GOP STUDY ON CUBA RATES BIGGER NOTICE

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• Publication Date: May 27, 1964
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*ecZnes4a May 27; 1964
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. TribAng of gay 0 1964 has -great aignifl-
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would_ have, Won'. th?r attentIOn had they
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ceent job organizing these stildies, butfththeye
iOe4 the imprimatur , ph._ leaders 9
, 2p Party.
?The 'Ouben study' was important because
ii Offer.C4 a?Spilltion:pr,at:ltaat the shadow
of _ one, and this is extreMery, _rare in the
Cuban debate,:This -;014410.W. Qf A .Soillttoll.
fell MO :two parts: 'organization 'Of e govern-
?meht-.M.-exilc and; hardpreasiire on our ether;
tO lo#aCing with Cuba._
A principle of great sign' cance is involved.
Cuba would
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Vietnam teoe or -other-eferie 'thOre remote
treat ourpritnarY-"area of secu1ty. We would
_.4eA.1An4 MO*, 41..thi8just as we have
4.4400e-0-Ourr.a4itea-1a .ao many areas of the
world, including Berlin for the past' 20
' years.
. however, seems content :to accept the judg-
,ment of ng1and, Frace0-?tileeii'SCtiriadinki.avtialin6
7CilMtriea On the ciOgrie Of P
,We Western Hemisphere's security. Very , little
will get done anywhere in thetvoild,
how-
ever, if the prevailing intellectual corn-
'plaisance is to become
? The RepublicanStndy--:was Osefiil because
It centers attention, orkthe feet:that virtually
no-thing is being done either by the U.S.
_GoVern*ent O.r,th Cnba. A
Organization of Aineri-
co: SiA44-14kH-it ttO problem
;, kind o in paralysis has set n n even discuss-
ing it. The Democrats apparently hope that
Vcitere`wni pot thini lout wien they
g6 to tb.e:p0bribiis
'41e,niefantbne; the C"Oniihnnist Position
Is being strengthened, subversion and pene-
tration in Latin America are increasing, and
the Government in Cuba is stable enough
so that Russian troops can be withdrawn.
Mr. Johnson discusses Cuba with about the
same detachment as he discusses the Baker
case.
Some think that this hides the behind the
scenes activity being organized by Presiden-
tial Adviser Thomas Mann, or that President
Johnson has some carefully drawn plan of
action. There is no evidence of this, except
a little plain talk with the British Prime
Minister, and some grumbling about General
de Gaulle.
Otherwise, the allied trade with Cuba is
increasing and we are still discouraging
refugee raids even when they originate in
Countries other than the United States.
This isnot a vary firm policy, whether meas-
ured by Republican or Democratic stand-
ards.
In actual fact-, there is probably not too
mach in the Republican study that the
White House would disagree with, except
that it is a Republican study.
Some would say that this is a critical time
and the 11?epublicans have no business mak-
ing foreign polloy a political issue. This is
really beside the point.
The point is whether or not the adminis-
tration hi power will devote its full efforts
to a reexamination of the Cuban question
and arrive at a fixed policy with an objective
in sight.
If not, the administration will be fair game
on this issue throughout the preelection pe-
riod, not only from Senator GOLDWATER but
from the moderates in the opposition who
are just looking for issues but want solu-
tions.
? The Question of Morality in Civil Rights
Legislation
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
HON. STROM THURMOND
OF 80IITH CASOLINA
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
Wednesday, May 27., 1964
Mr. THURMOND. Mr. President, I
?have been much impressed with a re-
cently published sermon by Dr. Walter
? Courtenay, minister of the First Presby-
terian Church of Nashville, Tenn.,
entitled "The Problem of Equilibrium.?
The distinguished junior Senator from
Georgia [MT. TALMADGE] recently placed
this outstanding and most timely sermon
In the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, as it VMS
printed in the Nashville Banner of
Nashville, Tenn.
? There has now come to my attention
an e3;cellent editorlig Whicn 1-10s beg'
published in the Greenville News of
Greenville, S.C., on May 24, 1964 dis-
cussing this sermon, the so-called civil
rights legislation, and the false question
of morality which has been raised by
proponents Of this legislation.
