WHO AUTHORIZED THE WAR IN VIETNAM?

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• Publication Date: May 20, 1964
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1964 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -HOUSE 11075
dustry where freight rates are from $4 to Mr. ALGER. Mr. Speaker, next week by the Congress when asked by the Pres-
$1 a ton higher than on other points on the committee on Ways and Means will ident. Not to be forgotten, as time
the eastern, seaboard and in the South begin hearings for an increase in the debt passes there is more reason to believe
ast, . e the that this war was fought in vain. Are
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Last man New'1; winten land leaders modest re- prove upping the debt ceiling to $325 by we going repeat our on-again policy throu gh the eff orts of administration is going to ask us to a
y g ~ bil- The off-again, on-again policy of the
ductions of grain freight rates were an- lion. The President is also going to op- Democrat leadership which sends Amer-
nounced. Xgnoring. the economic ur- pose any reduction or elimination of icans to fight Communists in some areas
gency of freight rate relief,_ he General Korean wartime excise taxes, yet used the while we play footsie with the top Reds
Freight Traffic Committee, Eastern Rail- tax cut bill to show his interest in cut- in the Kremlin is making an utter sham-
roads, later rescinded even this modest ting taxes. bles of any real effort to save the world
reduction. 'Harsh, mileage rates have At the same time the American people from Communist aggression.
been retained instead of across-the- are being bombarded with presidential Fighting a halfhearted war with worn-
board rates originally used. statements and through the newspapers, out equipment is not a policy de-
To illustrate the plight of poultry rais- television and radio daily that Federal signed to win victory over the Com-
ers in my State of New Hampshire and spending is being cut. Yet here is the munists. When the American people are
other areas of New '7ngland, I include demand for a new debt increase. I won- convinced that the President supports a
here in .the RECORD a letter I received der how long it will be before the people policy of strength and determination
from Wentworth Hubbard, president of will admit they are being kidded? against communism, he can come before
the New Hampshire Poultry Growers' Oh, the President may have turned off Congress in the proper way and ask for
Association: a few lights in the White House, but there -a declaration of war when it is necessary
HxrasARn F!,iiinzs, has been no real cut in spending. Our to take such action against Red imperial-
Walpole, .H', May 12, 1964. cash budget this year may run as high ism. Until he abides by the Constitu-
Hon. JAMES C."CLEVELAND, as $340 billion. The money sought for tion the President has no right to ask
The House of Representatives, the poverty campaign alone will run into for money and the Congress has no au-
Washington, D.C. billions and this merely as a vote getting thority to appropriate money for an un-
DEAR CoNCRESSMAlS CLEVELAND: Thank you gimmick in an election year. Only yes- declared war.
for forwarding the clipping concerning the terday the President asked for an addi- The extent of the confusion of our
RECORD, of f y your ur testimony the In ref of errrenncece t to to the the tional $125 million for carrying on his policy in Asia is related in the following
freight rate reduction dilemma we are faced war in Vietnam with the promise that column written by David Lawrence and
with. Actually, the issue of survival of the much more will be needed. The admin- published in the Washington Evening
New England poultry industry has reached istration is demanding Federal pay in- Star of May 1.9, 1964.
such critical proportions that the attitude of creases across the board, especially for UNITED STATES AND THE HOT WAR: SOUTH-
the railroads beema incgnceivalble in light of the top bracket political appointees. EAST ASIAN TINDERBOX SIZZLES WHILE AD-
the tonnage they will lose by pursuing this While much is made of the number of MINISTRATION HOLDS FIRE
policy. Federal employees cut off the payroll, No doubt you are well aware of the fact (By David Lawrence)
that other points on the eastern seaboard nothing is said about how many have Members of Congress are rubbing their
and in the Southeast are receiving shipments been hired so that. Federal employment eyes as they awaken to the fact that the
of corn at rates which are ~4 to '7 pertan _ levels are not being reduced. United States is engaged in a hot war in
below the cost? charged to this area. Given No, Mr. Speaker, the President is not southeast Asia. Yet not a single resolution
this advatnta a in shi 'Ppfn rate differentials cutting Federal spending or law has been passed authorizing the use
g g . There let o of America's Armed Forces in the conflict
the poulry industry In the Middle Atlantic balanced budget in the making. So leus
7,000 and the Southeast is in a most favor- be honest with those we represent by ,000 miles away from our shores.
able position to compete for our own local The Constitution of the United States pro-
markets with their products. either forcing the administration to live vides that only Congress can declare war.
