WE MUST ACT IN CUBA EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. EDGAR W. HIESTAND

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jug swiftly to assure that there is adequate
chaplaincy coverage at every military in-
stallation at home and abroad.
"Our armed services division is alerting
its 260 local committees and their thousands
of volunteers to be ready to provide what-
ever additional morale and welfare services
may be needed.
"We are reviewing our logistical support
of religious supplies, literature and services
over and above that provided by the Gov-
ernment with a view to meeting all the re-
ligious and morale needs of men in the
Armed Forces.
"We are also calling upon our more than
300 affiliated Jewish Community Centers and
YM-YWHA's to be ready to lend their know-
how and facilities for any expanded morale
and recreational services to the military that
become necessary."
Mr. Litt wrote the President that his ad-
dress of July 25, "alerting all Americans to
the critical world situation that requires a
major enlargement of our military forces,
has placed upon all of us the responsibility
to do whatever may be in our power, indi-
vidually and collectively, to answer your call.
May God give our country the vision and
courage to continue, under your leadership,
unhindered and unafraid to pursue the path
of decency and righteousness which we have
always trod and which you have recharted
We Must Act in Cuba
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. EDGAR W. HIESTAND
OF CALIFORNIA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Tuesday, September 5, 1961
Mr. HIESTAND. Mr. Speaker, a page
The United States can't wait hopefully for
an internal revolution in Cuba. Massive
Soviet aid to Castro has made that impos-
sible without external help.
The United States ought to move now and
move with all necessary military strength.
Study of Nation's Transport ro e s
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. VANCE HARTKE
OF INDIANA
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED -STATES
Tuesday, September 5, 1961
Mr. HARTKE. Mr. President, our
Nation's transportation system is in
vital need of a major revamping. This
is most important not only from the
standpoint of national defense, but for
economic strength and stability as well
as continuation of our free enterprise
system. For these reasons and others,
I recommend that my colleagues read
the following story from the August 15
issue of the Daily-Bond Buyer reporting
on President Kennedy's assignment to
Secretary of Commerce Hodges to study
all phases of transportation and make
recommendations to him by December
of this year.
I ask unanimous consent to have this
article printed in the Appendix of the
RECORD.
There being no objection, the article
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD,
as follows:
COMMERCE SECRETARY HODGES READY To
TACKLE STUDY OF NATION'S TRANSPORT
PROBLEMS
1, Los Angeles Times editorial August
10, 1961, calls for some strong action by
the United States in Cuba.
The basic theme is still timely. How
are we to show firmness in Berlin if we
allow this Communist sore to fester only
90 miles from Florida? I submit the
editorial for the attention of all Ameri-
cans.
WE MUST ACT IN CUBA
Communist Cuba is a modern Caribbean
pirate nest. Its rulers encourage by exam-
ple all the Communist conspirators, crimi-
nals and crackpots of the islands and the
adjacent continent. They have shown they
can threaten American lives and property,
and injure the prestige of the U.S. Govern-
ment at a critical time in international
affairs.
So the United States has got to destroy
this pirate nest.
The fact that the Cuban Government re-
leased the last hijacked American plane and
its crew and passengers does not alter the
necessity of action by the U.S. Government.
As long as Castro operates as an outlaw he
will inspire outlawry throughout the hemi-
sphere.
The case against the Castro government
is plain. What is less apparent is that unless
the Unites States acts at once against Cas-
tro, and acts boldly this country will be iso-
lated from most of Latin America in short
order-sooner than Moscow's time schedule
calls for the event.
We have made war for less injury than
Castro has done us and for less threat to our
legitimate interests in this hemisphere.
(By John Gerrity)
WASHINGTON, August 18.-There was a
wistful quality in Luther Hodges' voice as
he spoke to reporters last week about the
Nation's transportation problems. "It's
probably the toughest assignment I'll be
asked to take, so long as I'm in this job,"
the Commerce Secretary said. "And, by the
way, if any of you have any suggestions on
how we can lick this thing, I'll certainly wel-
come them."
