government. To take
refuge in the neutrality laws seems to be in
conflict with the following declaration on
March 12 by Secretary of State Dean Rusk:
. "Then we have felt, along with many
others of our allies, that the kind of Cuban
regime that we have today not only is not
fit to participate as a regime in the activities
of the inter-American system, but that with
its declaration of subversive and other types
of war upon the hemisphere, It is not en-
titled to normal economic or other relations
with the free world."
The neutrality laws were plainly designed
to apply to expeditions started on U.S.
territory against countries with which
the United States maintains friendly and
normal relations. But a state of war now
exists, for all practical purposes, between
Cuba and the United States. Also, a block-
ade was undertaken last autumn, and for-
eign ships were intercepted by the U.S. Navy.
In recent weeks Soviet-built Mig's, flying
from Cuba, have attacked unarmed Ameri-
can ships.
In the last several months, moreover, a
hostile military operation, involving the erec-
tion of bases equipped with missiles as well
as bomber planes, had been carried on inside
the territory of Cuba. This was aimed at
the United States. One wonders what more
proof the Government here needs that any
steps taken by this country to protect itself
are proper under international law and that
so-called "neutrality" laws do not apply in
the present circumstances to Cuba.
Actually, the constant use of air surveil-
lance by the United States over Cuban terri-
tory is not really in line with the customary
interpretation of the concept of "neutrality".
The continuous pressure by the Government
here upon other governments to boycott all
trade with Cuba is also hardly "neutral".
Secretary Rusk, in his March 12 speech,
said:
"Now, we are discovering with regard to
Cuba that, having failed to take the steps
that might have prevented in years past. the
establishment of a Marxist-Leninist regime
in Cuba, that the problem of finding a cure
is more difficult."
The foregoing might well be paraphrased
and applied today as the-administration, in-
stead of finding a cure, permits the Soviets
to strengthen their hold inside Cuba. -It has
even enlisted the help of Great Britain's
Navy to keep Cuban patriots from attempting
to regain their homeland.
. Mr. Rusk also said in his speech that "the
presence of Soviet forces in this hemisphere
cannot be accepted as a part of the normal
situation in this hemisphere."
But the Soviets not only have been infil-
trating Guatemala and Brazil, but they are
still maintaining a military force in Cuba,
less than a hundred miles away from the
coast of this country:
Senator STENNIS, Democrat, of Mississippi,
chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on
Military Affairs, said in a speech the other
day that "without positive action on our part,
our neighbors to the south may fall one by
one until the entire hemisphere is lost to ixs."
He added that he was convinced that "the
Cuban situation is the most immediate,
pressing, and important problem facing our
Nation today."
Yet the administration is using its influ-
ence to discourage a counter-revolutionary
movement against the Castro regime, which
deliberately invited the Soviet Government
to send troops and build missile bases in
Cuba. How can the United States justify a
policy of inaction against the Havana regime,
and invoke "neutrality" laws against the only
individuals who wish to risk "their lives,
their fortunes, and their sacred honor" to
overthrow a tyrannical dictatorship?
Predators on the Potomac
EXTENSION.OF REMARKS
OF
HON. JOHN D. DINGELL
OF MICHIGAN
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Tuesday, April 2, 1963
Mr. DINGELL. Mr. Speaker, pursu-
ant to permission granted I insert Into
the Appendix of the CONGRESSIONAL REC-
ORD an article appearing in the March
1963 Field & Stream chronicling the
sad feeling of frustration which lovers of
the outdoors feel in connection with the
wilderness bill now pending before the
Congress of the United States. The
article by Mr. Richard Starnes, a distin-
guished outdoorsman and conservation-
ist, should be read by people interested
in leaving a meaningful outdoor heritage
Approved For Release 2004/06/23 : CIA-RDP65B00383R000200250005-0
 Approved For Release 2004/06/23 : CIA-RDP65B00383R000200250005-0
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD --APPENDIX
friendship, perhaps with the offer of develop-
ing the Orange River hydroelectric project
as funds have been supplied for Ghana's
Volta River project.
But whereas, as Assistant Secretary of
State G. Mennen Williams said, the United
States gave 8210 million to new African
countries last year (not counting agricul-
tural commodities and Export-Import Bank
loans). South Africa Is not asking for a
cent from the United States and never has
done so. Nor is South Africa trafficking
with the enemies of the West in the slightest
degree. It Is openly and totally committed
to the cause of Western civilization without
any inducement from the U.S. Government.
Americans who realize that South Africa is
the most logical ally of the United States
on the African Continent can only wonder
what ideological attachments cause State
Department policy planners to turn their
face against the Republic. ? When the United
States votes with the Communist bloc and
the neutralists against the interests of South
Africa, the United States votes against its
own security-its own investments and its
own need for naval and air bases in time
of world conflict.
Nothing In all of Africa Is more important
in the cold war than keeping sea communica-
tions around the Cape of Good Hope in
Western hands. If a Communist regime
were to occupy Cape Town. It would repre-
sent a terrible threat to the United States,
England, Australia and associated countries.
Of equal Importance Is keeping South
Africa's tremendous Industrial machine and
wealth of natural resources In the free world
camp. If revolution should take place in
South Africa, or If that country should be
plunged Into chaos as a`result of outside in-
terference, the only industrial power In
Africa might fall Into the hands of the Sino-
Soviet bloc. South Africa's gold supplies, so
essential to the Western economy, would
then be an extra tool with which the Com-
munist world state could prepare America's
burial.
A free, Western-oriented South Africa is
a major source of strength for the United
States and Its Allies. Indeed one can be sure
that unless subverted by Afro-Marxists and
their masters In Moscow and Peiping, South
Africa will be the industrial colossus on the
African Continent In the years ahead. Al-
ready, while other African states talk of the
beginnings of generating electric power,
South Africa Is buying its first nuclear re-
actor.
Thousands of university students, trained
by professors who received their education at
Iowa State, Cornell, Stanford, Oxford, the
Sorbonne, and the University of Berlin, are
being graduated from South African Institu-
tions. The Council for Scientific and In-
dustrial Research Is putting these students
to work in development of the most modern
type of economy.
What this adds up to Is realization that
South Africa Is the key to the future of
Africa and the one essential ally for the
United States on a continent that will be
involved in the shaping of the world In the
next half century or more.
In all likelihood, South Africa is the only
nation In Africa that has a destiny as a major
power on a par with European countries.
The reasons are clear: a European population
with high standards of education. tremen-
dous investment In science, mineral riches,
abundant lands for growing food, a super
rail and air transportation system, a free
press, established parliamentary government,
and a vigorous way of life steeped in the
values of the Christian faith and European
civilization. In short, the South Africans
are the Americana of the African Continent.
While South Africa should enjoy the confi-
dence and sympathy of the US. Government
and the American people, the truths are ob-
scured by the lies told about the country.
Indeed It must be the most lied about nation
on earth. But statistical studies of the
country are eye opening to those who are
willing to see the truth.
South Africa. for example, produces 85 per-
cent of the coal in Africa and 97 percent of
the gold on the continent. The Republic is
a big producer of Iron ore, and shipments of
pig Iron to Japan will be a major Item in Its
oversee trade during the next few years. In
addition. South Africa produces 64 percetit
of the gold outside of the U.S.S.R., 48 per-
cent of the world's platinum; 39 percent of
the gem diamonds; and Is the third largest
producer of chromium, manganese, and ura-
nium. This is only part of the story of its
mineral wealth (its supplies of coal are prac-
tically unlimited), and thus South Africa is
the prize on the African Continent. Is It any
wonder that the Communists wish to domi-
nate its Government?
Industrialists from many nations have
commented on the wealth and power of
South Africa. Mr. Takeo Haragutahi. direc-
tor of one of Japan's largest industrial com-
panies, Hitatshl, Ltd., recently compared
three Industrially growing countries-South
Africa, Australia,. and Brazil. He declared
that South Africa In a decade will be In
a very high state of Industrialization and
that, with the resource of gold, It will be
one of the most economically secure econo-
mies In the world.
Dr. Anton Rupert, one of South Africa's
leading Industrialists, has asserted that his
country could become the workshop of the
continent of Africa. He has pointed out that
South Africa Is the obvious and natural
leader of Africa. Although only 4 percent of
Africa In area, South Africa Is responsible
for 30 percent of the production and income
of the continent,
An American observer whose views de-
serve the closest attention is former U.S.
Ambassador Philip K. Crowe. Ambassador
Crowe. who served during the Eisenhower
administration, has noted: "America has an
important financial Interest in South Africa.
Our total private Investment of upward of
half a billion dollars is more than we have
invested in all the rest of Africa put to-
gether. This investment, moreover, is based
on a viable and expanding economy."
Yet there are elements in America that
would disregard this United States stake in
South Africa precisely as they disregard a
similar stake in Cuba and where, like In
South Africa, they support a revolutionary
change In the form of government. But the
truth that should be apparent to every rea-
sonable American is that a Luthull regime In
Cape Town would be exactly like a Castro
regime in Havana, only more primitive and
given to atrocities.
Marcus D. Banghart. vice president of the
Newmont Mining Corp., an American bust-
ness man who knows and understands South
Africa and its potential. speaks ably for
those U. B. citizens who are appalled at poli-
cies that lead to abandonment of the Repub-
lic "The Republic of South Africa." he has
said, "is an outstanding example of the bene-
fits to a new land of individual enterprise,
capital and know-how."
The stun and substance of the South Afri-
can Industrial story is that the Republic is
a prime example of capitalist success. All
the people of South Africa, white and Bantu,
are profiting from a system that holds even
greater opportunities in the future.
The question for Americans Is very simple;
Do we want South Africa to remain on our
side-a part of our world and civilization?
Or are we content to see South Africa swal-
lowed up in an Afro-Marxist revolution and,
in short order, become a satellite and power-
house of the Soviet Union or the Chinese
People's Republic?
This is the question Americans must an-
swer for themselves.