I know that you have been most receptive -within its income by refusing to increase The Executive has occasionally used military
to our concern over, this, problem and I hope the debt ceiling or by taking it off al- forces to safeguard American lives and prop-
and trust that you may be able to continue together and do away with the subter- erty in foreign lands. But usually when such
to use your good office to aid us in the fuge that we are attempting to hold down an affair takes on large proportions, the
struggle for relief from the discriminatory spending. Furthermore, throwing more Chief Executive asks Congress for specific
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rate structure that now_exis'- `Survival of money at the problems does not, solve. Today authority.
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WENTWORTH IlUBBARD, WHO AUTHORIZED THE AR IN nam,
fight a war.
Pressflent, New Hampshire Poultry Grow- VIETNAM? Perhaps even more striking is the lack of
ers' Association.
(Mr., ALGER (at the request of Mr. explanation from the administration as to
The author of this letter, Mr. Went- HARVEY of Michigan) was given per- why 0z American American lives have been lost theoree
worth Hubbard, and the Hubbard family, mission to extend his remarks at this, _ The Secretary of Defense and the chief of the
are well known to me personally, and in- point in the RECORD and to include ex- U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff periodically visit
deed they are outstanding New England traneous matter,) the South Vietnam battle zones, but still
citizens. The Hubbard Farms, at. Wal- , Mr. ALGER. Mr. Speaker, the Con- there is a hesitancy not only to declare a
pole, N.H., have established any, world stitution plainly states that only Con- state of war officially but also to tell the
records In producing fast-growing chick- gress can declare war. Yet, American American people just who is doing the fight-
ens, theymost recent record having just men are dying in a war in South Viet- ing against the United States. The assump-
been announced, Mr. Hubbard is not tion is that it is a "local war." But cer-
nam to which they were committed by tainly the arms and ammunition and super-
the type of person to become unduly the President without congressional ap- visory military officers for the North Viet-
alarmed and for this reason when he proval. We are now being asked to okay namese are being provided from outside Viet-
states that survival of the New Hamp- an additional $125 million to continue nam.
shire and l`Tew England poultry and live- the conduct of that war in spite of the On top of the Vietnam situation, now
stock Industries is at stake, the situation fact that no action has ever been taken comes an attack upon the Government of
is Indeed grave. Laos by the Communist forces. In fact, the
by Congress to authorize the war. whole of southeast Asia appears to be crum-
In addition, , the Secretary Of coon t_,a cling under the pressure of the Commu-
TION'S SPENDING ets. One American mllltarfyman says that
THE ADMINISTRA pr
Laos to save a country which was sold originally the Russians were supplying most
CUTS ARE PHONY. out when a Democrat administration of the military and financial aid to south-
(Mr, ALGER (at the request of Mr, forced a coalition government on teat east Asia, but that later on they turned the
HARVEY ofri~ichigan)was given permis- country assuring an eventuafCommunist.. task over to the Red Chinese. If the
*lA Peiping Government is responsible for the
sion to extend his. remarks at this point takeover. Even the Korean war, al- war, surely the American people ought to be
in the RECORD and to include extraneous though initiated by the U.N.?and.'Pres- told. There are, moreover, areas in which
matter,) ident Truman, was immediately approved the Red Chinese interests could be made the
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target for some kind of counteroffensive
which would assist the cause of South Viet-
nam. There is, for example, an army of
Nationalist Chinese on Formosa, many of
whom would gladly enter the war in south-
east Asia if the United States furnished arms
and supplies.