Suggestions are one thing Secretary
Hodges doesn't need. For the past 20 years,
at least; his Department has been surfeited
with suggestions, as he and his new aid,
Dr. Gayton E. Germane, will soon discover,
when they take up the monolithic task
President Kennedy has handed them: To
analyze the Nation's transportation system;
evaluate it in terms of our needs for the
next decade; summarize the entire prob-
lem in one concise memorandum; add a draft
omnibus bill that will satisfy the railroads,
airlines, truckers, coastal ship operators,
barge owners, shippers, freight handlers,
users and passengers, unions and manage-
ment, State and local governments, and the
public-and deliver the completed package
to the President's desk by December 1.
Huge as this task may be, Mr. Hodges and
his staff aren't getting started a moment too
soon. Indeed, drastic action next year may
be too late to prevent the nationalization of
railroads within the next 10 or 16 years, a
substantial reduction in the number of air-
lines and the tight regulation of what would
become an essentially noncompetitive
system.
CRITICS PICTURE
Critics of this and previous administra-
tions who are genuinely fearful nothing
short of a miracle can bring some kind of
order out of the present day chaos, insist
that consistent procrastination-interrupted
only by suggestions and studies-has pro-
duced this picture:
Railroads today are earning 1.45 percent
on their investment. Carloadings are 13
percent under a year ago. Expenditures for
new equipment and rolling stock is off by a
third.
Airlines lost almost $20 million in the first
5 months of 1961, and made only $2 million
last year, despite total revenues of nearly $2
billion. Because of the high costs of jets,
ferocious competition for business on the
lucrative routes and flights that have been
running 40 percent empty, airlines will be
most fortunate if their total losses this year
aren't double their slight combined profit
last year.
Intercity buses are carrying only 18 or 19
passengers on an average trip, the same
number as they carried 10 years ago, while
the capacity of the larger buses now in serv-
ice is 39 passengers, as opposed to 35 in the
1950's.
Trucks and barges that do not now come
under effective Federal regulation haul one-
third of the intercity freight, compared with
21 percent in 1946. Nonregulated carriers
are expected to carry 61 peront of the busi-
ness 10 years from now.
These are but a few of the hallmarks of
universal gloom. There are more. A Senate
staff study estimated earlier this year that at
least $50 billion will be needed in the next
decade to keep the transportation industry
abreast of the expected needs. Yet, said the
report, prepared by Retired Gen. John P.
Doyle for the Senate Commerce Committee,
the industry can be expected to generate
only 10 to 20 percent-or $5 to $10 billion-
of the $50 billion needed for investment pur-
poses.
Massive Government aid which means
stepped-up subsidies, nationalization or care-
fully regulated competition-or very possibly
all three-and not merely tax relief or re-
laxed ratemaking rules will be needed.
Much of this helps to explain the adminis-
tration's reluctance to plunge into the trans-
portation crisis until now, and its preference
to put off decisions in the name of additional
study. It also explains what Mr. Hodges and
his experts will have to hump, if they expect
to salvage anything even distantly akin to
what has often been euphemistically referred
to as "a free competitive transportation sys-
tem."
WHO'S TO BLAME?
Doubtless, the Government itself, and its
hodgepodge mess of regulatory bodies, must
share prominently in the blame. James M.
Landis, the President's adviser on regulatory
agencies as well as on transportation prob-
lems, has opposed sugestions that a Depart-
ment of Transportation be established to
coordinate Federal transportation policies
and regulations. Rather, Mr. Landis argued
for a White House coordinator to see that
agencies concerned with some aspect of the
problem were not working at cross purposes.
The recent Senate study, a massive 732-
page affair, however, as well as President
Eisenhower's administration, were solidly
behind the idea of a Transportation Depart-
ment. The President's recent decision to
give the job back to Secretary Hodges, for
the time being, at least, impliedly tendered
Mr. Landis his comeuppance, and it augurs
well for the creation of an independent de-
partment, since Mr. Hodges is known to lean
in that direction.
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A threat to the security of the United
States-which has suspended nuclear testing
since 1958;
A heightening of world tensions;
A serious hazard-that could have not
only immediate, but long-range effects-to
the health of the nearly 3 billion people of
earth, by further saturation of the air we
breath with radioactive fallout.
