CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-APPENDIX

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• Publication Date: October 7, 1965
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"DEAR SIR: It is a pleasure to let you know day, that the Chinese Communists were try- The Immigration Act-A Milestone in
we appreciate you being our Congressman, ing "to transfer the county of Sou th Vi t
y
and all the things you are doing for us. I na e -
M into a proving ground for their theories."
am taking training at Jackson, Ohio, at the Their theories, in effect, are that "people's
manpower training center. It is a wonderful revolutionary wars"-in other words, wars
opportunity for people who aren't qualified that are likely to bring to power Communists
for a job. We have good instructors. We are tributary to Peiping-are just, must be sup-
grateful to all of you that helped get the ported, and will end in victory for the revolu-
training started. tionaries.
"Yours truly, Chinese Defense Minister Lin Piao wrote
"Roan; BLUSHER." the other day: "The spiritual atom bomb that
This letter, eventually reached the desk of the revolutionary people possess is a far more
the President of the United States. Press- powerful and useful weapon than the physi-
International Relations
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
of
HON. HERBERT TENZER
OF NEW YORK
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, October 7, 1965
dent Johnson said the letter "gave him a cal atom bomb." Mr. TENZER. Mr. Speaker, this Na-
heartwarming insight into the value of the This statement of Marshal Lin's appeared Lion passed an historic milestone in its
manpower training program
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on which Ambassador Gold-
Robie was proud of his letter to the Con- berg commented with such vigor in his United
gressman. He was proud to be able to write Nations speech. In the manifesto, too, was
to- his family. He was proud to be able to a sentence which-placed alongside Mr. Gold-
help his smaller children. berg's words quoted above-points up the
A new world was opening for Robie Blusher. confrontation and the incompatible posi-
He continued his studies and his training tions in Vietnam. "The United States," the
at the manpower training center. But it marshal wrote, "has made South Vietnam a
ended this past weekend for Robie. He died testing ground for the suppression of peo-
of a heart attack at his home to the shock ple's war."
of his family and friends and fellow students Such phrases of doubletalk have been
and instructors at the manpower training- made familiar in this age by the Commu-
center. nists, but the basic situation is age old.
But we don't think Roble's training was The conflict in Vietnam results from a colli-
in vain. And Robie was but one of many sion on the frontier between the legitimate
students in the basic education classes at areas of power of two giants.
the manpower center who are showing tre- The United States-the only one of the
mendous progress. three actual or potential superpowers that
Roble's instructor Art Jenkins and the is an air and sea power rather.than a land
training center director Clarence Gingerich power-is legitimately concerned with what
report almost unbelievable progress in this happens, not only along its own coastline,
area and other areas, of the training pro- but on the far shores of the two oceans that
gram. it is fantastic in many cases to see bound it. For an air or sea power, the op-
the development and growth of the indi-
viduals," says Director Gingerich. pasits shore is always a possible launching
Robie Blusher, a man coming out of a that pad is why for ror sea Britain attacks. (Ie ct a old days it
always reacted when It
shell, will be mourned. But the program he
international relations on October 3
when President Johnson signed the new
immigration bill abolishing the national
origins quota system.
For 40 years we have suffered a stain
to remain on - our statute books and on
the beautiful lady on Liberty Island who
watches over our New York gateway and
in whose shadow the President signed
this historic bill.
Beginning in 1924, we proclaimed to
the world that a person's contribution to
our national well-being, and his right to
join our national community, was to be
judged in large part by the place of his
birth or the country of his ancestors.
This theme, so repugnant to our ideas
of the equality of man, has haunted us at
home and abroad for four decades.
By the act of October 3 we shall no
longer be concerned with a man's birth-
place or ancestry but he will be judged
on two factors only: His relationship to
vuauuet.) - skills and talents he may bring with him,
Thus the United States has a justifiable in- the better to help us in forging our na-
t Is at Stake in Vietnam terest in what happens along the Pacific tional society. -
coast of Asia. This explains and validates its No one should fear these changes.
present commitments in Ja
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EXTENSION OF REMARKS rea, in the Philippines-and In, South Viet- tertained th t
HON. ROBERT N, C. NIX
OF PENNSYLVANIA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, October 7, 1965 -
Mr. NIX. Mr Speaker, - the Christian
Science Monitor recently carried an edi-
torial which I believe is the clearest and
most compelling argument for President
Johnson's Policies in Vietnam that has
been published to date. With typical re-
straint, but with incisive logic-and the
facts to back it up-the Monitor has, in
my -opinion, completely demolished all
the arguments that have been used
against our involvement in that wartorn
country. The editorial acknowledges
the criticism of our policy, but, concludes:
We believe the first, signs are now coming
from that troubled and unhappy land that
the policy was right, even though the end
desired may still be far away. A change in
mood is reported from Saigon. And the
United States seems to be making the point
that was so needed-that - it simply cannot
and will not be ejected from South Vietnam
by force.
