U.N'S SECRET REPORT ON VIETNAM REVEALED

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A334 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - APPENDIX January 28
ever else you have. If it is possible for any- There being no objection, the article abuse of the presumption In favor of reli-
one to be all things to all people, Uncle Sam was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, glous liberty for all non-Russian-dominated
is trying hard to be that man, as follows: states of the United Nations-sufficient to
BRINGS EXPRESSIONS OF HORROR manufacture an international cause celebre
GOLDWATER, for EXPRESSIONS
that he would use WHY WAS THIS SUPPRESSED?-UN. SECRET and undermine a government that had been
.saying REPORT.ON VIETNAM REVEALED the ke to American
our present recognition of Russia as a bit of y policy in southeast
bargaining power with the Reds, has caused (By William T. Buckley, Jr.) Asia.
expressions of horror from the confused per- Its code number is A/5630; it Is dated De- WHAT ONE MONK SAID
sons who want to be for communism and cember 7; it Is over 300 pages long; It Is But what about the gruesome self-immo-
against communism at one and the same titled "The Violation of Human Rights in lations?
time. if Russia conspires with Cuba, as ap- South Vietnam"; it is issued as Report of the Consider , the testimony of witness No. 8,
parently she is doing to subvert Central and United Nations Factfinding Mission to South a 19-year-old monk:
South America, why shouldn't we let it be Vietnam. While at a pagoda In Saigon "I heard
known that we may withdraw recognition of I have no right to a copy of it. about the atrocities perpetrated by the gov-
Russia and stop all the goodies going to the It has never been distributed to the ernment against the Buddhists. I heard
Communists? Even little Panama with no press-because on December 13, 1983, the for example that Buddhist monks and nuns
power behind it had the courage to break off General Assembly told the mission that "in were, beaten, that their hands were broken,
diplomatic relations with the United States the light of recent events that took place (in that they were drowned, that they had their
for what seem to us minor reasons. It is South Vietnam, I.e., the coup d'etat) it stomachs ripped open."
ironical that we fear to do In effect to an- would not be useful to discuss the matter
(whether the Diem SELLING A SUICIDE
other what the Panamanians have done tows. government had been
With pacifists, who fear any war, one might guilty of repressive action against the Bud- In due course this young monk was ap-
be able to go along. But it is pretty hard to dhists) and no further action by the Assem- proached by a member of the "suicide pro-
go along with those who are both pacifis bly was required." motion group" and asked if he would sacri-
}
S A little bit like saying, it seems to me, that flee himself.
and war advocates.
since President Kennedy is dead, there is no "I accepted because I felt so upset about
need to investigate the reasons why lie was the news 'I had heard earlier about the
killed, government's treatment of monks,", he said.
WHAT IT SAID The monk was given, on the day before
U.N.'s Secret Report on Vietnam Revealed I take it there are readers of this news the projected suicide, three letters,
p? The first, addressed to the President of the
per with a keener interest in posthumous Republic, demanded religious freedom, an
EXTENSION OF REMARKS justice and historical integrity than those end to torture, etc., etc.
OF who made the decision of the General As-
sembly to suppress the results of the investi- The second; addressed to a high-ruling
HON. STROM THURMOND gation. Therefore, I am disclosing some of opposition monk, charged a progovernment
the secrets of the hidden report. monk with betraying monks, nuns and
OF SOUTH CAROLINA First of all, although that is what the Buddhists.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES authors themselves called it, it is not exactly The third, addressed to the U.N. mission,
Tuesday, January 28, 1964 a report., What is does contain, however, is gave the reasons why he was committing
the raw material on the basis of which a re- suicide. "These letters had been prepared
Mr. THURMOND. Mr. President, the port would have been written. ahead of time for me and they asked me to
overthrow of the Diem government in And at that, not all the raw material, be- sign them. I did not hesitate."