I ask unanimous consent IfiaLthe edi-
tivial be printed in the Appendix of the
RECORD,
There being no objection, the editorial
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD,
as follows:
THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILLS AND lylORALlTY,
Many are they who cry shame and worse
upon others who oppose the civil rights bills
and condemn the proposals as immoral, ma-
terialistic, and tyrannical but who, nonethe-
less, work for better race relations in the
right way as they are given vision to see the
right.
For the benefit of both we cite here pas-
sages from a recent sermon by a distin-
guished Nashville, Tenn., minister.
Until the maximum force began to be
applied by paid agitators and well meaning
people who support them, Nashville was
making progress in stable race relations, mov-
ing toward equality without embracing inte-
gration as a false panacea. Since then,
Nashville has been troubled and wracked
by strife and bitterness.
It was this which prompted Dr. Walter
Courtenay, minister of the First Presbyterian
Church of Nashville, to speak out against
forced integration under the topic of "The
Problem of Equilibrium."
He condemned demonstrations and called
for a moratorium on the efforts of integre-
tionists and certain Members of Congress to
force a majority of the citizens of the United
States into a police state for the dubious
benefit of a minority.
Dr. Courtenay has won two Freedom Foun-
dation Awards. The second was for a ser-
mon delivered this year and entitled "The
Problems of Equality." His latest sermon
was printed in the Nashville Banner of May
18.
"So unbalanced are the times in which we
live, Dr. Courtenay said, and so fuzzy our
thinking, that church leaders now say that
anyone who does not wholeheartedly sup-
port the total integration of the races is un-
American and pagan * ? * They would corn-
press all Christians into their mold or destroy
them."
Of the demonstrations, he said:
"Again I stand to decry sit-ins, lie-downs,
kneel-downs, and the demonstrations that
create fear, block traffic, rob merchants of es-
sential business, and make a mockery of law
and order. I decry those who incite such
actions, even as I decry their opposites who
meet unreasonableness with unreasonable-
ness.
"I decry so-called nonviolent marches that
create feelings of violence in others and fuse
every day with danger.
"I find little of the spirit of Jesus in most
of what has been said and done to date, and
-with all too little justification.
"The methods used are hate and fear
builders, and are in fact a shotgun held at
a community's or businessman's stomach and
such actions are as reprehensible as the ac-
tions of a gun-wielding robber."
Of the effect of the civil rights bills, he
said:
"One can only conclude that many people
are living in a tailspin of confusion. If all
the integrationist schemes now extant were
enacted into law we would create a Federal
power free men could not long endure.
"We would turn this land into a police
state for the benefit of a minority of favored
citizens. Men and women, who, by hard
work and frugality, have built profitable
businesses would lose all privileges if they
- declined to meet the social conditions passed
, for the benefit of this group.
? "We would create chaos in our streets, fear
in our hearts, and alter irretrievably every-
thing that has been American in the past."
There is, as every sincere citizen must agree,
a need for justice in the justifiable griev-
ances of Negroes who have been denied op-
portunity even though they were qualified
to assume the responsibilities that go along
with them. Dr. Courtenay put it this way:
"Let no one doubt that our colored friends
and fellow citizens have reasonable griev-
ances that call for justice. No one argues
that fact. * *
"But many do argue, and with justification,
that the method of remedying the grievances
merely creates new grievances. One injus-
tice is no excuse for concocting others."
There i however, a remedy:
"Experience suggests that we need a long-
range program of advance, a program that
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will give people time to adjust and gain
understanding, a program that will slowly
but surely bring about a rectification of in-
justices, a program that will be Christian in
spirit and method, a program that will not
increase racial tensions, but decrease them.
"One thing seems clear to me as a white
American: if the erosion of the private
rights of responsible, honorable citizens,
continues for the next 10 years, If the fed-
eralization of communities and States is
accelerated, our American dream will never
be fulfilled, and all citizens, and the entire
world will suffer in consequence.