Kennedy Deterioration infCubai3/A(fai
EXTENSION OF RI'ARKS
OF
HON. STEVEN B. DEROUNIAN
OF NEW YORK
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Monday, April 1, 1963
Mr. DEROUNIAN. Mr. Speaker,
President Kennedy has allowed the
action in Cuba to deteriorate to such an
extent that it Is now critical to the future
security of this hemisphere. David
Lawrence wrote on this in yesterday's
Washington Star as follows:
POLICY OP INACTION AGAINST CUBA-U.S.
ErrFoaTa -AGAINST ANTI-CASTRO ATTACKS
DESCRIBED As RESULT OF CONFUSioN
(By David Lawrence)
Confusion, if not frustration, today char-
acterizes the policy of the administration
toward Cuba.
Nearly 2 weeks have passed since President
Kennedy told a news conference that the
Soviet Government had withdrawn only
3,000 troops out of the 17,000 stationed on
Cuban soil. He then added:
"We are waiting to see whether more will
be withdrawn, as we would hope they would
be. The month of March Is not finished
yet, and we should have a clearer Idea as to
what the fatal numbers should be in the
coming days"
The month of March has passed, but the
clearer idea has still no)< materialized. The
only action that has been taken by the
administration is a sharp warning-not di-
rected to the Russion Government-but to
the poor Cubans who have bravely attempted
to raid ports and start guerrilla action such
as Fidel Castro himself employed when he
fought his way to power.
it seems to be regarded as legitimate for
the United States to encourage and assist
in guerilla-type warfare in South Vietnam
against Communists there, but somehow the
effort of the Cuban patriots to rescue their
own country by similar tactics is frowned
upon officially in formal announcements from
the Department of State and the Department
of Justice. Neutrality laws are cited as
cited as standing in the way. It is an-
nounced that such laws will be enforced by
the arrest of those Cuban patriots who at-
tempt to launch from American territory
any expeditions to wrest their homeland
from Mr. Castro and the Soviet troops.
Contradiction after contradiction, more-
over, has emerged to becloud the statements
Issued by the U.B. Government. To take
refuge in the neutrality laws seems to be in
conflict with the following declaration on
March 12 by Secretary of State Dean Rusk:
"Then we have felt, along with many
others of our allies, that the kind of Cuban
regime that we have today not only it not
fit to participate as a regime in the activ-
ities of the inter-American system, but that
with Its declaration of subversive and other
types of war upon the hemisphere, it is not
entitled to normal economic or other rela-
tions with the free world."
The neutrality laws were plainly designed
to apply to expeditions started on United
States territory against countries with which
the United States maintains friendly and
normal relations. But P. state of war now
exists, for all practical purposes, between
Cuba and the United States. Also, a block-
ade was undertaken last autumn, and foreign
ships were intercepted by the United States
Navy. In recent weeks Soviet-built MIGs,
flying from Cuba, have attacked unarmed
American ships.
In the last several months, moreover, a
hostile military operation, involving the erec-
Approved For Release 2004/06/23 : CIA-RDP65B00383R000200250005-0
 Approved For Release 2004/06/23 : CIA-RDP65B00383R000200250005-0
A1968 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -APPENDIX
pudiate every freedom fighter who takes up
arms against communism.
In Vietnam, young Americans are. being
killed by Communists with Russia-supplied
arms. Yet in the Caribbean, when young
Cubans harass their betrayer, Castro, and
the Russian occupation, the U.S. State De-
partment deplores It.
STANDOFF
Why?, Will the nuclear set now tell us
that unless, we atop the Alpha 86 raids
against Communist Cuba, there'll be nuclear
conflict?
This will sound fairly thin, since Defense
Secretary Robert McNamara himself last
week told Congress that we are in a "nuclear
standoff" with Russia.
The U.S. State Department knows very
well that the Alpha 68 raids are part of a
strategy aimed at overthrowing Castro.
Every raid Is followed by a burst of sabo-
tage against the Russian occupation. Does
our State Department not want this occu-
pation harassed?
Responsible members of the Senate For-
eign Relations Committee tell me they, can-
not believe the Department spoke seriously
against the Cuban patriots. They believe
this is another example of our Government's
use of the forked tongue-as advocated in
the managed news policy. If this is true, the
authors of this latest managed lie ought to
be taken out of their fear-distorted environ-
ment and subjected to the influence of ordi-
nary people who respect courage and "hate
tyranny.
The U.S. Information Service Chief, Ed-
ward R. Murrow, last week pleaded with
Congress for a 25-percent Increase In his
operation's - budget. So long as the V.S.
State Department's spokesmen are too terri-
fied to stand behind the principle of free-
dom and to "help our friends," as President
Kennedy promised in his election pledges,
then all the money spent for U.S. propa-
ganda will be so much paper and tarnish-
able silver down the drain.
[From the Evening.Star, Washington, D.C.,
Apr. 2, 19631
POLICY OF INACTION AGAINST CUBA
(By David Lawrence)
Confusion, if not frustration, today char-
acterizes the policy of the administration
toward Cuba.
Nearly 2 weeks have passed since President
Kennedy told a news conference that the So-
viet Government had withdrawn only 3,000
troops out of the 17,000 stationed on Cuban
soil. He then added:
"We are waiting to see whether more will
be withdrawn, as we would hope they would
be. The month of March is not finished yet,
and we should have a clearer idea as to
what the total numbers should be in the
coming days."
The month of March has passed, but the
clearer idea has still not materialized. The
only action that has been' taken by the ad-
ministration Is a sharp warning-not direct-
ed to the Russian Government-but to the
poor Cubans who have bravely attempted
to raid ports and 'start guerrilla actions such
as Fidel Castro himself employed when he
fought his way into. power.
It seems to be regarded as legitimate for
the United States to encourage and assist In
guerrilla-type warfare in South Vietnam
against Communists there, but somehow the
effort of the 'Cuban patriots.to rescue their
own country by similar tactics is frowned
upon officially in formal announcements
from the Department 'of State and the De-
partment of Justice. Neutrality laws are
cited as standing in the way. It Is an-
nounced that such laws will be enforced by
the arrest of those Cuban patriots who at-
tempt to launch from American territory
any expeditions to `wrest their homeland
from Mr. Castro and the Soviet troops.
Contradiction after contradiction, more-
over, has emerged to becloud the statements
issued by the U.S. Government. To take
refuge in the neutrality laws seems to be in
conflict with the following declaration on
March 12 by Secretary of State Dean Rusk:
"Then we - have felt, along with many
others of our allies, that the kind of Cuban
regime that we have today not only is not
fit to participate as a regime In the activities
of the inter-American system, but that.with
its declaration of subversive and other types
of war upon the hemisphere; it is not en-
titled to normal economic or other relations
with the free world."
The neutrality laws were plainly designed
to apply to expeditions started on U.S. ter-
ritory against countries with which the
United States maintains friendly' and normal
relations. But a state of war now exists, for
all practical purposes, between Cuba and
the United States. Also, a blockade was
undertaken last autumn, and foreign ships
were intercepted by the U.S. Navy. In re-
cent weeks Soviet-built Miffs, flying from
Cuba, have attacked unarmed American
ships.
In the last several months, moreover, a
hostile military operation, involving the
erection of bases equipped with missiles as
well as bomber planes, had been carried on
inside the territory of Cuba. This was
aimed at the United States. One wonders
that more proof the Government. here needs
that any steps taken by this country to pro-
tect itself are proper under international
law and that so-called neutrality laws do not
apply in the present circumstances to Cuba.
Actually, the constant use of air surveil-
lance by the United States over Cuban ter-
ritory Is not really in line with the customary
Interpretation of the concept of neutrality.
The continuous pressure by the Government
here upon other governments to boycott all
trade with Cuba is also hardly neutral.
Secretary Rusk, in his March 12 speech,
said:
"Now, we are discovering with regard to
Cuba that, having failed to take the steps
that might have prevented in years past the
establishment of a Marxist-Leninist regime
in Cuba, that the problem of finding a cure
is more difficult."
The foregoing might well be paraphrased
and applied today as the administration, in-
stead of finding a cure, permits the Soviets
to strengthen their hold inside Cuba. It has
even enlisted the help of Great Britain's
navy to keep Cuban patriots from attempting
to regain their homeland.
Mr. Rusk also said in his speech that "the
presence of Soviet forces In this hemisphere
cannot be accepted as a part of the normal
situation in this hemisphere."
But the Soviets not only have been infil-
trating Guatemala and Brazil, but they are
still maintaining a military force in Cuba,
less than a hundred miles away from the
coast of this country.
Senator STENNIS, Democrat, of Mississippi,
chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on
Military Affairs, said in a speech the other
day that, "without positive action on our
part, our neiglrJors to the south may fall
one by one until the entire hemisphere Is
lost to us." He added that he was convinced
that "the Cuban situation is the most Im-
mediate, pressing, and important problem
facing our Nation today."
Yet the administration is using its influ-
ence to discourage . a ' counterrevolutionary
movement against the Castro regime, which
deliberately invited the Soviet Government
to send troops and build missile bases in
Cuba. How can the United States justify a
policy of Inaction against the Havana regime
and invoke "neutrality" laws against the only
individuals who wish to risk "their lives, their
fortunes, and their sacred honor" to over-
throw a tyrannical dictatorship?
Avril 3
Texas, Minnesota Radio Stations Join in
Effort To Save Hemophilia Patient in
:Baylor Medical Center
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. RALPH YARBOROUGH
OF TEXAS
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
Wednesday, April 3, 1963
Mr. YARBOROUGH. Mr. President,
at Baylor Medical Center in Dallas, a 17-
year-old boy from Muskogee, Okla., Fred
Wallas has received more than 900 blood
transfusions, believed to be a record in
medical history. Many of the hundreds
of donors of blood for this young hemo-
philia patient were recruited as a result
of the efforts of News Director Dick
Moore of KBOX radio in Dallas and
other members of the KBOX staff, and
members of the staff of KDWB of St.