South Vietnam and the assassination of cause it had been understood that respon- FRIEND'S TIP SAVES
President Diem is a historical fact. sible members of the Diem government Fortunately, a friend of the sacrificial vic-
Nothing that can now be said or done would be given the opportunity to reply to tim tipped off the police, who saved him
can change it. Prior to this event, how- residual allegations against the conduct of from himself in the nick of time; and, hav-
the.regime before the mission drew its con- ing convinced himself of the falsity of the
ever, the Diem government had been elusions.
allegations, he took his story to the U.N.
widely accused of religious persecutions. 7.AAT -- -1- ~.-
s---uuub wnat is involved here is not merely an
that the United Nations sent to south was supposed to present its surrebuttal, the academic piece of historical rectification,
Vietnam a factfinding mission to inves- Government, so to speak, suffered a violent but essential Information we need in order
tigate the charges against the South death. to guard against future such ventures in the
Vietnamese Government, It appears So now as the report stands, it consists of highjacking of world opinion.
that the United Nations has decided that the allegations against the Diem govern-
the CHANCE FOR CONGRESS
ment, procedures followed by the United Na-
report of its factfinding mission will tions mission, preliminary interviews with A congressional committee could look
not be made public on the basis that the government officials, the reports of several into the evidence amassed by the U.N. mis-
Diem government is no longer in exist- dozen witnesses, friendly and unfriendly, sion, and make it available to students of
ence. Nevertheless, it appears a report ONE CONCLUSION that intriguing episode.
of some type was prepared by the fact- If Ie Thant refuses to give Members of
What, on the basis of the raw material Congress a copy of the report, I'd be glad to
finding mission of the United Nations might one conclude? lend them mine.
and has been and is being circulated. Here is what the Costa Rican member of
According to press reports, the report the Committee, who had NO PERSECUTION BY DIEM, 20 TO 5
gone to Vietnam
shows that the factfinding mission found predisposed to accept the guilt of the Diem Following is a verbatim quote from page
that the charges made in the United government, has concluded. 248 of the U.N. li'actfinding Mission Report
Nations against the Diem g"The charges made in the General As-, (document A/5630, Dec. 7, 1963):
were notgainst St i government rn et sembly against the Diem government were "The (U.N.) mission took note of the
not sustained. * * There was no religious names of Buddhist monks, leaders and stu-
vious that the charges of religious per- discrimination or persecution, no encroach- dents who had allegedly been arrested, kid-
secution made against the Diem govern- ment of freedom of religion. * * * There is no naped or killed. Later it (the mission) was
ment were widely accepted both in offi- other way to see It. The clash between a able to interview Thich Tri Tu, Thich Quang
cial and unofficial circles in the United part-not all-of the Buddhist community Lien, Thich Tam Giao, and Thich Tien Minh
States, the release of the United Na- and the Diem regime was on political who, in some communications, were said to
tion's factfinding mission's report Would grounds. * * * I have the feeling that the have been killed."
surely a
be of es, to the missio 's fepo t ou d majority of the mission members (Afghani- The mission also took note (pp. 247, 248)
stan, Brazil, Ceyl!n, Costa Rica, Dahomey, of allegations in communications sent to it
for it would serve as a warning that all Morocco, and Nepal) considered it a politi- concerning alleged Diem government perse-
of the press reports on conditions in for- cal question, not a religious question." cution of Buddhists and reported objectively
eign lands cannot be accepted at face Witnesses were heard representing every on their import. Of a total of 25 communi-
value. It would also be instructive as point of view, and the Diem government, in cations, the U.N. mission says:
to the proficiency of propaganda cam- the expressed opinion of the mission, be- "In au-
haved impeccably, cooperating with the mis- th os five of these communications, (of the dd-
paigns. sion with the kind of zeal that tends to be r allege that such persecutions (udd-
I ask unanimous consent that the copy shown by men confident of vindication. hilts) were the result of a deliberate Bte policy
of an article entitled "U.N.'s Secret Re- of the (Diem). government.