I hope all of my colleagues will read
this excellent editorial:
[From the Christian. Science Monitor,.Sept.
25, 19651
...WHAT IS AT STAKE IN VIETNAM
Ambassador Arthur Goldberg told the
United Nations General Assembly, Thurs-
gam. a we are substantially in-
Looking outward from the Asian heartland, creasing our immigration; relaxing our
the Chinese Communists see this same rim standards of admission; or prejudicing
of Asia as the frontier of their power. And the jobs we hold. The bill authorizes a
so they find themselves in collision with the purely nominal increase in total immi-
United States. Under normally - civilized gration. It does not change any of the
conditions, a modus vivendi surely could be grounds of inadmissibility or deportabil-
found-as the United States and the Soviet ity.
Union eventually found one at a point where The new law does not prohibit the
they were in collision in Europe. This was entry of aliens who do not have the rela-
in Austria. But an Austrian settlement
would never have come about, had the So tionship or the skills which result in a
vlets committed themselves to ousting the preferential treatment. It does not per-
Americans from the country by force-as the mit such an immigrant to come here, but
Chinese, subtly and indirectly, have com- only after preference classes have been
mitted themselves to ousting the Americans taken care of and only- if the Secretary
from Vietnam. - of Labor has determined that his admis-
There has been this year sharp criticism sion to this country will not undermine
from some quarters within the free world the wages and working conditions of the
of President Johnson's policy of escalation
in Vietnam. We believe the first signs are employed American.
now coming from that troubled and un- No longer, however, will the immigrant
happy land that the policy was right, even without family ties or outstanding talent
though the end desired may still be far away. be able to migrate here immediately be-
A change in mood is reported from Saigon. cause he was born in northern or west-
And the United States seems to bee making ern Europe, while a U.S. citizen waits for
the point that was so needed-that it simply years before. his aged parents from
cannot and will not be ejected from South
Vietnam by force. - southern or eastern Europe can obtain
There is repeated evidence from President a quota number.
Johnson. himself-and most recently in Am- No longer will the scientist from
bassador Goldberg's speech-that the U.S, southern Asia be kept from joining the
purpose in Vietnam is indeed not war but staff of an American university because
peace and tranquillity for all Asia. We be- only 100 persons may be allowed to en-
lieve in the sincerity of the administration's ter this country annually from his na-
invitation to the United Nations to help find tive land.
a way to peace. And, generally speaking, the
path chosen by the administration this year No longer will the refugee from com-
is the one most likely to produce the right munism''s tyranny and oppression be
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - APPENDI .e alter 7, 19,65
United States, a term too closely asso-
ciated with the status of the released
criminal. For the first time in our im-
migration experience, a.specific author-
ization for the orderly entry of 10,700
such refugees annually has been incor-
porated into our basic law.
The new law is not a general revision
of the patchwork quilt of sometimes ob-
scure and sometimes contradictory legis-
lation on immigration which occupies
over 175 pages of our statute books. It
is, however, a clear-cut repudiation of
the fallacious and demeaning philoso-
phy which constituted the national ori-
gins quota system. In the best sense of
the term it is a selfish law. While its
provisions give greater hope to those
outside our gates, in the elimination of
this 20th century shibboleth the greatest
beneficiaries of the law are the Ameri-
can people.
I am proud to have been a sponsor of
this legislation and to have been present
at the historic ceremonies on Liberty
Island when our President signed the
immigration bill and reaffirmed our na-
tional policy.
Art in Iowa Besmirched
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
or
HON. JOHN A. RACE
OF WISCONSIN
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, October 7, 1965
bills off the floor. This time he alone led
the snicker assault. It fell extremely flat.
The arts-and-humanities subsidy bill won
overwhelming passage, and more bills like it
doubtless will appear in years ahead.