Paul, Minn. These radio stations have
jointly waged a stirring fight to save a
life.
I ask that an editorial from the Dallas
-Times Herald of March 9, 1963pand an
editorial broadcast by News Director
Moore of radio station KBOX be printed
in the Appendix of the RECORD as an ex-
ample of an unusual and stirring public
service project.
There being no objection, the editorials
were ordered to be printed in the REC-
ORD, as follows:
[From the Dallas Times Herald, Max. 9, 19631
Six FLYING TO DALLAS To AID HEMOPHILIAC
ST. PAUL, MINN.-Six employees of radio
station KDWB scheduled a flight tQ Dallas
Monday to donate a pint of blood each to a
young hemophiliac.
The station said it is undertaking the proj-
ect named "Flight for Life," to call atten-
tion to the plight of Fred Wallas, 17, of
Muskogee, Okla., a patient at Baylor Uni-
versity Medical Center, Dallas, and to Na-
tional Red Cross month.
Wallas has had nearly 800 pints of blood
since he underwent surgery last October.
11 KDWB announcers and diskjockeys who
will make the trip are Hal Murray, Art May,
Jim O'Neill, Rdndy Cook, Don Duchene, and
Dan Ronald. They will be greeted on their
arrival in Dallas by diskjockeys from station
KBOX.
KBOX RADIO EDITORIAL-WRITTEN AND BROAD-
CAST BY DICK MOORE, NEWS DIRECTOR, DAL-
LAS, TEX.
At Baylor Medical Center in Dallas there's
a young man from Muskogee, Okla., who
needs your help. He is 17-year-old Fred
Wallas. Fred holds a dubious distinction.
Since he entered Baylor Medical Center last
October he has received 800 pints of blood
by transfusion, an. alltime record in the
history of medical blood transfusions. Fred
suffers from hemophilia. He is what we
commonly refer to as a "bleeder." Authori-
ties At Baylor. and at Wadley Blood Center
tell us they can see no end to the trans-
fusions. Monday, diskjockeys from two ra-
dio station, IBOX here in Dallas, and
KDWB, St. Paul, Minn., join forces in a
combined effort to bolster blood donations
for Fred Wallas. The. six diskjockeys from
Minnesota will arrive by Braniff Airlines
Monday morning at Love Field in Dallas.
They will be met by six air personalities
from KBOX.'-"Together -the 12 will go to
Wadley Blood center and give of their blood.
Approved For Release 2004/06/23 : CIA-RDP65B00383R000200250005-0
 Approved For Release 2004/06/23 : CIA-RDP65B00383R000200250005-0
CONGRESSIONAL RECOR. "PENDIX A1967
Mr. President, on behalf of our distin-
guished colleague, the senior Senator
from Montana [Mr. MANSFIELD], and
myself, I ask unanimous consent that
the MEA's news release about its award
to Mr. Wright be printed in the Appen-
dix of the RECORD.
There being no objection, the news
release was ordered to be printed in the
as follows:
RECORD
,
NEWSMAN HONORED BY TEACHING PROFESSION Mr. MACGREGOR. Mr. Speaker, an aIder attacking the occupying Soviet tanks
Teachers don't always get the apples, October 15. 1980, the then candidate with their bare fists and hand-made gre-
e
occasionally they give them. This happened John F. Kennedy said in Johns- - nades. But them. they Andid. d despite You, couldn't ave
in Helena when W. Preston "Luke" Wright, town, Pa.: prevented
of Helena. chief of the Capitol bureau of the We must end the harassment, which this repression, it was a revolt for freedom which -
Great Falls Tribune since 1945, was awarded Government has carried on, of liberty-loving was worth all the bravery that went into it.
the teaching profession's Golden Apple Citi- anti-Castro forces in Cuba and other lands. Hungary is better off today for it.
zenship Award at the banquet session of the While we cannot violate international law, Admittedly there are risks for the United
Montana Education Association's annual we must recognize that these exiles and States in the Cuban hit-and-run raids. Cas-
delegate assembly which met in Helena rebels represent the real voice of Cuba, and tro might sink an American boat in a spasm
March 29-30. should not be constantly handicapped by of anger. But might It not be better to deal
The award, consisting of a gold lapel pin our Immigration and Justice Department with such an Incident than to say that the
in the shape of an apple and a hand-lettered authorities. Cuban freedom fighters must not decide
certificate which cited Wright for "contribu- how they shall fight for their freedom?
tions to an informed citizenry in the State of This statement is in striking contrast The administration has said it "will not be
soil." forces bare
Montana," was presented in recognition of with the State and Justice Department content until me lCuban ast of
e
"outstanding reporting of affairs of state, announcements over the past weekend
and especially for objective news coverage and subsequent United States and Brit- honestly argued that the refugee raids may
of education at all levels." action based on those state- provide an excuse for Moscow to keep Soviet
Wright was introduced to an audience of Ish naval troops in Cuba. The opposite may be nearer
several hundred delegates attending the ban- ments. the truth. Is it likely that finding things
quet by,Mrs. Valborg H. Graham of Billings. The following columns by Roscoe calm in Cuba will provide any Incentive for
chairman of the Montana Education Asso- Drummond in the April 2 Washington Khruehchev to call his troops home?
ciation's citizenship committee which spon- Post, Virginia Prewett in the April 2 In 1960 Mr. Kennedy proposed that we
sors the awarding of the honor to a lay Washington Daily News, and David would "do more" to help the?Cuban resisters
person who makes s significant contribution Lawrence in the April 2 Washington "both Inside and outside Cuba." Now that
to the advancement of education in Montana. Star effectively point out the desperate the refugees are regaining their morale after
s. It
of the awad was made by
seems Maurice tHickey, of Ennlsr, pof the need for the Kennedy administration to eastBathat the United Statescshoulde end
Montana Education Association. explain its Cuba policy to the Congress the FBI and the Coast Guard after them.
The Helena newsman, dean of reporters on and the American people: Telling the Cuban resisters what not to
affairs of state, was nominated for the teach- [From the Washington Post, Apr. 2, 19631 do isn't going to further the cause of a free
ing profession's award for his reporting of WHY STAND IN THE WAY Cuba. If the administration is convinced
legislative affairs, and coverage of meetings (By Roscoe Drummond) that the Cuban refugees are doing it wrong,
of the State board of education and the then at the very least it should be making
board of university regents. By translating Many Americans must feel both confused suggestions and helping them to do it right.
difficult legislative Interpretations and edu- and frustrated by the difference between
cational terminology into layman's language, what the Administration says about Castro's (D.C.) Daily News,
Wright has done much through the years to Cuba and what It does. [From the Apr. Washington 1963]
give the public a better understanding of the Unquestionably, President Kennedy seeks U.S. POLICY 2,
CUBA DEPLORED
Important educational problems that have the goal of a "free Cuba." He told the re-
confronted Montana citizens. leased Cuban invasion prisoners on their re- (By Virginia Prewett)
A native of Indiana. Wright started his turn to Florida that he was confident their The U.S. State Department spokesman who
newspaper career In Colorado, covering his battalion flag would fly victoriously In called the daring and gallant Alpha 66 raids
first legislativesession in that State in 1923. Havana' on Cuba irresponsible acts that helped Cas-
But when those Cubans hit at the Castro tro's cause, reached an slltime low in pro-
In addition to working on papers in Denver and Soviet forces, the President wants them
and Pueblo, Colo., he has worked on papers stop it nouncement of U.S. foreign policy.
in Des Moines and Newton, Iowa. Prior to Vice President LvNDow JoHNsoN tells the In Biblical times, the authors of this
statement would have assailed young David
coming to Helena, he spent a year as a re- graduating class of the Inter-American Dc-
search assistant to the publisher of Business fense College that we "cannot be content un- for going up against Goliath. They'd have
Week magazine In New York City. til communism is gone from Cuba." said his inspiring victory of right over might
A capable speaker who punctuates factual But when the Cuban refugee" who are "helped the Philistines." And they'd prob-
reporting with witticism, Wright has ad-
dressed several school administrators' con-
ferences, a summer seminar of administrators
at the university, and a Montana Education
Association convention. He has a standing
invitation to address the Great Falls Rotary
Club after every session of the legislature.
He is proud of his 25-year pin as a member
of the Great Falls Newspaper Guild and his
in
.membership (the only one in Mont,,,,a)
make contact. For years, U.S. cold war propaganda has
Fight-
the Education Writers Association, a select Until the administration makes a more hailed he gallant Hungarian Freedom Fnational organization. persuasive case against the Cuban refugee's hFreedo
the world's gr Communist power. er. Yet
wife, the former Lois Swanke, has been harassing their oppressors every chance they era ed last week, t challenged
His
operating a readiness school in the Capital get, my Instinct Is on the side of the refugees. last chided Cuba's aiett test dedicated democracy
youny
City for the past 5 years. She is a former I think a good case can be made that the officially for proving that the fortress dung
public school teacher, having taught at refugee raids are useful and that we ought patriots
not invulnerable.
Malta, Chinook, Great Falls, and Helena. not to discourage them or stand In the way.
The Wright's one son. John, Is an engineer at We say we want the Castro regime over- When the State Department calls these
Helena's TV station, KBLL. thrown. We say that only the Cuban people raids irresponsible, by inference they re-
U.S. Policy
can bring it about, With those two condi-
tions, who is to begin the process unless it 18
the Cuban refugees?
EXTENSION OF REMARKS You may believe that the hit-and-run
or raids are only insignificant, hectoring pin-
pricks. ulku D w p+ f+ftn So were Castro's first hit-and run
HON. CLARK MacGREGOR attacks on Batista. The only way to begin
or MINNESOTA is to begin.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Remember Hungary? Surely any prudent
man could have told the latent and ferment-
Wednesday, April 3, 1963 ing Hungarian freedom fighters that it would
those who have taken It from them, take ac- In colonial times, these spokesmen would
tion to do something about it. the highest have condemned the Boston Tea Party as
officials of the administration express only "irresponsible"-and said it helped the
disapproval. British.