POLITICAL ABUSES "In four communications, the persecu-
port on Vietnam Revealed," which ap- . . The upshot of the witnesses' testimony tions were regarded as being essentially the
peared in the Washingtdn Daily News on suggests, as the Costa Rican member stated: acts of anti-Buddhist elements in the popu-
January 10, 1964, be printed in the Ap- That the root difficulty was political; not lation or of local authorities, and the Cen-
pendix of the RECORD, religious, but that there had been a cynical tral Government is held responsible only for
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be. The tiny shop took on the rosy hue job removed from grease and whir of motors as parents our job is to make our children
of heaven. is his Idea of death by strangulation. We Can as fit as we can-then sit back and let them
From wrinkled Hebe's conversation, I soon do nothing-and he may be right. I an fly as high and as far as they will. Straight
learned that I was not the only appreciative quite sure that he will never starve, for he to the moon if they must,
customer. Every Friday night a Boston car has served as plumber's assistant, as gardner,
stops for coffee, picks up a pie wrapped as well as mechanic and cook.
ready and waiting, and continues on to The last two are daughters, born in New
Vermont for the weekend. Sunday night it Hampshire with a native's self-assurance. Policy Toward Cuba, Indonesia, etc.
is the same routine in reverse. No pie or At 14, still a freshman In high school. Carol
coffee in Boston or Vermont can match what flew Into Ithaca by herself and registered at
is served in this gas station shack. Need- the Hotel Management School at Cornell. EXTENSION OF REMARKS
less to say. I have added the little old lady Cooking has been to Carol what airplanes HON. to my list, along with Susie and Daniel h
the ave been steno tan. At 4 she was basting
sll7lyE. ROSS AUAIR
Maurice.
Over my second cup of coffee the lady for cookbooks as gifts. Instead of dolls. Or INDIANA
switched her conversation from her present My ineptness as a baker apparently In- THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
business to her late husband, and then on spired her. It has been years since I had
to social security. That very morning she to produce a pie or a cake. When and If Tuesday, January 28, 1964
had driven 18 miles to Gardner to see about she Is accepted by Cornell In the fall of 1605, Mr. ADAIR. Mr. Speaker, in these
social security and income tax-it being her it will culminate 10 years of planning. Our
first year without her husband to handle good friends own and operate an inn nearby. days there is a great deal of confusion
such matters. She had been allnerved up The Woodbound Inn has been the object and, I think, lack of understanding as
and afraid that the Government man would of her closest attention. She will be a wait- we try to sort out and place in proper
be impatient and cross. Why, he was noth- ress there this summer, and she has often perspective the facts relative to our
ing of the kind. He explained everything, pinch hit In other capacities. -national policy toward Cuba, Indonesia,
took all the time in the world-didn't laugh Finally, there Is Frances- From the time and other countries currently in the
at my questions. The old lady had decided she was born she was In complete control e illuminating Column upon the
to write to the Government people to thank of any situation- All the rest of us are in- news. point written ti Mc. Clifford
B.
them for hiring such a pleasant, capable dined toward shyness and introspection. this young man. Not Frances. If she is happy, she laughs. Ward recently appeared in the Fort
By this time I was all attention. Prob- If she is sad or disappointed, she howls- Wayne News-Sentinel. I include it
ably no other Government agency is so im- then grits her teeth and gets to work. She herewith:
portant to the individual as that of social is so busy making friends that so far she GOOD EVENING
security. Its redtape, its forms. blanks, flies, has missed the agonies of self-doubt and (By Cl fford B. Ward)
If stacked together might reach from here loneliness that the rest of us have endured. Bobby Kennedy Cl on behalf of the adminis-
to eternity. But mlichines can handle the Inner confidence will steady her all her life. tration has warned Sukarno, of Indonesia,
smother of statistics, leaving trained men These six youngsters are Indeed employ- United States will fight if n moves
the i To fight moves
and women free to answer questions, to re- able and so are many of their friends. It that the has
assure frightened widows, to explain, explain, is astonishing to see how well the young aggressively g nce against s w ll means we will g, to To For
explain. No tape recorder could have re- people are doing. Automation is a fact and this Insta west or go to war, If
assured my restaurant lady. She needed just a challenge, but there are as many ways shgges.~tin, that
rem we fiCastroism from Cuba.