"The imbalance existing now cannot be
solved by fired-up Negro leaders who are hired
to stoke fires and keep pots boiling.
"Nor can it be solved by those whites
whose minds are closed to the just com-
plaints of black men.
"Nor can it be solved by politicians whose
primary aim Is votes.
"Nor by the so-called civil rights bill in
Washington with its undefined and unde-
finable phrases.
'What we need and need desperately, Is a
moratorium on racial pressures. We need a
cooling-off period. We need a cessation of
the effort to compel white people by threat of
force to meet both the fair and unfair de-
mands of colored leaders.
"We need a prolonged period of inter-
racial planning in depth, in an atmosphere
free of coercion.
"Such a moratorium; would do more to
restore national equilibrium than all the
laws Congress can pass in the next 4 years."
We agree with Dr. Courtenay that unless
the national climate and the minds of many
Men Can be cleared of confusion and hys-
teria, all may be lost.
Further, the new-found doctrine of salva-
tion by integration needs reexamination.
The problem of racial equality encompasses
do Many dileniniaa that it is incapable of
solution to the satisfaction of all. But it
can only be solved by education and reli-
gious inspiration, not by force and coercion.
The civil rights bills, now seized upon as
a moral issue, are nothing of the sort. They
are entirely ,political In their origin, com-
pletely maerielistic in their approach and
cynical In the false promises they hold out
to the minority and their threat to the
Majority.
Sorensen's Unpublished Tribute
EXTENSION OP REMARKS
07
HON. JOHN W. McCORMACK
or stassecnirserrs
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, May 27, 1964
Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Speaker,
there are few persons who were closer to
our late beloved President John Fltzger-
ald Kennedy than Theodore C. Sorensen,
- On December 13, 1983 released by per-
mission of Mr. Sorensen and appearing
In the Boston Globe of May 24, 1964, is
an eloquent and touching tribute to our
late beloved President, delivered by Mr.
Sorensen to the Forum of the Wellesley
College of Massachusetts, which eloquent,
touching, and beautiful tribute I include
In my remarks.
SORIZISEN'S UNPUBLISHED Tarsi:Pre
(By Theodore C. Sorensen)
Three weeks ago today three shots rang
out under a Texas sky?and the brightest
light of our time was snuffed out by senseless
evil.
The voice which had always been calm
even in the face of adversity was silenced.
The heart which had always been kind
even in the midst of emergency was stopped.
And the laugh which had always been
gay even in reply to abuse was heard no
more in the land.
Crowds waited all night in the cold and
the wet to pass by his coffin in the dawn.
They wept on the streets of Moscow. They
prayed in the villages of Asia. They brought
candles to the wall in West Berlin.
Elders who had scoffed at his youth felt
suddenly that they had been orphaned.
Youth who had been Impatient with his
patience felt suddenly older and grayer.
And those of us who knew and served and
loved him felt, as the Irish felt on the death
of Owen Roe O'Neill, that we were lost and
alone,
"Sheep without a shepherd when the snow
shuts out the sky?
() why did you leave us?why did you die?"
For all of us, life goes on?but brightness
has fallen from the air. The world con-
tinues in the same orbit?but it is a dif-
ferent world. His hand-picked successor has
picked up the fallen torch and carries it
proudly and ably forward?but a golden age
Is over.
HIS MANY WEST,
Meanwhile, out among the tombs and
tablets of Arlington, a flickering light In the
night reminds us of Shelley's words on the
death of the youthful Keats:
'? ? * 'Ul the Future dares
Forget the past, his fate and fame shall be
An echo and a light unto eternity."
For John Fitzgerald Kennedy was not an
ordinary man, in either life or death. He
was the first President born in this century.
the first of the Catholic faith, the first to
reach out to space, the first to bear through-
out his term the awful and awesome obliga-
tion of the age of mutual destruction.
He was also the first, with the possible
exception of Jefferson, to care so deeply
about the quality of American life and its
moaning in the world.
There were poets and performers at his
inaugural. There were princes and prime
ministers at his funeral.