Thus far President Kennedy has given no They would have deplored the French
adequate explanation as to why he does not maquis' harassment of the Nazi occupation
want the anti-Castro Cubans to fight the troops while Hitler ruled Europe.
Approved For Release 2004/06/23 : CIA-RDP65B00383R000200250005-0
 Approved For Release 2004/06/23 : CIA-RDP65B00383R000200250005-0
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE April 3
troops out of the 17,000 stationed on Cuban
soil. He then added:
"We are waiting to see whether more will
be withdrawn, as we would hope they would
be. The month of March is not finished yet
and we should have a clearer idea as to what
the total numbers should be in the coming
days."
The month of March has passed, but the
clearer idea has still not materialized. The
only action that has been taken by the ad-
ministration Is a sharp warning-not di-
rected to the Russian Government-but to
the poor Cubans who have bravely attempted
to raid ports and start guerrilla action such
as Fidel Castro himself employed when he
fought his way into power.
It seems to be regarded as legitimate for
the United States to encourage and assist
in guerrilla-type warfare in south Vietnam
against Communists there, but somehow the
effort of the Cuban patriots to rescue their
own country by similar tactics is frowned
upon officially in formal announcements
from the Department of State and the De-
partment of Justice. Neutrality laws are
cited as standing in the way. It is an-
nounced that such laws will be enforced
by the arrest of those Cuban patriots who
attempt to launch from American territory
any expeditions to wrest their homeland
from Mr. Castro and the. Soviet troops.
Contradiction after contradiction, more-
over, has emerged to becloud the statements
issued by the U.S. Government. To take
refuge in the neutrality laws seems to be in
'conflict with the following declaration on
March 12 by Secretary of State Dean Rusk:
"Then we have felt, along with many others
of our allies, that the kind of Cuban regime
that we have today not only is not fit to
participate as a regime in the activities of
the inter-American lystem, but that with
its declaration of subversive and other types
of war upon the hemisphere; it is not entitled
to normal economic or other relations with
the free world." -
The neutrality laws were plainly designed
to apply to expeditions started on U.S. ter-
ritory against countries with which the
United States maintains friendly and nor-
mal ? relations. But a state of war now
exists, for all practical purposes, between
Cuba and the United States. Also, a block-
ade was undertaken last autumn, and foreign
ships were intercepted by the U.S. Navy. In
recent weeks Soviet-built Mig's, flying from
Cuba, have attacked- unarmed American
ships.
In the last several months, moreover, a
hostile military operation, involving the erec-
tion of bases equipped with missiles as well
as bomber planes, had been carried on in-
side the territory of Cuba. This was aimed
at the United States. One wonders what
more proof the Government here needs that
any steps taken by this country to protect
itself are proper under international law and
that so-called neutrality laws do not apply
in the present circumstances to Cuba.
Actually, the constant use of air surveil-
lance by the United States over Cuban ter-
ritory is not really in line with the custom-
ary interpretation of the concept of "neu-
trality." The continuous pressure by the
Government here upon other governments
to boycott all trade with Cuba is also hardly
"neutral."
Secretary Rusk, in his March 12 speech,
said: -
"Now, we are discovering with regard to
Cuba that, having failed to take the steps
that might have prevented in years past the
establishment of a Marxist-Leninist regime
in Cuba, that the problem of finding a cure
is more difficult."
The foregoing might well be paraphrased
and applied today as the administration, in-
stead of finding a cure, permits the Soviets
to strengthen their hold inside Cuba. It
has even enlisted the help of Great Britain's
navy to keep Cuban patriots from attempt-
ing to regain their homeland.
Mr. Rusk also said in his speech that "the
presence of Soviet forces in this hemisphere
cannot be accepted as a part of the normal
situation in this hemisphere."
But the Soviets not only have been infil-
trating Guatemala and Brazil, but they are
still maintaining a military force in Cuba,
less than a hundred miles away from the
coast of this country.
Senator STENNIS, Democrat, of Mississippi,
chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on
Military Affairs, said in a speech the other
day that, "without positive action on our
part, our neighbors to the south may fall
one by one until the entire hemisphere is
lost to us." He added that he was convinced
that "the Cuban situation is the most im-
mediate, pressing, and important problem
facing our Nation today."
Yet the administration is using its influ-
ence to discourage a counterrevolutionary
movement against the Castro regime, which
deliberately invited the Soviet Government
to send troops and build missile bases in
Cuba. How can the United States justify a
policy of inaction against the Havana regime
and invoke "neutrality" laws against the
only individuals who wish to risk "their
lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor"
to overthrow a tyrannical dictatorship?
[From the Washington News, Apr. 2, 19631
U.P. POLICY ON CUBA DEPLORED
(By Virginia Prewett)
The U.S. State Department spokesman who
called the daring and gallant Alpha 66 raids
on Cuba "irresponsible acts" that helped
Castro's cause reached an alltime low in
pronouncement of U.S. foreign policy.
In Biblical times, the authors of this state-
ment would have assailed.young David for
going up against Goliath. They'd have said
his inspiring victory of right over might
"helped the Philistines." And they'd prob-
ably have taken away his slingshot.
In colonial times, these spokesmen would
have condemned the Boston Tea Party
as "irresponsible"-and said it helped the
British.
They would have deplored the French ma-
quis' harassment of the Nazi occupation
troops while Hitler ruled Europe.
OFFICIAL
For years, U.S. cold war propaganda has
failed the gallant Hungarian freedom fighters
who challenged Communist power. Yet last
week, the world's greatest democracy officially
chided Cuba's dedicated young patriots for
proving that the fortress Cuba is not in-
vulnerable.
When the State Department calls these
raids "irresponsible," by inference they re-
pudiate every freedom fighter who- takes up
arms against communism.
In Vietnam, young Americans are-being
killed by Communists with Russia-supplied
arms. Yet in Caribbean, when young Cu-
bans harass their betrayer, Castro, and the
Russian occupation, the U.S. State Depart,
ment deplores it.
STANDOFF
Why? Will the nuclear set now tell us
that unless we stop the Alpha 66 raids
against Communist Cuba, there'll be nuclear
conflict?
This will sound fairly thin, since Defense
Secretary Robert McNamara himself last week
told Congress that we are in a "nuclear
standoff" with Russia.
The U.S. State Department knows very
well that the Alpha 66 raids are part
of a strategy aimed at overthrowing Castro.
Every raid is followed by a burst of sabo-
tage against the Russian occupation. Does
our State Department not want this occupa-
tion harassed?
Responsible members of the Senate For-
eign Relations Committee tell me they can-
not believe the Department spoke seriously
against the Cuban patriots. They believe
this is an another example of our Govern-
ment's use of the forked tongue-as advo-
cated in the managed news policy. If this is
true, the authors of this latest managed lie
ought to be taken out of their fear-distorted
environment and subjected to the influence
of ordinary people who respect courage and
hate tyranny.
The U.S. Information Service Chief Ed-
ward R. Murrow, last week pleaded with
Congress for a 25 percent increase in his
operation's budget. So long as the U.S. State
Department's spokesmen are too terrified to
stand behind the principle of freedom and
to help our friends, as President Kennedy
promised in his election pledges, then all
the money spent for U.S. propaganda will
be so much paper and tarnishable silver down
the drain.
HOSPITAL INSURANCE FOR THE
ELDERLY
NEED FOR ACTION
Mr. HUMPHREY. Mr. President, the
need for a fiscally sound method of fi-
nancing health care in old age has be-
come severe in the past decade. In part,
the problem is due to the spectacular
progress that has been made in medical
technology, which has been a principal
reason for the greater numbers of people
who live to suffer the illnesses that ac-
company old age. Changing technology
has also rapidly increased the cost of
medical care. For the aged, the increas-
ing cost of health care and the increas-
ing need for it have not been matched
by an, adequate method of financing it.
The crux of the problem of paying for
health care in old age can be summed
up in a few words. The average health
costs of people age 65 and over are twice
as high as those of younger people while
the incomes of the older group are only
half as high. A look at the facts is
enough to show that there can be no
doubt about the magnitude of the prob-
lem..
First. Nine out of ten elderly people go
to the hospital at least once between age
65 and death. Most people who reach
age 65 go to a hospital two or three times
before they die; an elderly couple can
expect about five hospital stays during
their later years.
Second. When a person aged 65 or
over goes to a hospital he stays, on the
average, 15 days, twice as long as does
the average younger. person..
Third. Only half of the couples headed
by an elderly person have incomes of as
much as $2,500 per year; the comparable
figure for younger couples is $5,300 a
year.
Fourth. Only about half of the people
65 or over who live alone have incomes
of more than $1,000 a year; half of the
younger people who live alone have in-
comes exceeding $2,500 a year.
Fifth. About one-half .,of the elderly
have no health insurance; and much of
the health insurance that the other half
has is worth very little to them in the
event of a serious illness.
Sixth. The cost of a day's care in. . a
hospital more than doubled from 1951
to 1961; during those 10 years the- aver-
age daily costs went up from $16.77 to
$34.98. In Minnesota, hospital costs are
Approved For Release 2004/06/23 : CIA-RDP65B00383R000200250005-0
 Approved For Release 2004/06/23 : CIA-RDP65B00383R000200250005-0
1963 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE
+, nd a future leader who will inspection or a demand for Identification.
V, 4
5309
s
C em y, Certainly, this 1e freedom.
had a num- Mr. S -Mr. President, in the
doubtless continue to bring credit to him-
I h
d
ave
.