the right human touch. Tact and patience to skin a cat as there are cats. There Is BARRY GOLDWATER and others who share his
and kindness plus training-this was a no one formula to meet automation. advovocates of
formula we could follow in raising our chit- An advanced degree from MIT is one way. viewswhat, has are bpi picctured called as brinksm reckleckless ss ad
dren. Develop these traits and find their George Gordon has another. With Gordon States is selling wheat to Rus-
Rus-
individual bent and we could laugh at auto- Services, Inc., he is doing any odd job for The d Stas Is our Government,
ky but England credit guaranteed by
mation. anybody in the area-from fixing a lea sla on e U
rebuked for selling second-
analyzing home to Jaffrey I was too busy roof to landscaping a garden. At 24 he has b hand to to r raes. Spain It being re con
analyzing job qualifications to worry about ale own business, 1s hiring every handyman hut and for considering the sale re ships
unemployment. As my panic about auto- he can muster, and Is making a very com- unofficially
Cuba. If rt any wonder that a London
mation subsided, I did what I should have fortable living and having the time of his to Cuba. Is tean w our dhat a for the
done in the first place. I looked straight at life. English sale of the buses, in the face of our
our six children with the cold eyes of a pros- In "The Republic" Plato envisioned an sale of wheat to Russia, published a head-
pective employer. Ideal society-but It was based on slavery. line reading. "Oh, for the Love of Pete."
Our eldest, age 25, will be a full doctor in The great mass of human beings were And while we are treating the Pana-
June with an internship in surgery lined up doomed to toll endlessly in order that the manians and the Cubans with kid gloves, lest
in St. Louis. As he wrote when he applied elite might flower physically, Intellectually, war break out, we are at the very same time
to prep school, "Shaking out wet hay I used to spiritually. Sheer drudgery, day after day, waging a war in South Vietnam against the
hate-but for the past year I have done it month after month, is not ennobling. Just Communists there. Although that war is not
to earn tuition for Mount Hermon. so it does try it to be sure. costing us thousands of men, it is costing us
not seem so bad anymore." Automation could do in the 20th century men, and who can say that the deaths of only
Our next, a daughter, a B.S. and an RN, what slavery did for the men of Athens. For a few men in a war is of no consequence, but
combined marriage and race pregn betwney with edu- some of the men of Athens. There were that the deaths of many more, is consequen-
Cation. So it was a race between a diploma plenty then, as always, who could turn lib- tial? When did we start a quantitative ap-
and the stork. Although she is not working erty into license, leisure Into laziness, the praisal of either war or death?
professionally, her education is making her cult of beauty Into an erotic orgy. PROVIDE REDS WITH FOOD
home a happy one. If the wolf should howl, Today more of us have a chance than ever
she could always earn her living. y It Is apparent to all who read that Khru-
Our third child, almost 21, might give an before to lead Interesting lives-not easy shchev and Castro are working together not
employer some uneasy moments because she lives. With plenty of Imagination and hard only in Cuba, but in Zanzibar and Panama.
is dreamy and sometimes a crusader. But if work, almost anything is possible, If we close While they work to try burying us, we are
she can survive another 2 years, she will have our minds and hearts to all thin chatter providing the Russians with food, which in
a teaching certificate in French and Russian about social status, lifelong financial se- all likelihood will permit more food supplies
to bolster and steady a very generous, friendly curity. the fastest car, and the softest mink to Cuba. The late President Kennedy was
personalty, coat' murdered by a pro-Castro Communist, and
The fourth, a son, is a law unto himself. If we are parents, the best thing we can British intelligence suspects a. conspiracy, but
He became a mechanic by Instinct and dedi- do for our children is to have confidence our Government agencies, long before they
cation before he was 4. At 6 he was operat- In them and in their future. They need as had a chance to intelligently study the Presi-
ing tractors. At 16 he was flying airplanes much time as we can give them when they dent's assassination rushed into print deny-
and earning the money to fly by being a are very young, and as much cash as we can ing that any Communist conspiracy was in-
short-order cook at an Ice cream stand. scrabble together for their education as they volved. Why the rush?