When it comes to Iowa's involvement in
the arts, a far more fitting theme for na-
tional exposure would stress what Iowa has
done in arts promotion fund-raising efforts
for a million-dollar art gallery project on
the University of Iowa campus are nearing
success. Cedar Rapids is completing a cam-
paign for $250,000 in contributions to re-
model its art center building. Des Moines
has an art center known and respected
throughout the State. So does Davenport.
So does Marshalltown. So do several other
Iowa communities whose interest mirrors
that of countless Iowans in tune with cul-
tural enrichment progress everywhere.
To contradict this with misleading, stale
comedy in Congress paints a picture both
phony and harmful. The oldtime boob-bloc
image was deserved and apropos, perhaps,
but now it belongs to a bygone day that no
true spokesman for the State should wrongly
advertise.
EXTENSION OF
or
its gross funds for all educational
purposes, while the States allocate about
35 percent of their gross funds to the
schools, while local governments invest
45 percent.
In his talk before the Education Writ-
ers Tuesday, Commissioner Keppel
pointed out that the Governors and edu-
cators attending the recent Interstate
Compact for Education conference in
Kansas City, Mo., acknowledged the in-
creasing need for Federal financial help
to the Nation's school systems. On the
other hand, they also urged stronger
leadership in this area on the part of the
States and. local governments. In this,
Commissioner Keppel agrees. And so
do I. And, I feel sure, so do the great
majority of the Members of the Congress.
The Elementary and Secondary Edu-
cation Act of 1965 spells this out. As
Commissioner Keppel points out:
Title V of the act is directed to help
strengthen our State departments of educa-
tion, the pivotal agencies on which we must
depend if we mean to keep American educa-
to Success tion both strong and decentralized.
HON. SAM GIBBONS
OF FLORIDA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, October 7, 1965
Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, the U.S.
Commissioner of Education, Francis
Keppel this week delivered a significant
address on the subject of the role of the
Federal Government in American educa-
Mr. RACE. Mr. Speaker, the Cedar tion.
Rapids, Iowa, Gazette is deeply con- He appeared before a seminar of the
eerned that Members of this body, and Educational Writers Association, meet-
Americans all over this country, may ing at the Mayflower Hotel in Wash-
have gotten the impression that Iowans ington, Tuesday, October 5.
are not concerned about arts and hu- One of the reoccurring themes we
inanities. hear so often, from some quarters, is that
As a gesture of friendliness to my with the increasing Federal participa-
neighbor State of Iowa, and lest some tion in the Nation's educational proc-
Members actually believe Iowans do not esses, there will follow Federal control
care for art, I include as part of my re- and eventual domination, as surely as
marks the Gazette editorial of October 2, night follows day.
1965, "Art in Iowa Besmirched": Commissioner Keppel does not believe
ART rim Iowe BESMIRCHED that this is true, nor has to be the case.
When the U.S. House of Representatives Neither do I. I think the Commissioner
this month approved a bill to subsidize the has successfully harpooned this argu-
arts and humanities with grants of $21 mil- ment. In his outstanding talk, he points
lion for each of 3 years, Iowa's Representa- out that the Federal Government, in re-
tive H. R. GROSS made nationwide news in ality, is a "junior partner," with the
his effort to beat the bill by ridicule. States and local governments, in Ameri-
We are not convinced that Federal aid to can education.
artists, performers and scholars will be alto- Mr. Keppel correctly emphasizes that
gether good for them or for the country, but
we do see regrettable flaws in derision as a the Federal Government has had a vital
weapon of attack. interest in American education extend-
Representative GROSS misreads the atti- mg back virtually to the start of this
tude of many Iowans and does no service to Nation. He points out that today Amer-
the State in spreading an impression that ican education is not controlled in Wash-
Iowans belittle the arts or consider them ington, but in the State capitals, the
the and
Houuse. subject had to that scorn. effect His Opposition through several al local school districts, and the classrooms
o
the
deadpan Gross amendments, all rejected. of this country. Support for education
One proposed'that belly-dancing be in- in the United States is predominantly in
eluded in the arts definition. Another the hands of State and local govern-
would have added to it "baseball, football, ments. Even with the sharp increase in
golf, tennis, squash, pinochle and poker." Federal contributions to our education
Another suggested direct arts aid to Appa- processes in the past several years, nota-
Ischia and the "poverty-stricken areas of bly through outstanding educational
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