Iwork--have worke
self and his family, his community, and ber of jobs I quit one when school started face of the administration's utterances
to his native State. and was able to choose another that inter- on behalf of the cause of Cuban freedom
Mr. President. the event of the Veter- ested me. The freedom to work as one wants the weekend action in restricting Cuban
ans of Foreign Wars was especially to work. When I collect my pay I am free to exile leaders, together with announce-
meaningful to me because it provided an spend It on the ample bounty that freedom meat of the U.S. role in the capture of
excellent opportunity to confer with provides. When I pay for a thing, it is mine. an exile ship in the Caribbean must make
knowledgeable Americans on certain of I own it. The thing becomes a part of the pretty frustrating and unsavory fare for
the problems which today confront vet- meaning of me.
erans. Earlier in the day these citizens There, that's it-the meaning of me. The the American public.
had visited the offices of many of the meaning of me and freedom are so closely The Justice Department has invoked
Members of Congress, including my own, allied that it becomes impossible to separate the Neutrality Act to justify a halt to
the identities. Most of all, I think that free- refugee attempts to encourage guerrilla
to talk over particular areas of legislative don, Is me. I live In a State of unhampered activity in Cuba by shdwing that there
interest. aboundance of myself and my mind. No, not still exists, an anti-Castro resistance
Among those proposals discussed and in any conceited or egotistical way, but in a effort.
which has elicited wide support through- manner that permits me to become. If i to imagine the frustra-
48, the country was Senate Resolution accept the responsibility, a fully developed It Lion is of the not hard hardtto ion ethes as tra
48, a bill to amend the Rules of the Sen- and knowledgeable person. they
ate to provide for a permanent Commit- Laws are made, have been made giving me watch their nation being raped and rav-
the right to be myself. I can get angry and aged by a Communist regime dominated
tee on Veterans' Affairs. Asa cosponsor criticize the police, the Government-there by European communism, in direct vio-
of this measure, along with several other will be no reprisals, no violence done to me. Doctrine Nation every
Members, I am convinced that the mag- Sometimes i tend to abuse this privilege and lotion al of f the Monroe
which Doctria anon hasto this
nitude and scope of problems and inter- forget the enormous responsibility which ac- moral
subscribed.
ests now facing veterans requires the es- companies it. If I have this right, then ever tablishment of a full time and qualified those whozh I criticize also have the Same The Cubans watched the United States
Senate committee to administer to their right. Their opinions and beliefs are to be ramrod the half-planned Bay of Pigs
needs. Likewise. I am confident that respected-by me. I tend to forget It in the invasion and then refuse even to pick
after thorough examination of the situ- complete security that freedom becomes. the wounded off the beaches. They
And when I realize this, I realize that per- watched the United States vacillate, and
anon as it exists today, my colleagues haps the greatest threat to freedom is sel- indecisiveness the cornerstone of
will be moved to agree, and we will pro- fishness. its make Cuban policy, and last month hof
ceed to expeditious and favorable action it is a sobering thought. The kind of a
on Senate Resolution 48. thought that makes me wonder If I have been saw the issue of Communist Cuba quietly
damaging freedom, my own freedom and brushed under the rug at Costa Rica.
sense of security in other ways. I must ask It now seems to those Cubans-who
WHAT FREEDOM MEANS TO ME myself, what other freedoms do I enjoy? owe much of their misfortune to the
Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. President, the I have beliefs. I am entitled to them. ineptitudes of this Government-that
I have ambitions. I am obligated to them. we have done an abdut face in even the
greatest blessing have as Americans is I have needs and desires, fears, and simple concept of right and wrong.
the wonderful gift t of personal freedom worries. Yet I am positive that my life will The blockade of which the White
which is denied over half the world. find a way to fulfill and overcome them.
A senior at the high school in Lander, What are the instruments of freedom that House is in such fear has again been im-
Wyo., Miss Valerie Goss. expressed in allow this? I am safeguarded by law. Laws posed, only this time it is a blockade
beautiful and compelling prose the which are closely and carefully scrutinized around the exiles themselves while the
meaning of freedom in an essay that won for their fairness, for their complete con- bearded dictator of Cuba languishes in
for her State honors In the Voice of sideration of the Individual living the law. the safety of our protective coexistence
No one shall be favored; no one shall be policy.
Democracy contest. deprived. What a perfect, yet simple and A realization of the admissions in-
Freedom is-as Miss Goss so accurate- sensible thing Is the law. Despite its com-
ly describes it-an Intensely personal plexity. It can be reduced to a statement of herent in the administration's antiexile
thing that all of us as Americans possess principles. No one shall be favored; no one action was not long in coming. The
at birth. We will pass it on to our chil- shall be deprived. Even those small and restrictions, at first praised by both
dren only as long as we dedicate our- annoying representatives of the law, such Be parties and the press, are now being
selves to preserving it. stoplights. arp there to prevent me from in- strongly questioned.
With the consent of the Senate I fringemnnt of the security of others' free- Yesterday's press carried two excel-
should They, in turn, are respecting me and lent editorials which presented some val-
winning like to place Miss Goss' award- my rights in such a small thing as stopping
winning essay, "What Freedom Means to for a truffle signal. id political and moral arguments fav-
Me," in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. When I study at the library on week oring the refugees' position and giving
There being no objection, the essay nights, I often got a great impression of the the United States-as the Nation which
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, Stacks of books-sentinels of knowledge. once symbolized freedom to the world's
as follows: Knowledge guarding me and my rights. I oppressed people-something to think
WHAT FREEDOM MEANS TO ME have a sense of heritage before so much about,
knowledge. The more I study it, the greater I recommend to my constituents a
An intensely personal thing, freedom. is my sense that all knowledge seems to re-
Washington Star editorial by publisher
I'm not going to tell you what freedom affirm and convince that freedom is the In-
Isn't. suitable course of good and right.
With my own eyes I see freedom around I think one of the places most Americans article by Virginia Prewett in the Wash-
me. It is a quiet thing generally. Young stop and get a sense of freedom Is in our ington News, and I ask unanimous con-
people in a library, or listening attentively massive accomplishments, a sese of cities with sky- sent that they be printed in the RECORD.
to a teacher lecture. It can be as beautifully scrapers, gigantic dams, and hydraulic Ste- There being no objection, the edi-
silent as people praying in a church, or as tions-on Mount Rushmore with those torial and article were ordered to be
noisy as political campaigns with brass bier- serene faces. It takes something massive printed in the RECORD, as follows:
ing, cheering and fiery oratory.
Freedom is security-not stocks, bonds, and big to commemorate the vastness and amplitude of freedom. {From the Washington Star, Apr. 2, 19631
dividends and Interest, but security. The POLICY OF INACTION AGAINST CUBA-U.S.
right to wake up in the morning and feel And yet, It Is so completely a personal EFFORTS AGAINST ANTI-CASTRO ATTACKS
alive. The right to experience and feel all thing. Quiet, noisy, small, in any size- D Rm As RESULT or CoNTOOION
the wonders and sorrows of living. I said freedom to the person who Is free. Freedom (A David Lawrence)
that freedom is an intensely personal thing, is the guarantee of the person. To someone ,
and it is. like me who is in the process of becoming Confusion, if not frustration, today char-
Freedom is as small a thing as being able an adult citizen-freedom is thoroughly acterizes the policy of the administration to-
to leave your home In the morning. It grows linked with the process of maturation of ward Cuba.
as the morning grows. A person gets into personality. Nearly 2 weeks have passed since President conference
tha e
a car and drives away on a trip crossing State thing. freedom Is such an Intensely personal Kennedy y told a uews
had withdrawn o bat the
lines and boundaries uninterrupted by p0t g?
Approved For Release 2004/06/23 : CIA-RDP65B00383R000200250005-0
 Approved For Release 2004/06/23 : CIA-RDP65B00383R000200250005-0
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -"HOUSE
and invoke neutrality laws against the only
individuals who wish to risk their lives,
their fortunes, and their sacred honor to
overthrow a tyrannical dictatorship?
BACK-DOOR FINANCING
(Mr. HARVEY of Michigan asked
and was given permission to address the
House for 1 minute and to revise and
extend his remarks.)
Mr. HARVEY of Michigan. Mr.
Speaker, about a week ago we learned
the Democratic leadership was conduct-
ing a . secret poll to see if its majority
membership would support the action of
the House Banking and Currency Com-
mittee in reporting out a bill authorizing
a $2 billion increase in lending authori-
zation for the Export-Import Bank with
such increase to be financed on a back-
door financing basis.
I commend to the attention of the
Democratic leadership another poll, an
open poll, taken yesterday on the floor
of the Senate on the question of back-
door financing. The newspaper report
in the April 2 Evening Star, over a three-
column headline, reports "Transit Bill
Is Stripped of Back-Door Financing."
The article reports the Senate yesterday,
by unanimous action, struck out the
back-door financing provision in the re-
ported mass transit bill and substituted
therefor the financing of the program
under the regular appropriation process.
Mr. Speaker, in my opinion, this shbluld
make clear to the Democratic leadership
on this side that back-door financing is
a "dead duck" ,in programs to be consid-
ered by this Congress.
When the Export-Import Bank bill
was considered by our committee In ex-
ecutive session I offered an amendment
to place the additional $2 billion of lend-
ing authority under an appropriation
process similar to that adopted by the
House last year with respect to the $2
billion increase In authorization for the
International Monetary Fund. This
amendment was defeated on a straight
party vote and the bill was reported with
the financing on a back-door basis.
When the Export-Import Bank bill Is
brought to the floor of the House I shall
again offer my amendment to knock
out the back-door financing for the In-
creased authorization and subject it to
the regular appropriation process. I
full well realize, Mr. Speaker, that I may
be denied the opportunity of offering
this amendment purely because under
parliamentary procedure a member of
the majority may be recognized to offer
the amendment. However that may be,
I predict that when the House acts on
the Export-Impart Bank bill an over-
whelming majority of this bodyWill vote
to strike the back-door financing pro-
vision from the bill and substitute In lieu
thereof the lgnguage of my amendment,
which is the Republican position, to
place the financing of the increased
lending authorization under the regular
appropriation process.