No matter how loud the hue and cry from grow older. But most of all they need- If any government has shDwn the unique
the crowd, he is calmly deaf to all advice as children have always needed since the ability to ride off in all directions simultane-
about liberal arts education. Luckily, at a days of poor old Adam and Eve worrying ousl.y, our Government has done it. We are
Quaker school he has absorbed much history over Cain and Abel-faith, hope, and love. for war, we are against war, we are for help-
and a lively Interest In the world, plus a Plus all the hard work and all the laughter Ing the Communists, we are for not helping
passion for reading-luckily because this may a family can gather together. The rest is them, we are for a strong military defense,
be the last year of formal education. Out at out of our hands. we are against a strong milI'ary expense, we
Northrup Institute. Los Angeles, he will be Of course there Is danger in automation. are for spending profligately, we are for not
immersed in his beloved jet engines. Aerp- Danger will keep us lean and on our toes. spending profligately. We are for God, Satan,
nautics maintenance Is his obsession. A desk It is simply the survival of the fittest, and salvation, damnation, good, evil, and what
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not paying enough attention to Buddhist
grievances.
"The authors of 12 communications deny
that the Buddhist community was ever the
victim of discrimination and persecution by
the (Diem) government.
"It is stressed in four communications
that, under the Diem government, the
Buddhist community had grown larger and
that numerous pagodas had been built or
repaired with the financial help of the
(Dieml government authorities."
Therefore, out of 25 communications to
the U.N. factfinding mission, the score was
20 to 5 against the allegation of direct Diem
government persecution of Buddhists; con-
cerning Diem government action, - the score
was 16 to 9 In favor of the government, with
4 adverse opinions critical of the Diem -gov-
of the Strategic Air Command's top nuclear
bomb carriers during the 1960's. -
Should either a major or brushfire war
break out before 1970, these military advisers
claim that all the B-47's in the Air Force's
1,200 inventory would be needed. They stress
that the bomber's capabilities for low-level
penetration of Soviet defenses are still un-
surpassed.
On direct orders from Defense Secretary
McNamara, the Joint Chiefs are preparing a
report on the number of other arms that will
become obsolete within the next 5 years.
The President's military advisers plan to
include in their report a warning that any
disarmament agreement providing for large-
scale destruction of conventional arms will
work to the disadvantage of the United States
at this time.
1d ernment.
Burning of Jets Just the Beginning
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. BOB WILSON
OF CALIFORNIA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Tuesday, January 28, 1964
Mr. BOB WILSON. Mr. Speaker, un-
der leave to extend my remarks in the
RECORD, I include the following article
from the San Diego Union of January
17, 1964:
THE ALLEN-SCOTT REPORT: BURNING OF JETS
JUST THE BEGINNING
The Johnson administration's skylighting
proposal to destroy those B-47 jet bombers
is only part of the disarmament package
U.S. officials are preparing to offer the Rus-
sians.
The controversial plan, which is being vig-
orously opposed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
calls for the United States and Russia jointly
to destroy mortars, tanks, and atomic-firing
cannons.
The giant 280-millimeter nuclear field
pieces now used by U.S. forces in West Ger.-
many and Korea, but considered obsolete, are
being added to the disarmament proposal to
give it an atomic Image. -
Still under backstage consideration is
whether the package should Include a State
Department plan providing that the United
States offer to dismantle a small number. of
atomic bombs on a 2-for-1 basis with the
Soviet.
This unpublished proposal and the exact
number of jet bombers and other military
equipment to be destroyed are being hotly
debated by President Johnson's military, in-
telligence, and foreign policy advisers.
Secretary of State Rusk, who hopes to have
the new arms control package ready to offer
the Russians at the East-West talks that open
in Geneva on January 21, favors the big bon-
fire plan.
He is seeking Presidential approval to pro-
pose that a match be put to 20Q medium
range B-47 bombers and a comparable num-
bet of Soviet Badgers-similar to the bomb-
ers Premier Khrushchev secretly shipped into
Cuba in 1962.
If the Russians agree to this, according to
Rusk, the accord will keep these Soviet
bombers out of the hands of African and
Asian nations seeking Russian arms.
The Joint Chiefs, who have. fought the
whole idea, have made a counterproposal that
the number of bombers to be destroyed be
limited to 20 or fewer.
They argue that destruction of more of the
B-47's would not be In the national interest.