The resumption of testing, too, will result
in higher costs of armaments for both East
and West.
Moreover, it may hasten the day when Red
China-a grave threat to peace in the Far
East-will possess nuclear bombs to support
its aggressive policies.
By experience, we know that such major
changes in strategy do not happen accident-
ally in Red policy.
Around the globe, then, the question is
being asked: Why should Khrushchev choose
this time to resume testing of nuclear
bombs? The range of answers includes the
following:
1. He wants an opportunity to test and
show off the 100-megaton superbomb-about
which he has been bragging,
2. Unsatisfied with present tactics, at-
tempts at nuclear blackmail, again will
become a major aspect of Communist policy.
Specifically, this includes, as we have wit-
nessed, threats of annihilation against
countries cooperating with the West for
common defense-particularly those in
NATO.
8. A further heightening of world ten-
sions-including raising the specter of nu-
clear war-may be necessary to keep the
dominated people mobilized against the West.
Following the ominous, provocation decla-
ration, Mr. Khrushchev is now busy trying
to justify the decision. Around the globe,
the Red-propaganda machine is cranking out
lame excuses-including in engaging in dou-
ble talk aimed at blaming the United States
for the Red decision to resume testing.
In the face of such false charges, how-
ever, the United States must be alert to
speak up in self-defense.
The peaceshaking provocation, too, is
making its own dramatic impact upon world
thinking. Reactions of nations have been
crystallized in such terms as: "dangerous
action;" "bad news;" "setbacks to progress
toward reduction of armaments;" "a fateful
decision that seriously threatens world
peace."
In the face of this new aggressive tactic
by the Soviet Union, then what can be done?
First, and foremost, I believe that-
1. The nations attending the Conference
in Belgrade should demonstrate their mettle
by speaking out against resumption of nu-
clear testing:
2. The U.N., opening September 19, should
take vigorous action to discourage further
nuclear tests, as well as to establish a system
of arms reduction and control-including
test bans.
Overall, the prevention of nuclear war is a
matter of great concern, not just to the
opposing East-West nations, but to all the
countries of the world.
Despite the magnitude of the dangers, let
me stress this: This is no time for hysteria,
paralysis by fear, or adopting of an attitude
of peace at any price by nations. Rather,
we-confident in the rightness of our
cause-must fearlessly take steps to meet
the challenges, including the following:
A solemn evaluation of the danger;
Further strengthening Western deterrent
power-including taking the necessary steps
to protect ourselves with a nuclear anti-
dote;
Exertion of a greater effort for halting the
arms race: and
A mobilization of world opinion against
Red tactics, which threaten to endanger the
lives of all people-either by war, or by over-
saturating the atmosphere with radioactive
fallout.
Letter From a Private, First Class, in Ger-
many to His Family Back Home
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. ROBERT L. F. SIKES
OF FLORIDA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Tuesday, September 5, 1961
Mr. SIKES. Mr. Speaker, I have a
letter which was handed to me by Gen.
Bruce Clarke, who commands our troops
in Europe. It is a letter of a private, first
class, in the U.S Army written to his
family back home. This is a down-to-
earth but thrilling account of the reac-
tion of an American boy to the reception
given to his unit on their way through
East Germany and after their arrival in
West Berlin. This letter should tell all
of us a great deal that we need to know:
COMPANY,
lST BATTLE GROUP, 18TH INFANTRY,
APO 28, New York, N.Y.
DEAR FOLKS: I suppose that by now you
have read about the sharp strike outfit of
the 1st Battle Group, 18th Infantry moving
into Berlin. I think I can truthfully say
that this is the most exciting thing I have
ever participated in in all my life. Man, we
were ready to fight our way across the Helm-
stedt Gate. They woke us up at midnight
of the 19th on an alert. Six hours later we
had everything loaded on the trucks and we
were on the road. Half of the men didn't
get breakfast, but I managed to get six eggs.
Good thing I did, too, for we kept on driving
right through lu%ch. That night at the
border we got nothing but soup and coffee.
We pitched our tents at midnight and broke
them at 0015 and loaded everything back up.