DEMOCRATIC BUGABOOS
(Mr. HALLECK asked and was given
permission to address the House for 1
April 3
minute and to revise and extend his Mr. HALLECK. In due time you will
remarks.) find out. Our projection on the first
Mr. HALLECK. Mr. Speaker, Mon- proposals we had for reduction in the
day was April Fools' Day, but to read the Interior Department appropriation was
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD this morning, one a little over $100 million. That projec-
might think Halloween somehow had tion was proved substantially correct,
already arrived on April 2. and I hope it will be proved correct as
Certainly the Democrat leader on the we go along.
other side of the aisle paraded the weird- I cannot quite understand the concern
est assortment of ghosts, goblins, and of my very beloved friend, the majority
horror stories within my memory. leader, who, with a 3-to-2 majority, is
The purpose was obvious: to scare the so concerned about what we in the
d
li
ay
ghts . out of the country with
trumped-up threats of what will happen
if we in the Congress are successful in
bringing some semblance of sanity into
the Kennedy administration's spending
proposals.
Fortunately, there was no more sub-
stance to this witch's brew of specula-
tion on what we have in mind in the
way of budget cuts than there is in a
spook.
And I might add that the timing for
this presentation, was just about as far
off as Halloween itself.
This body had just demonstrated that
our position on budget cutting is sound
and responsible by chopping something
in the neighborhood of a hundred million
dollars from the budget of the Depart-
ment of Interior and related agencies.
This figure substantially vindicated the
Republican task force projection of this
bill, the first we have considered in the
current session.
Moreover, President Kennedy had just
sent the Congress a message on foreign
assistance in which he backed down $400
million from his original proposal.
I cannot help but wonder what terri-
fying results our friends on the other side
imagine the President's reduction in this
program may have on our economy and
our foreign relations.
Or does it make a difference just who
suggests economy?
Let me again assure -my colleagues
from the other side of the aisle: we are
not going to be frightened off by buga-
boos-and I do not think the American
people are going. to panic, either.
Quite obviously, the administration
has been getting a taste of unfavorable
public reaction to the idea of planned
deficit spending and is responding with
some moves of its own in the direction
of economy.
This we applaud as at least a step-
however reluctantly it may be taken-
in the right direction.
As Republicans we do not care who
cuts down on excessive spending, just
so it is cut.
Meanwhile, we intend to stick by our
guns and fight, item by item, for appro-
priations levels that meet the needs of
our economy and our military security
and against appropriations levels for
which no real justification can be estab-
lished.
Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Speaker, will the
gentleman yield?
Mr. HALLECK. I yield to the gentle-
man from Oklahoma.
Mr. ALBERT. May I ask my friend if
he will not please take the Members of
the House and the American people into
his confidence and tell them just where
these $15 billion in cuts can be made?
minority are going to do in respect to
saving money, but we have kept this on,
a bipartisan basis and we want it kept
that way. I must say that, from reading
the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD this morning,
the folks downtown must have been
working nights conjuring up some of
those hair-raising yarns.
Mr. ALBERT. Does not the gentle-
man think the American people ought to
know and want to know what kind of
operation my friends are going to try to
perform on the budget?
Mr. HALLECK. We have said we 'a01
re
going to do our best to cut this budget.
We obviously cannot do it unless we get
some help from the gentleman's side of
the aisle, but I am incined to believe that
a lot of people around here, including
some folks downtown, are hearing from
the country. Beyond that, as I say, we
will be responsible in our efforts. I just
hope'that the people of the country
reading the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD this
morning, where you have listed the proj-
ects that will be gone and the jobs that
will be lost and the contractors who will
be thus affected-I trust these readers
realize that you have already projected
these things to come, so we will just go
along and prove that projection was far
wide of the mark.
Mr. LAIRD., Mr. Speaker, will the
gentleman yield?
Mr. HALLECK. I yield to the gentle-
man from Wisconsin.
Mr. LAIRD. May I say to the gentle-
man from Indiana that the chairman of
the House Committee on Appropriations,
the distinguished gentleman from Mis-
souri (Mr. -CANNON], has estimated that
our committee has reduced the new ob-
ligational authority by some $10 billions.
Our committee is not putting out the
exact figures on the House Appropria-
tion bills in advance. Those committee
reports will be released after action by
the House Appropriations Committee. I
think it would not be wise even for the
gentleman from Missouri CMr. CANNON]
to release item by item his breakdown
before the committee actually takes ac-
tion. I would hope that the gentleman
from Indiana would not release any in-
formation until the House Appropria-
tions Committee has had an opportunity
to act on each individual bill in execu-
tive session.
Mr. HALLECK. Of course, that was
indicated by the chairman of the task
force sometime ago.
Mr. ALBERT. May I ask the gentle-
man one more question: Does not the
gentleman feel that the American people
are entitled to have the gentleman take
them into his confidence?
Mr. HALLECK. I happen to believe
that the American people have a little
Approved For Release 2004/06/23 : CIA-RDP65B00383R000200250005-0
 1963 '
Approved For Release 2004/06/23 : CIA-RDP65B00383R000200250005-0
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 5235
The committee findings are that, even
though the Castro Communist forces in
Cuba are incapable without outside assist-
ance of successfully mounting an offensive
blow, this "does not minimize the Com-
munist threat to inter-American security."
The committee then says bluntly that "no
plan for collective action against Com-
munist subversive aggression has been put
into effect" by the countries of the hemi-
sphere.
The report points out that, because no
clear and unified hemispheric policy dealing
with the Castro Communist subversive ag-
gression has been developed, some of the
members of the Organization of American
States "have not devised effective Internal
methods of controlling subversive traffic in
and through their territories."
It is asserted emphatically that Cuba's
dependence on the Soviet Union Is complete
and that the regime "is in fact controlled
and operated by trained professional agents
from the Soviet bloc." The House subcom-
mittee report states flatly that "the Soviet
Union must be held accountable for such
subversive aggression in the Americas."
It adds that the "violent overthrow of
existing governments remains the unified
aim of Communist forces In Latin America,"
which include both the "Soviet and Chinese
branches of international communism."
But what to do about it? The subcom-
mittee makes four principal recommenda-
tions, as follows:
"1. In accord with the joint resolution of
Congress, October 3, 1962, section (A), Im-
mediate steps should be taken by the United
States 'to prevent by whatever means may
be necessary, including the use of arms,
the Marxist-Leninist regime in Cuba from
extending, by force or the threat of force,
its aggressive or subversive activities to any
part of the hemisphere.'
"2. The United States should be prepared
to act-with military force, if needed, in re-
sponse to the request for help and assistance
of any nation of the hemisphere in danger
of being overthrown by Castro Communist
subversive aggression. This recommenda-
tion is In no way to be considered as a sub-
stitute for or a bar to unilateral action by
the United States In defense of its own
security. .
"3. Every effort must be made by the
United States to assure collective action by
the Organization of American States, and
by OAS member states individually, toward
the curbing of Castro Communist subversive
activities and traffic in the hemisphere.
"4. The United States should seek the com-
plete diplomatic and economic quarantine
of Communist Cuba by other nations of the
hemisphere."
nounced that such laws will be enforced
by the arrest of those Cuban patriots who
attempt to launch from American territory
any expeditions to wrest their homeland
from Mr. Castro and the Soviet troops.
Contradiction after contradiction, more-
over, has emerged to becloud the statements
issued by the U.S. Government. To take ref-
uge in the neutrality laws seems to be in
conflict with the following declaration on
March 12 by Secretary of State Dean Rusk:
"Then we have felt, along with many
others of our allies, that the kind of Cuban
regime that we have today not only Is not
fit to participate as-a regime In the activities
of the Inter-American system, but that with
its declaration of subversive and other types
of war upon the hemisphere, it is mot en-
titled to normal economic or other relations
with the free world."
The neutrality laws were plainly designed
to apply to expeditions started on U.S. ter-
ritory against countries with which the
United States maintains friendly and nor-
mal relations. But a state of war now
exists. for all practical purposes, between
Cuba and the United States. Also, a block-
ade was undertaken last autumn, and for-
eign ships were Intercepted by the U.S. Navy.
In recent weeks Soviet-built Mig's, flying
from Cuba, have attacked unarmed American
ships.
In the last several months, moreover, a
hostile military operation, involving the erec-
tion of bases equipped with missiles as well
as bomber planes, had been carried on inside
the territory of Cuba. This was aimed at
the United States. One wonders what more
proof the Government here needs that any
steps taken by this country to protect Itself
are,proper under International law and that
so-called neutrality laws do not apply in
the present circumstances to Cuba.
Actually, the constant use of air surveil-
lance by the United States over Cuba terri-
tory is not really to line with the customary
Interpretation of the concept of neutrality.
The continuous presuro by the Government
here -upon other governments to boycott all
trade with Cuba is also hardly neutral.
Secretary Rusk, in his March 12 speech,
said:
"Now, we are discovering with regard to
Cuba that, having failed to take the steps
that might have prevented in years past the
establishment of a Marxist-Leninist regime
In Cuba, that the problem of finding a cure
is more difficult."
The foregoing might well be paraphrased
and applied today as the administration, in-
stead of finding a cure, permits the Soviets
to strengthen their hold Inside Cuba. It has
even enlisted the help of Great Britain's
Navy to keep Cuban patriots from attempt-
ing to regain their homeland.
Mr. Rusk also said In his speech that "the
presence of Soviet forces in this hemisphere
cannot be accepted as a part of the normal
situation In this hemisphere."
But the Soviets not only have been inil.l-
trating Guatemala and Brazil, but they are
still maintaining a military force in Cuba,
less than a hundred miles away from the
coast of this country.
Senator STENNis, Democrat, of Mississippi,
chairman of the Senate Subcommitee on
Military Affairs, said in a speech the other
day that, "without positive action on our
part, our neighbors to the south may fall
one by one until the entire hemisphere is
lost to us." Ile added that he was convinced
that "the Cuban situation is the most im-
mediate. pressing, and Important problem
facing our Nation today."