Although the bombers are - slowly being
phased out by the Air Force, the Joint Chiefs
point out that they will continue to be one
Criticism of Congress
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. HARRY FLOOD BYRD
OF VIRGINIA
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
Tuesday, January 28, 1964
Mr. BYRD of Virginia. Mr. President,
I ask unanimous consent to have printed
in the Appendix of the RECORD an edi-
torial from the Mobile (Ala.) Register,
entitled, "Do-Nothing Criticism Credit
to Congress."
There being no objection, the editorial
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD,
as follows:
DO-NOTHING CRITICISM CREDIT TO CONGRESS
Everything he can rake and scrape to-
gether is being used by Senator JOSEPH S.
CLARK, of Pennsylvania, to give Congress a
black eye because it has not thrown caution
to the wind and run wild in enacting new
left-wing Federal meddling social legisla-
tion.
For good measure, the rip-roaring sena-
torial liberal contributes a few choice pieces
of fault,iinding of his own: "* * * During
the previous session, Congress was quite in.
capable of attending to the public business.
* * * We are a long way from fulfilling our'
responsibility in Congress."
As seen through the political eyes of Sen-
ator CLARK, its enactment of hodge-podge on
so-called civil rights, medicare, aid to edu-
cation and the like is necessary for Con-
gress to fulfill its responsibility.
One thing he has dredged up to down-
grade the present Congress Is a Louis Harris
poll, of which he says: "This poll makes it
clear that the rating of the 88th Congress
by the people of the United States is very
bad, Indeed."
Another thing over which the Senator en-
thused is a Walter Lippmann article he came
across in the Washington Post.
Mr. Lippmann, who impresses us as sel-
dom underestimating his own wisdom in
national and world affairs, would have Con-
gress dilute its independence as one of the
three constitutional branches of the Federal
Government.
In the article Senator CLARK introduced
in evidence against the existing manner of
its functioning, Walter Lippmann wrote of
Congress: "* * * If the trouble from which
we suffer is that the Legislature [Congress]
paralyzes the Executive [the President], then
the remedy is * * * clear. It Is also simple.
Let each House of the Congress pass a rule
that any measure proposed by the President
and certified as important must be put to a
vote by some specified date or within some
specified time."
That sort of rule might be perfectly
hunky-dory for the promoters of Federal
meddling in whatever way a President de-
clared. important.
But It may be debatable whether Mr. Lipp-
mann has convinced any except himself and
Senator CLARK that such a dilution of con-
gressional independence would be hunky-
dory for the national interest.
In the thoroughness of his search for
faultfinding with Congress, Senator CLARK
no more overlooked the New York Times
than he overlooked the Louis Harris poll and
Walter Lippmann.
In consulting the New York Times, he was
rewarded by the discovery of an editorial
complaining of a "slow-motion record" in
Congress by "nonlegislating legislators."
It would appear that we have arrived at an
unheard-of day in American history when
there is abroad in the land a school of -
thought which holds that Congress does not
qualify for public respect and confidence un-
less it enacts, or at least railroads to a vote,.
every fantastic and forbidding proposal that
can be dreamed up to speed up Federal en-
croachment into the lives and affairs of the
people.
Congress could end the do-nothing criti-
cism heaped on it today In tidal wave vol-
ume.
It would need only surrender lock, stock,
and barrel to the Federal meddling demands
of the faultfinders.
But the price of that surrender would be
prohibitively high for a people "endowed by
their Creator with certain unalienable
rights," among them "life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness."
Nowhere on earth at any time have any
people had much opportunity for liberty and
the pursuit of happiness in a totalitarian
straitjacket.
This should be lesson and warning to the
American people every time another Federal.
meddling bill is Introduced in Congress or
recommended to it.
The kind of do-nothing criticism being
leveled at Congress these days is actually a
credit to it.
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. E. ROSS ADAIR
OF INDIANA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Tuesday, January 28, 1964
Mr. ADAIR. Mr. Speaker, the follow-
ing letter to the editor recently appeared
in -the Washington Post. Many people -
like myself who knew Gene Dawson will
agree with the sentiments expressed
therein and want to pay tribute to his
efforts with respect to the prayer amend-
ment:
GENE DAWSON
The tragic and untimely "death of Gene
Dawson, congressional aid to Representative.