Sitting up in the 2%'s was not much fun
while waiting for the daylight to come, but
thinking about the ammo that was being
passed out to the line companies in case we
had to shoot our way into Berlin kept us
awake. Well, we left at about 0500 and ate
cold C rations (by then they tasted pretty
good) on the road. The next time we
stopped was when we pulled into this kaserne
in Berlin. I am telling you that I have never
in history seen anything like the way the
people of this city greeted us as we drove in.
They lined up by the thousands from the
gate all the way to this kaserne. And we
drove up and down all the main streets of
this monstrous city as a show of strength
and a demonstration that the Americans are
going to defend these people all the way. I
broke out my camera and took 34 pictures of
the entire episode in this city. We had what
just about amounted to a guided tour. The
people were so happy to see us that some of
them were literally crying. Placards, ban-
ners, posters, everything greeted us as
though we had just returned from a victo-
rious war. I felt just like General Eisen-
hower on his victory parade in New York
City after World War II. About a third of
the way down the parade we passed Colonel
Johns (our CO) standing on a platform next
to LYNDON JoHNsoN watching the men pass
by. You better believe I took pictures of
that. When Mr. JOHNSON saw me pass by
standing up taking a picture of them he
looked at me and waved. Big thrill, but not
as much as the one from the realization
that I am really in the thick of it all de-
fending my country and freedom and
democracy the world over in the world's
hottest spot. The whole trip yester-
day was an experience to top everything else
I have ever done. Driving right through the
Communist troops-and they had units on
both sides of us and men stationed along the
road every few hundred meters-was really
something. What a change of air there was
as soon as wegot into East Germany. The
people were very glad to see us going through
to Berlin, and every time we passed a group
they would wave if there were no Communist
soldiers watching. I could go on and on
about all this, but I am sure that this is a
familiar story to you all, particularly Dad.
Mobilization for Religious and Welfare
Services
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
of
HON. KENNETH B. KEATING
OF NEW YORK
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
Tuesday, September 5, 1961
Mr. KEATING. Mr. President, in
view of the deepening crisis over Berlin,
it is imperative for the entire Nation
to plan and consider what action must be
taken to meet this crisis.
The National Jewish Welfare Board is
already moving to meet additional de-
mands of Jewish religious and welfare
services for military personnel and their
dependents, as a result of the emergency
buildup in Armed Forces strength. I
am glad to observe the immediate and
patriotic response of this association to
meet the new personal as well as military
demands for our people and to make
firm and lasting the ties between the
individual, his home, and his religion.
I ask unanimous consent to include a
press release from the National Jewish
Welfare Board in the Appendix of the
RECORD.
There being no objection, the article
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD,
as follows: -
NATIONAL JEWISH WELFARE BOARD REPORTS TO
PRESIDENT KENNEDY ON REMOBILIZATION FOR
RELIGIOUS AND WELFARE SERVICES TO JEWISH
GI's SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 1961
NEW YORK.-The National Jewish Welfare
Board (JWB) today reported to President
John F. Kennedy that it is remobilizing all
its resources and manpower to meet addi-
tional demands for religious and welfare serv-
ices to Jewish military personnel and their
dependents resulting from the emergency
buildup of Armed Forces strength requested
by the President and approved by Congress.
In a letter to President Kennedy, Solomon
Litt, New York, president of JWB, declared
that "on behalf of American Jewry, which
the National Jewish Welfare Board has repre-
sented since World War I in serving their
religious, welfare, and morale needs of Jewish
military personnel and their dependents, it
is my privilege to report to you that we are
remobilizing all our resources and manpower
to meet whatever needs may arise in the light
of your call for a buildup of military
strength."
JWB is the Government-authorized agency
for meeting the religious and morale needs of
Jewish military personnel and of Jewish pa-
tients in Veterans Administration hospitals,
and represents the Jewish community in the
United Service Organizations (USO). JWB
is also the national association of Jewish
Community Centers and YM-YWHA's.
In his letter to President Kennedy, Mr.
Litt cited four steps JWB has already taken:
"Our Commission on Jewish Chaplaincy
and its associated rabbinical bodies are mov-
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