Certainly the United States is not using
ail its facilities-including a trade embargo
by Western Powers-in the battle against the
Red Chinese in Vietnam and Laos.
The United States faces a serious situation
also in Thailand, which is supposed to be
protected against Communist invasion as a
consequence of the 14-nation agreement
reached in 1962 in Geneva.
One wonders what the United Nations is
doing while all the fighting is going on in
southeast Asia. For a long time the United
Nations has been represented as the instru-
menality which can maintain peace in local
areas. The experiment in the Congo was ac-
claimed in many quarters as an example of
a successful effort with an internationalized
army. The war to repel Communist aggres-
sion in Korea was under the auspices of the
United Nations. But all through that con-
filet, Russia supplied arms and ammunition
to the North Korean forces.
If the United Nations is to be the means
through which international peace is to be
maintained, then southeast Asia would seem
to be a region in which its influence should
be brought to bear. Certainly there should
be an investigation as to who is behind the
military movements in southeast Asia so the
facts can be disclosed at least for discussion
in the General Assembly. Many people in
this country do not feel that American boys
should be sent to southeast Asia. Bpt if
there were an international expedition, the
American Government would unquestionably
play its part and continue to contribute its
share of the cost of the war. '
Oddly enough, the whole subject of south-
east Asia has not been brought formally be-
fore the United. Nations. Possibly this is
due to the feeling that action in the Security
Council would be blocked by the Soviet Gov-
ernment. Even a discussion there, however,
would be constructive. because it could mo-
bilize world opinion and would fix the re-
sponsibility for warmaking clearly on Red
China and the Soviet Government.
Although the war in southeast Asia ap-
pears at the moment to be local, it could
spread. The Charter of the United Nations
declares, in effect, that it is the function of
that organization to intervene in any situa-
tion that might develop into a larger war.
But the problem in southeast Asia has not
been tackled effectively by the United Na-
tions, and hence this country is bearing the
burden of a hot war against Red China.
The hour of decision now is approaching,
and certainly the continued loss of American
lives in a war in which the best equipment
has not been furnished and military support
has not been adequately extended is bound
to be an issue in the coming presidential
campaign.
WASHINGTON POST FIGHTS PEP
CLAUSE IN CONTRACT
(Mr. WAGGONNER (at the request of
Mr. MARSH) was given permission to ex-
tend his remarks at this point in the
RECORD and to include extraneous mat-
ter.)
Mr. WAGGONNER. Mr. Speaker, the
both-sides-of-the-mouth positions of the
Washington Post are well known to those
of us who have no other morning news-
paper to read, but the rest of the Nation
seldom has an opportunity to catch them
at their duplicity.
The latest example to come to my at-
tention Is the fact that they have no
FEP clause in their contract with the
Washingon Newspaper Guild and have
bitterly opposed it when the union has
fought for It. This is the same news-
paper, mind you, which sheds moun-
tainous waves of crocodile tears because
there are others who oppose the FEP
clause in the current oivil rights bill.
The fact that the Post has fought the
union to a standstill on this issue was
reported to me by Mr. Harris Monroe,
administrative officer of Local 35, Amer-
ican Newspaper Guild, Washington, D.C.
Mr. Monroe also informs me that the
equally pious Scripps-Howard paper in
Washington, the News, has also con-
sistently rejected the Guild's demand for
an PEP clause.
There can be little wonder why the
Post is held in such low regard by those
who see examples of this kind of two-
faced philosophy.
Consistency, as Emerson put it, is the
hobgoblin of little minds.
No one will ever be able to accuse the
little minds at the Washington Post of
consistency, of that we can be sure.
PERSONAL EXPLANATION
(Mr. DULSKI (at the request of Mr.
MARSH) was given permission to extend
his remarks at this point In the RECORD
and to include extraneous matter.)
Mr. DULSKI. Mr. Speaker, I was un-
avoidably absent during rollcall No. 121.