That special Kennedy quality that some
called by the superficial name of "style" was
-tit reality his insistence on excellence?ex-
cellence for his country and for himself,
.ancellence in matters of talent as well as
taste.
For he believed in the good society as well
53 the good life. He restored learning to
the seats of power, politics as a profession
of respect and pride in the hearts of his
eountrymen.
He was eloquent but never pompous, tough
but always gentle, an idealist but still a
realist. He knew when to reflect and when
to act.
He was a student of the past and a prophet
of the future, s thinker and doer who both
studied history and changed it.
He always saw the larger picture while
demanding all details. He thought of the
next generation as well as his own?and he
understood the difference between patience
and hesitation,
President Kennedy was unique in public
life. For he truly did not ask what his
country could do for him?only what he
could do for his country.
He inspired the loyalty of his associates.
yet encouraged us to dissent. Beloved by his
political friends, he courted his political
enemies.
He took the world very seriously but he
never took himself too seriously. He ac-
cepted blame that others sought to evade
and he shattered precedents that others
thought unbreakable.
LOVED SEIM IN COMMAND
In a world caught up in a series of peace-
ful and not so peaceful revolutions?revolu-
tions for which his countrymen and Con-
gress were not always fully prepared?he
charted new courses with caution as well as
courage.
He did not try to force solutions but to
find them?and his restraint was born not
out of irresolution but of reason.
He loved the command of his ship of state,
mindful of the views of his crew and pas-
sengers but determined to keep to his course;
and always prepared for the storm, he neither
turned back in the face of its fury, nor lost
his way, nor trimmed his sails.
In the end he was struck down by the
very malice and madness he had sought to
oast out?an ironic victim of the extreme
left in a citadel of the extreme right.
John Kennedy died as he would have
wanted to die?on his feet, in action, being
applauded by his friends and assaulted by
his foes as he carried the word of reason
and understanding to all who would hear
and heed him.
Even in death, he was teaching us?prov-
ing through his martyrdom the stupidity and
the futility of violence and venom?and prov-
ing, as he had always maintained, that the
extremists of left and right, each busily de-
nouncing the other, In reality fear reason
and hate truth far more than they fear and
hate each other.
WHAT HZ DID IN 1,000 DAYS
Be would remind us now that there is "a
time to be born and a time to die"?but in
our grief over the grotesque prematurity of
his death we could not believe this was his
time to die.
There was so much more he wanted to
do?he so dearly loved his family and his
work and life itself?he had so narrowly
escaped death twice before?and he had, as
he said so often quoting Robert Frost, "pro-
naises to keep and miles to go before I sleep."
How, then, could It be that he should be
taken from us when he stood on the very
threshold of the promised land to which he
had led us?
John Kennedy led the American people to
the frontiers of a modern "Promised Land"?
an era of enduring peace and equal rights,
a new age of space and a renewed age of
reason?and though he has not been allowed
to cross over, we need not turn back now.
Kennedy was young?some may say did he
not die too young and too soon to be a major
figure in history? The answer Is all about
us, in the works and words of those who died
even younger than he.
We have not forgotten Byron or Keats or
Shelley. We do not now regard as incom-
plete the music of Schumann or Schubert,
the art of Van Gogh or Van Dyck.
No?nor did the continent explored by
Henry Hudson and Meriwether Lewis, or the
philosophies devised by Thoreau and Pascal
and Kierkegaard, perish with their untimely
deaths.
Yet still the thought remains that he had
so little time. The administration of John
Fitzgerald Kennedy, in little more than 1.000
days and 1.000 nights, breathed new spirit
and. new quality into every aspect of Amer-
ican life. Ile wasted no time and he wasted
no opportunities.
No other President in history did so much
to show friend and foe alike the suicidal
futility of nuclear war and the enduring pos-
sibilities of peace.
No other President in this century did so
much for human rights and the recognition
of human dignity.
No other President in this century achieved
so much legislation for the health and edu-
cation of Americans.
No other President in peacetime history
ever achieved so great and rapid an increase
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