FRANK J. BECKER, of New York, Is a Cause of
great sadness not only to his many friends
in the Capital, but also to many like myself,
who never met him personally, but who
worked closely with him in an effort to re-
store prayer and Bible reading to our public
schools through discharge petition No. 3.
When the history of the struggle for the
prayer amendment is written, no one will
merit greater credit for the enactment of
said amendment than Gene Dawson. His
untiring and selfless dedication to.this cause
will never be forgotten by his many friends
and acquaintances.
ROBERT L. MAURO.
LONG BRANCH, N.J. "
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The Pending Tax Bill
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. JOE SKUBITZ
OF KANSAS
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Tuesday, January 28, 1964
Mr. SKUBITZ. Mr. Speaker, much
has been said and more has been written
on the pending tax bill than I could hope
to remember. Each and every day since
President Kennedy sent his recommen-
dations to the Congress on January 24,
1963, I have received various articles
outlining the pros and cons of this legis-
lation.
Under unanimous consent, Mr. Speak-
er, I wish to have printed in the Appen-
dix of the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD the fol-
lowing editorial written by Mr. Angelo
Scott, editor of the Iola (Kans.) Register.
I feel this is one article that makes good
sense. I hope every Member of this body
will take the time to read Mr. Scott's
erudite views.
CAN'T HAVE BOTH
It's Impossible to keep track of all the
items that go In and out of the big tax re-
duction bill as it continues to Work its way
through the Senate Finance Committee these
days.
Everybody has his own Idea of where and
flow the cuts should be made. Some of them
gain committee approval, others bite the
dust. But what happened yesterday points
up a fact that all of us should keep clearly
in mind as we watch these procedures.
Two measures were proposed. One would
give tax relief on the costs of college educa-
tion, the other on facilities built for the pur-
pose of air and water pollution control.
We Must Not Turn Our Backs on
Guantanamo
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. HENRY C. SCHADEBERG
OF W LscONSIN
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Tuesday, January 28, 1964
Mr. SCHADEBERG. Mr. Speaker, can
there be any doubt that Castro made his
sudden trip to Moscow to get Khru-
shchev's backing for intensifying and
stirring up more Communist-style
trouble In the Carribbean area at a time
when the United States was preoccupied
with an explosive situation in Panama?
Castro did not have to wait to discuss
the matter with Khrushchev before hav-
ing his agents take part in the Panama
riots. And even our own Government
officials have attested to Communist par-
ticipation in those riots.
What then? Richard Frykiund writ-
ing in the January 23 Washington Star
presents a logical answer. Attributing
the answer to "Government analysts"
Mr. Fryklund interprets the analysts'
warning to "watch for trouble in Guan-
tanamo" when Castro returns from his
Kremlin conference.
To add an Important dimension to our
study and deliberations of the Panama
problem I include Mr. Fryklund's report
at this point in the RECORD:
TRIP STIRS GUANTANAMO FEAR
(By Richard Frykiund)
When Fidel Castro returns from Russia,
watch for trouble in Guantanamo.
In Moscow, he Is believed to have asked
Mr. Khrushchev's moral support for a new
anti-Guantanamo campaign. Whether the
permission was given is not known.
There are a number of things Mr. Castro
could do in Guantanamo short of an armed
assault.
He could order sabotage by some of the
3,724 Cuban citizens w:Io work there-or
demonstrations on the base against "gringo
oppressors." He could stop the Cuban
workers from entering the base; cut off the
water supply, which comes from Cuban
reservoirs, ring the base with snipers or
create incidents along the fence.
While stirring up violence, Mr. Castro and
the Communist bloc could propagandize the
world and appeal to the United Nations.
HOPES FOR SYMPATHY
The Castro hope would be that the excit-
ment over Panama could create sympathy for
the Cuban campaign.
If any of these things :are done, the United
States would call on standby plans to re-
store order and hold on to the base.
A roster of substitute civilian workers
has already been drawn up, and enough men
to carry on vital functions could be flown
quickly to Gauntanamo. Water could be
tanked In; the 3,307 American sailors and
marines normally on the base could defend
It against harrassment.