If present I would have voted "Yea."
H.R. 11236, THE SOLID WASTE
DISPOSAL ACT OF 1964
(Mr. ROOSEVELT (at the request of
Mr. MARSH) was given permission to ex-
tend his remarks at this point in the
RECORD and to include extraneous
matter.)
Mr. ROOSEVELT. Mr. Speaker, last
week I introduced H.R. 11236, the Solid
Waste Disposal Act of 1964, which will
lead, hopefully, to the solution of a prob-
lem which is rapidly becoming a na-
tional disgrace.
The storage, collection, treatment, and
disposal of solidwastes from our munici-
palities, industries, and agricultural ac-
tivities are posing problems of increasing
complexity and mounting urgency as the
urbanization and industrialization of our
country soars.
The urban sprawl-a postwar phe-
nomenon which has revolutionized our
concepts of urban life-is making the un-
pleasant sights, the noxious smoke, the
insect and rodent infestations, and the
menace to health created by open dumps
less and less tolerable to people liv-
ing in neighborhing residential areas.
Rats flourish on the exposed garbage
and harbor in the trash, rubbish, and
debris. Swarms of flies and other In-
sects from dumps have been known to
deface the walls of nearby homes. Pleas-
ant suburban residential neighborhoods
are often afflicted with the problems as-
sociated with the transportation and dis-
posal of solid wastes from central urban
districts.
Traditionally, solid waste handling
has been regarded as a problem of a
purely local nature, but when densely
populated residential suburbs surround
the central city and- merge with residen-
tial areas of adjacent communities, all
governmental units In the greater metro-
politan complex find that their freedom
to choose methods of waste handling is
severely restricted by the disappearance
of suitable land areas.
The annual financial outlay by our
communities for public collection and
disposal services-over $1.5 billion-is
exceeded only by community expendi-
tures for schools and roads. It has been
estimated that annual expenditures for
private sanitation services are over $1.3
billion. In other words, we, as a nation,
are spending about $3 billion a year-and
some say more-to have the domestic,
industrial, and agricultural residue of
our society picked up, hauled away, and
disposed of either by burning, burying, or
dumping In the open.
It Is evident today that solid waste
management has taken on a community-
wide dimension involving all sectors of
the modern community-urban, subur-
ban, and rural-and that the commu-
nity has generated problems of solid
waste management faster than research
and development have been able to pro-
vide answers. Although expenditures for
solid waste handling are high, the cor-
responding expenditures for research in
this field are pitifully small, constitut-
ing only a fraction of 1 percent. By
comparison, the funds spent annually
for research on liquid wastes are at least
50 times greater. This level of research
has not provided a strong technology on
which to base improved practices.
H.R. 11236 contains provisions for ac-
tion to begin overcoming this disparity.
It is not necessary to look into the fu-
ture to find reasons for worry about solid
waste disposal problems. They are with
us today. Fortunately, we have a test
area-California-particularly along the
Pacific coast where the westward mi-
gration comes to a halt. There each
traveler to the golden West must find
himself a place in the teeming cities or
in what is left of the fast-diminishing
open space.
Each day 1,500 new people are added
to California's population-enough to
occupy a small town; one-half million
people a year, almost enough to occupy
another San Francisco. By 1980, Cali-
fornia's population of 16 million will
have almost doubled-enough to occupy
the 13 major cities of the State, with
enough people left over to create a new
San Francisco bay area-if an unin-
habited area could be found by then.
What does this fulminating, land-con-
suming urbanization mean to farm lands
and other open spaces? With every
daily increase of 1,500 people, 375 acres
of farm land must be changed to sub-
divisions, roads, public and private fa-
cilities, and all the nonagricultural uses
of land which accompany urbanization of
once rural areas.
The result? More sources of solid
wastes and less land on which to dispose
of them.
Ten years ago, it was estimated that
refuse collection in California amounted
to only 2.2 pounds per capita per day.
Today It is about 4 to 41/a pounds per
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