Yet the administration is using its influ-
ence to discourage a counterrevolutionary
movement against the Castro regime, which
deliberately inyited the Soviet government
to send troops and build missile bases in
Cuba. How can the United States justify a
p6llcy of inaction against the Havana regime
are influential but do not necessarily mean "We are waiting to see whether more will
concurrence by the executive branch of the be withdrawn, as we would hope they would
Government. But it is significant that Mem- be. The month of March is not finished yet,
bers of Congress are setting forth explicity and we should have a clearer idea as to
what they think should be done in Latin what the total numbers should be in the
America. They have, in fact, stated in much coming days."
more vigorous terms what American policy The month of March has passed, but the
should be than has either the White House "clearer idea" has still not materialized.
or the State Department. The only action that has been taken by the
The report shows a sympathetic attitude administration is a sharp warning-not di-
by the committee's members toward eco- rected to the Russian Government-but to
nomic aid for Latin America, but it Is clear the poor Cubans who have bravely attempted
they feel that this will not solve the prob- to raid ports and start guerrilla action such
lems of the hemisphere unless stern meas- as Fidel Castro himself employed when he
ures are taken to eliminate the threat of fought his way Into power.
Cuban-based subversive aggression. It seems to be regarded as legitimate for
There are indications that the Latin- the United States to encourage and assist
American governments themselves are under in guerrilla-type warfare in South Vietnam
heavy internal pressure from radical groups, against Communists there, but somehow the
some of which are not unsympathetic to the effort by the Cuban patriots to rescue their
Communists, and that this is complicating own country by similar tactics is frowned
the whole problem of collective action in the upon officially in formal announcements
hemisphere. The Soviets have spent hun- from the Department of State and the De-
dreds of millions of dollars not only to sup- partment of Justice. Neutrality laws are
ply funds, guidance, and technical assistance cited as standing in the way. It is an-
Approved For Release 2004/06/23 : CIA-RDP65B00383R000200250005-0
to train guerrillas and terrorists brought
into Cuba from throughout Latin America,
but to infiltrate organizations in various
countries. They are leaving no stone un-
turned to gain a political following Inside
the countries of the hemisphere. Many or-
ganizations are Infiltrated by Communists,
and the majority of the members are not
aware of this underground activity.
The whole Latin-American problem is
becoming more and more complicated, largely
because the United States has not acted
decisively and forcefully in dealing with the
Communist base established under the
Castro regime in Cuba.
(Mr. STIN&ilS--a'sked and was given
permission to extend his remarks at
this point in the RECORD and to include
extraneous matter.)
Mr. STINSON. Mr. Speaker, I am
pleased, indeed, to note that one of
America's most respected journalists,
Mr. David Lawrence, has come to the
defense of the Cuban exiles, who are at-
tempting to regain their homeland and
rid that island, just 90 miles from our
shores, of the Communist menace. As
you all know, these efforts are now being
thwarted by the latest action of the ad-
ministration and Great Britain by the
enforcement of a blockade around that
Communist-infested island, and, which
for all practical purposes, would seem to
be a protective measure for the welfare
of Castro.
I want all of my colleagues to have the
benefit of Mr. Lawrence's sound Judg-
ment in this matter, and for this reason,
I am inserting into. the CONGRESSIONAL
RECORD his article entitled "Policy of In-
action Against Cuba," which appeared in
the April 2 edition of the Evening Star:
[From the Washington (D.C.) Evening Star,
Apr. 2,19631
POLICY OF INACTION AGAINST CUBA-U.S. EF-
FORTS AOAIN8T ANTI-CASTRO ATTACKS Dz-
SCRIBFD As RestLT OF CONFUSION
(By David Lawrence)
Confusion, If not frustration, today char-
acterizes the policy of the administration to-
ward Cuba.
Nearly 2 weeks have passed since Presi-
dent Kennedy told a news conference that
the Soviet Government had withdrawn only
3,000 troops out of the 17.000 stationed on
 Approved For Release 2004/06/23 : CIA-RDP65B00383R000200250005-0
United States
of America
Vol. 109
Record
PROCEEDINGS .AND DEBATES OF THE 88th CONGRESS, FIRST' SESSION
WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, -1963, No. 49
House of Representatives
The House met at 12- o'clock noon.
The Chaplain, Rev. Bernard Braskamp,
D.D., offered the following prayer:
Romans 14: 19: Let us therefore fol-
low after the things which make for
peace.
Almighty God, as we - daily pray and
labor for world peace, may we be eager
to extend the overtures of friendship and
good will to all freedom-loving nations
who are now being drawn together by a
common peril and common ideals.
Grant that we may see clearly that
our thinking and acting in terms of all
humanity and right relations between
the members of the human family are
matters of life and death for our world
of today.
May we understand that the democ-
racy which we are seeking to. - establish,
and its freedom which we believe is in-
evitable for all mankind, is one that must
be coordinated with - discipline - and a
sense of interdependence, but above all
one that has spiritual significance and is
ruled by love for God and man. - --
Hear us in the' name of the Prince of
Peace. Amen.
THE JOURNAL
The Journal of the proceedings of yes-
terday was read and approved.
MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE
A message. from the Senate, by Mr.
McGown, one of its clerks, announced
that the Senate had passed a concurrent
resolution, as follows:
S. Con. Res. 36. Concurrent resolution to
make correction In the enrollment of S. 1035.
THE CONFUSING WORLDWIDE
. FOREIGN AID PROGRAM
(Mr. PASSMAN asked and was given
permission to address the House for 1
minute, to revise and extend his remarks,
and to include extraneous matter.)
Mr. PASSMAN. Mr. Speaker, I know
of no program that is any more complex
and confusing than the worldwide for-
eign aid program. -
It is estimated that on June 30 there
will be on hand, unexpended, but obli-
gated, far in excess of $7 billion. This is
sufficient to meet every legal obligation
that we have outstanding to other na-
tions with respect to foreign aid.
If. the Congress, in its wisdom, refused
to -appropriate another dollar for the
foreign aid program, remember, every
purely legal obligation we have made
will have been met, unless it is assumed
that the Executive can obligate money
without the prior approval of the
Congress.
Mr. Speaker, the Gallup poll shows
that 58 percent of the people- approve
foreign aid. The Passman poll shows
that 98 percent of the people oppose for-
eign aid. What a contrast. Evidently
Mr. Gallup had a carefully worded ques-
tion that did not deal with the program
as it really is.
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES,
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
Washington, D.C., April 1, 1963.
My DEAR COLLEAGUE: This is the ninth
year it has been my privilege to provide you
with a recapitulation of foreign aid funds
available to the mutual security .program.
This report covers funds available for fiscal
1963 and covers only the amount of the aid
program handled by the Foreign Operations
Subcommittee on Appropriations. Other
types of foreign assistance are available
under eight other statutes.
The amounts listed on the attached sheet
have been .verified. These funds are available
for obligation and expenditure in the pres-
ent fiscal year. Fundsnot disbursed during:
fiscal 1963 will remain available in either an
obligated or reserved -status, or as we often
say, in the pipeline.
Is it really the desire of Congress to per-
mit AID to continue pyramiding funds and.
fund programs years in advance of the actual
expenditure? This practice accounts for
the annual increase in unexpended funds,
The certified information presented below
indicates there is something wrong with
the present system of pyramiding aid funds.
Certainly the actual annual expenditures do
not justify this practice.
The three brackets of figures cover (a)
funds available covering 4 fiscal years-
observe the annual increase, (b) actual ex-
penditures for 3 years-fiscal 1963 not yet
available, and (c) unexpended funds on
hand at the end of the last 3 fiscal years-
1963 not yet available:
(A) Total available for expenditure:
1. Fiscal year 1960------ $8,111,521,750
2. Fiscal year 1961 ------ 8,551,215,000
3. Fiscal year 1962 ------ 10,078,319,114
4. Fiscal year 1963 ------ 11,141,987,000
(B) Actual expenditures:
1. Fiscal year 1960------ 3, 265, 400, 000
2. Fiscal year 1961 ------ 3,276,600,000
3. Fiscal year 1962 ------ 3, 198, 100, 000
(C) Unexpended funds:
1. Unexpended funds
June 30, 1960_-------- 4, 830, 549, 000
2. Unexpended funds -
June 30,1961 ---------- $5,975,397,000
3. Unexpended funds - -
June 30, 1962 --------- 6, 889, 186, 000
I hope the information contained in this
letter and the attached sheet will be of some
service to you. It is a pleasure to furnish
you the information developed by the. sub-
committee of which I have the privilege to be
chairman. - Personally, I am concerned
about the ever-increasing cost of this pro-
gram.
Sincerely yours, - .
OTTO E. - PASSMAN,
Chairman, Foreign Operations Subcom-
mittee on Appropriations.
(Enclosure.)