Will any of these things happen? The best
bet now is that Mr. Khrushchev would not
like to risk war in Cuba during his present
peace offensive. Small harrassments would
not significantly change relations betwen the
United States and Russia; large-scale rioting,
carrying with it the threat of war, would.
This is the warning from Government or
analysts who were told to and out why HON. BOB WILSON
Cuba's leader made his sudden, unscheduled
Now everybody is In favor of giving a boost
to higher education and we all recognize the
pressing need for encouragement to pollution
control. Yet both proposals were defeated.
Why? For the simple reason that they
would cost the Treasury so much money that
in order to keep within the $11 billion total
reduction planned. Income tax rate reduc-
tions would have to be cut back. In other
words, we can have rate reductions or more
special exceptions but not both.
We keep forgetting this. And more than
anything else, we keep forgetting that the
purpose of taxation is to raise money-not
subsidize college educations, stimulate poi-
lutlon control, cut down on alcoholism, share
the wealth, or any of the other thousand and
one social and economic ideas that keep
getting mixed up in our tax bills.
It is true that once the tax money is raised.
a thousand and one uses may be found for
It, all of them perfectly legitimate. But the
taxing is one thing and the spending to an-
other. Ideally they should be kept entirely
apart.
We should tax according to ability to pay
a just sharing of the total burden among
all the people. That and no more. We
should spend according to our needs and our
income.
It Is because we have forgotten or ignored
these fundamentals that we have a tax re-
duction bill in Congress today. We have
piled so many of our special exception and
reform ideas into our tax structure that both
CATER who Cnaa-
the rate and the structure have 113-ecome in- ' '
mission of Mr. KhruShchev to start war- Ilean Senator BARRY tolerable. risking harassment. lenges the reliability of American missiles,
But the main thing that is Intolerable Is NO WARNENG GIVEN and Democratic spokesmen who reply that
the rate. And we certainly can't reduce it If
we keep piling more exceptions into the Three days later Mr. Castro left for MOSCOW. tart' of Defense Robeit McNamara, who has Ibe structure. Pr a
That to the whole meaning of the Senate reportedly without any advance warning dents i Kennedy tend Johnsoner both Golde
, Says
Committee votes yesterday. even to the Kremlin.
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Khrushchev can be positive about the reason -- for the trip. But the analysts say it was not Tuesday, Jans art' 28, 1964
only for sledding, drinking, trade agree- Mr. BOB WILSON. Mr. Speaker, un-
ments, and the public'piedges of undying der leave to extend my remarks in the
loyalty.
Rather, it is now believed here, Mr. Castro RECORD, I include the following article
wanted to clear a proposal with Mr. Khru- from the Indianapolis News of January
ahchev to take advantage of the Panama 17, 1964:
riots by creating incidents at Guantanamo, GOLDWATER AND THE ICBM's
the American naval base on the southeast (By Stan Evans)
coast of Cuba.
ESTIMATE or TRIP Current debate on the dependability of
U.S. long-range missiles as a means of na-
Here is the analysts' estimate of the Castro tional defense features a seemingly ironic
trip: reversal of positions.
Reaction to the Panama riots convinced Four years ago at this time, Democratic
Mr. Castro that most of Latin America-and spokesmen were in full cry against the Eisen-
much of the world-was on the side of the hower administration concerning the so-
rioters (egged on by Castro agents) and called missile gap. Among those saying
against the Yankee Imperialists. America was behind the Soviet Union in
He decided to attempt to use this wave of the race for missile defenses were Senator
emotion to gain sympathy for Cuban harass- JOHN F. KENNEDY, the recently deceased
meet of the United States and Guantanamo. President, and Senator Lyndon Johnson, who
Naturally he wanted the backing of his pro- succeeded him in the Nation's highest office.
Lector, Russia. These Senators were joined by numerous
The Guantanamo base is under lease to the others including Senator STUART SYMING-
United States. . America is for all pratical TUN Democratic, of Missouri, and Senator
purposes sovereign on the base, as is the case HENRY JACKSON, Democrat, of Washington,
'
of American de-
in the Panama Canal Zone. in proclaiming the freiities
Mr. Castro has threatened many times to fense. We were, it was suggested, virtually
throw the Yankees out, but he lacks the at the mercy of the vast Soviet arsenal.