FOREIGN OPERATIONS SURCOMMITTE9 ON
APPROPRIATIONS
OTTO E. PASSMAN, chairman
Foreign aid funds by program and amount
(available for expenditure in fiscal 1963)
1. Military assistance
Unexpended June 30, 1962 ------- $2,784,637,000
New funds, {fiscal 1963 ------------ 1, 325, 000, 000
New funds, other________________ 39, 985, 000
2. Development loans:
Unexpended June 30 1962 ___ 2,127,005,000
New funds, local 1969__ 975, 000, 000
New funds, other ---------------- - -920, 000
Subtotal ------ ------ ---- 3,102,925,000
3. Development grants:
Unexpended June 30, 1062_______ 430, 252, 000
New funds, iiiscal 1963 ------------ 225, 000, 000
Subtotal_______________________ 655,252,000
4. Development grants, special- pro-
grams: New funds, fiscal 1963______ 2,800,000
5. Surveys of investment opportunities:
Unexpended, June 30, 1962 ------- 1,500,000
6. Investment guarantees:
Unexpended, June 30, 1062 ------- 235, 659, 000
New funds, fiscal 1063 ------------ 30, 000, 000
Subtotal_______________________ 265,659,000
7. International organization and pro-
grams:
Unexpended June 30,1962-______ 79,009,000
Now funds, {fiscal 106i ------------ . 148, 900, 000
8. Supporting assistance:
Unexpended, June 30, 1962 ------- 452, 374, 000
New funds, fiscal 1963------------- - 395,000, 000
Subtotal----------------------- 847,374,000
9. Contingency fund:
Unexpended June 30, 1062 ------- 223, 438, 000
Now funds, fiscal 1083--------- .__ 250, 000, 000
Subtotal----------------------- 473,438,000
5233
Approved For Release 2004/06/23 : CIA-RDP65B00383R000200250005-0
 5234
Approved For Release 2004/06/23 : CIA-RDP65B00383R000200250005-0
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE d,~ `April 3
Foreign aid funds by program and amount
(available for expenditure In fiscal 1963)-
Continued
10. Alliance for Progress:
Unexpended, June 30, 1902_______ $519,445,000
New funds, fiscal 1903 ------------ 625, 000, 000
Subtotal_______________________ 1,044,445,000
11. Administrative expenses AID--:
Unexpended, June 3d, 1962_______
New funds, fiscal 1963____________
New funds, other----------------
12. Administrative expenses, State:
Unexpended June 30 1962_______
New funds, uscat 196S__.________-
11.233.000
49, 500.000
383,000
U.S. balance of payments position;
1960 not deficit --------------------- -51,912,000,000
1951 net def cit____________________ -578,000,000
1962 net deficit_____________________ -1. 100,000,000
1963 net deficit -------------------- -2,100.000,000
1954 not deficit--------------------- -1,500,000,000
195:, net deficit--------------------- -1.100,000,000
1U56 net deficit_____________________ -1,000,000,000
,957 (only credit in 13 years)------- +500,000,000
1t15R net deficit--------------------- -3,400.000, 000
1959 net deficit_____________________ -3,700, 000.000
Milk net deficit_____________________ -3,800,000,000
1901 net deficit_____________________ -2,400,000.000
1902 net defcit__------------------- -2.200.000, 000
ALLIANCE FOR VIOLENCE
(Mr. SELDEN asked and was given
permission to extend his remarks at this
point in the RECORD and to include ex-
traneous matter.)
Mr. SELDEN. Mr. Speaker, recently
the House Subcommittee on Inter-
American Affairs, of which I am chair-
man, issued a report on "Castro Com-
munist Subversion in the Western Hemi-
sphere."
In the March 30 1963 edition of the
80,000 Gross public debts: Washington Evenin Star there ap-
2,700,000 t.4. pubile dcht on Dec. 31, 19(12__ 303,470,080,{gg g
Subtotal_____________________2,787.000
13. Other. Unexpended, June 30, 1962_ 5,500.000
Subtotal, funds available for ex-
pendlture for foreign assist-
once program ----------------- 10,848, 327, 000
14. Peace Corp,
Unexpended, June 30, 1062 ------- 10.815.000
New funds, fiscal 1063____________ 59.000.000
Subtotal----------------------- 69.815,000
15. Ryukyu Lslands:
Unexpended, June 30, 19G2_ ---- 3, 011, 000
New funds, fiscal 1963------------ 8, 900, 000
Oiler fnrv world countries patest, peared the following editorial on the sub-
available figures)________________ 20!,500,000,006 committee's hearings and report:
U.S. debt exceeds all other'
eauntrles of world by -------- 24,000,500,000
The above Indicates clearly what the for-
eign aid program is doing to our gold re-
serves and our balance of payments position
(trade).
Sincerely yours,
Orro E. PASSMAN,
Chairman, Foreign Operations Sub-
committee on Appropriations.
16. Cuban refugee program:
Unexpended, June 30, 1962 ------- 2,687,000
New funds, fiscal 1963------_----- 70.110.060 CORRECTION OF THE RECORD
Subtotal_______________________ 72.797,000 Mr. BOLAND. Mr. Speaker, on page
17. Migrants and refugees: 5179 of the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD Of
unexpended, June 30, 1962_______ 2.501.000 April 2, 1963, in the fourth paragraph,
New funds, fiscal 1063 ------------ 14.817?000 second sentence, the reporter cited the
18. Inter-.1merlcan Development Bank:
Unexpended, June 30, 1962 ------- (1)
Now funds, fiscal 1963 ------------ 000, 000
Subtotal---_-_-_..-------_--_-- 60. 0Uq 000
19. International Development Associa-
tion:
Unexpendedt June 30, 19G2 ------- (1)
New funds, Ilscal 1663------------- 61, W. 000
Subtotal_______________________ 61. ON, 000
Subtotal, funds available for
other foreign assistance-----__ 293,600.000
Grand total, funds available for
expenditure in fiscal year
19113__________________________ If. 141,987.000
RECAPITULATION
1. Unexpended folds (from lulnr fiscal
years, June 30, 1962___________ $6,859,186,000
2. New funds (appropriated), fiscal 10?7 4,203, 513, 000
3. New funds (reimbursements, sales re-
ceipts etc.) fiscal 1963_______________ 49,284,000
should have read 228,000. In the third
sentence of the fourth paragraph, the re-
porter cited the figure as 78,000. It
should have read 173,000.
I ask unanimous consent that the REC-
ORD be corrected, as follows:
The high in employment in the Veterans'
Administration occurred In 1943 when the
Veterans' Administration reported 223,003
employees. This year. that figure has been
reduced substantially, The Veterans' Ad-
ministration in 1963 reported total employ-
ment of 173,000.
The SPEAKER. Is there objection to
the request of the gentleman from Mas-
sachusetts? -
There was no objection.
Total funds available for expend- SUNDAY TELEPHONE RATES
iture-------------------------- 11,141,987,000 SHOULD BE EXTENDED TO SAT-
s $513,500,000 unexpended hods for ID B apd IDA not URDAYS AS WELL
included In above totals.
(Mr. HECHLER asked and was given
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, permission to address the House for 1
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, minute and to revise and extend his
Washington, D.C., April 5, 1963. remarks.)
To Whom It May Concern: Mr. HECIILER. Mr. Speaker, at mid-
(laid holdings (free world countries): night tonight anyone will be able to place
U.S. gold holdings on lhc. 31, 1952_ $23,252,000, 000
U.S. gold outflow to foreign cores- a telephone call to any part of the coun-
tries, 1952 through 1(62__________ -7,195,000,000 try, station to station, for the sum Of $1
V.S. gold holdings on Dec. 31,
1962, reduced to------------- Ill, 057,ODD, ODD
Gold holdings, other countries,'
lice, 31,1952 -------------------- 13,028,000,0(10
(fold holdings, increase, other
countries, 1952 through 1962_-_-_ +II,630,000,000
Gold holdings, other countries,
Dec. 31, 1962, increased to 24, 658, 000, 000
U.S. dollars owned by foreign coun-
tries (free world):
Foreign dollar holdings on Dec. 31,
1952_____________________________ 10, 546, 100, ODD
Inereare In foreign dollar holding!.
1952 through 1962________________ +14,437, 900, 000
Foreign dollar holdings on
Dec. 31, 1962. increased to___ 24,984,000,000
for the first 3 minutes. This is a very
fine move. I would, however, suggest an
additional step which should be taken.
Now would be a good time to extend the
evening and Sunday rates on telephone
calls to Saturdays as well as Sundays.
A great many businesses are closed on
Saturdays and millions of people all over
the country would benefit by this reduc-
tion of rates and the extension of the
Sunday and evening rates to Saturdays.
Mr. Speaker, it is my hope that I may
be able to generate some sentiment on
Capitol Hill and throughout the country
for this move.
In Its excellent report on Fidel Castro's
captive Cuba, the House Subcommitee on
Inter-American Affairs has made a number
of somber points about how Moscow and
Havana are organizing an alliance for vio-
lence against the free Americas. One of the
most significant of the report's observations
is the following:
"Communist Cuba's dependence on the
Soviet Union is complete. The Castro Com-
munist movement, although claiming to
represent indigenous Latin American inter-
ests and aspirations, is in fact controlled and
operated by trained professional agents from
the Soviet bloc. The Soviet Union must be
held accountable for * * * subversive ag-
gression in the Americas. * * *
"Castro communism is the instrument of
Soviet aspirations for the Americas. Thus
subversive aggression emanating from Cuba
is Soviet directed and represents (in the
words of CIA Director McCone) a 'far more
sophisticated, more covert, and more deadly'
effort than the hastily organized and 1I1-con-
ceived raids conducted by the Caatroites
during the early months of the regime.
International Soviet agents, experts In the
field of revolutionary propaganda, terrorist
tactics, and guerrilla warfare, are operating
schools for violence in Cuba, training and
indoctrinating Latin American subversives.
The Soviet Union as well as its Cuban puppet
regime must bear the responsibility and
consequences for subversive attacks on na-
tions of the Western Hemisphere.
This is but one of the many sobering
findings of the House subcommittee. The
report of the group-a unanimous one,
which is relatively rare--is greatly over-
simplified in these paragraphs. The full text
well deserves the attention and study not
only of the Kremlin but of every American,
Including the President, interested in hemi-
spheric security and the alliance for violence
against it.
Mr. Speaker, Mr. David Lawrence, in
his syndicated column of March 19, 1963,
also commented on the subcommittee's
report.
Mr. Lawrence's column follows:
[From the Washington, (D.C.) Evening Star,
Mar. 19, 1963]
CONGRESSIONAL PLAN To STALL REDS-REAL-
ISTIC VrEW OF HEMISPHERIC THREAT SEEN IN
HOUSE GROUP'S ACTION PROPOSAL
(By David Lawrence)
Members of Congress of both parties have
for months expressed serious concern over
the possibility of open military aggression by
Communist forces against the nations of this
hemisphere. A realistic appraisal of the
present situation and a recommendation as
to what should be done have just come
In a unanimous report from the Committee
on Foreign Affairs of the House of Repre-
sentatives. All nine members of the Sub-
committee on Inter-American Affairs-both
Republicans and Democrats-signed the re-
port.
Approved For Release 2004/06/23 : CIA-RDP65B00383R000200250005-0