A NEW WHITE FLEET

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• Publication Date: July 21, 1959
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House of Representatives
The House met at 12 o'clock noon.
The Chaplain, Rev. Bernard Braskamp,
D.D., offered the following prayer:
Isaiah 41: 6: They helped everyone his
neighbor; and everyone said to his
brother, Be of good courage.
Eternal God, our Father, whose divine
help we so greatly need, inspire us to be
more conscious of Thy all-pervading
presence and sustaining power when we
face the tensions and pressures of each
new day.
May our labors be crowned with suc-
cess as we endeavor to widen the areas of
cooperation and good will among the
nations of the earth, with none seel-;ing
their own selfish advantage.
Grant us the faith to believe that the
kingdom of righteousness and peace is
slowly and surely being built, no matter
how dark the clouds of national and in-
ternational welter and woe, at times, may
seem to be.
We beseech Thee to accept our praises
and answer our petitions through the
merits and mediation of our blessed
Lord. Amen.
THE JOURNAL
The Journal of the proceedings of yes-
terday was read and approved.
FACILITATING THE ADMISSION OF
CERTAIN ALIENS
Mr. WALTER. Mr. Speaker, I ask
unanimous consent to take from the
Speaker's table the resolution (H.J. Res.
323) to facilitate the admission into the
United States of certain aliens, with
Senate amendments thereto, and con-
cur in the Senate amendments.
The Clerk read the title of the joint
resolution.
The Clerk read the Senate amend-
ments, as follows:
Page 3, strike out lines 13, 14, and 15.
Page 3, line 16, strike out "7" and insert
Page 3, line 24, strike out "8" and insert
Page 4, line 4, strike out "9" and insert
Page 4, line 12, strike out "10" and insert
Page 4, line 20, strike out "11" and insert
Page 5, line 5, strike out "12" and insert
Page 5, line 9, strike out "13" and insert
"12".
Page 5, line 13, strike out "14" and insert
"13".
Page 5, strike out lines 18 to 22, inclusive.
Page 5, line 23, strike out "16" and insert
"14".
Page 6, strike out lines 7, 8, and 9.
TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1959
The SPEAKER. Is there objection to
the request of the gentleman from Penn-
sylvania?
There was no objection.
The Senate amendments were con-
curred in.
A motion to reconsider was Jaid on the
table.
FACILITATING THE ADMISSION OF
CERTAIN ALIENS
Mr. WALTER. Mr. Speaker, I ask
unanimous consent to take from the
Speaker's table the resolution (H.J. Res.
353) to facilitate the admission into the
United States of certain aliens, with Sen-
ate amendments thereto, and concur in
the Senate amendments.
The Clerk read the title of the joint
resolution.
The Clerk read the Senate amend-
ments, as follows:
Page 3, strike out lines 4 to 11, inclusive,
Page 3, line 12, strike out "5" and insert
"4".
Page 3, line 14, strike out "Micheline," and
insert "Michaline and".
Page 3, line 14, strike out ", and Pancrazio".
Page 3, line 18, strike out "6" and insert
Page 3, line 23, strike out "7" and insert
Page 3, lines 24 and 25, strike out "the mi-
nor child,".
Page 4, line 1, after "the" insert "minor".
Page 4, line 2, after ''Palatos" insert ", citi-
zens of the United States",
Page 4, line 6, strike out "8" and insert
Page 4, line 11, strike out "9" and insert
Page 4, line 15, strike out "10" and insert
Page 4, line 23, strike out "11" and insert
"10".
Page 5, line 1, strike out "12" and insert
"11".
Page 5, after line 3, insert:
"SEc. 12. For the purposes of sections
101(a) (27) (A) and 205 of the Immigration
and Nationality Act, Yoko Kawamura shall
be held and considered to be the natural-
born minor alien child of Mr. and Mrs. Donat
Beland, citizens of the United States."
The SPEAKER. Is there objection to
the request of the-gentleman from Penn-
sylvania?
There was no objection.
The Senate amendments were con-
curred in.
A motion to reconsider was laid on
the table.
MONMOUTH COUNTY, N.J.
Mr. LANE. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani-
mous consent to take from the Speaker's
desk the bill (H.R. 322) for the relief of
Monmouth County, N.J., with a Senate
amendment thereto, and concur in the
Senate amendment.
The Clerk read the title of the bill.
The Clerk read the Senate amend-
ment, as follows:
Page 2, lines 2 and 3, strike out "in excess
of 10 per centum thereof".
The SPEAKER. Is there objection to
the request of the gentleman from
Massachusetts?
There was no objection.
The Senate amendment was concurred
in.
A motion to reconsider was laid on the
table.
HARRY F. LINDALL
Mr. LANE. Mr. Speaker, I ask unan-
imous consent to take from the Speak-
er's desk the bill (HR. 1605) for the re-
lief of Harry F. Lindall, with a Senate
amendment thereto, and concur in the
Senate amendment.
The Clerk read the title of the bill.
The Clerk read the Senate amend-
ment, as follows:
-Strike out all after the enacting clause
and insert: "That sections 15 to 20, inclu-
sive, of the Act entitled 'An Act to provide
for employees of the United States suffering
injuries while in the performance of their
duties, and for other purposes,' approved
September 7, 1916, as amended (5 U.S.C.
765-770), are hereby waived in favor of
Harry F. Lindall, of Port Orchard, Wash-
ington, and his claim for compensation for
disability allegedly caused by his employ-
ment in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard
'beginning in May 1946 is_authorized and di-
rected to be considered and acted upon un-
der the remaining provisions of such Act, as
amended, if he files such claim with the
Department of Labor (Bureau of Employees'
Compensation) not later than six months
after the date of enactment of this Act:
Provided, That no benefits except hospital
and medical expenses actually incurred shall
accrue for any period of time prior to the
date of enactment of this Act."
The SPAKER. Is there objection to
the request of the gentleman from
Massachusetts?
There was no objection.
The Senate amendment was con-
curred in.
A motion to reconsider was laid on the
table.
A NEW WHITE FLEET
(Mr. EDMONDSON asked and was
given permission to address the House
for 1 minute and to revise and extend
his remarks.)
Mr. EDMONDSON. Mr. Speaker, I
have today introduced a resolution call-
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12660 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD ? HOUSE
ing upon the President to revive the
Great White Fleet of Theodore Roose-
velt's day and to put such a fleet to work
in the cause of peace.
The resolution, also introduced in the
House by the Honorable WILLIAM BATES
and in the other body by Senators Hu-
BERT HUMPHREY and GEORGE AMEN, was
inspired by a 38-year-old naval officer
from Oklahoma, Comdr. Frank A. Man-
son.
It urges that naval vessels be taken
from mothballs to serve as mercy ships
in the delivery of surplus American foods,
medicine, and other supplies to disaster
and distress areas of the world.
The Manson proposal, described in to-
day's issue of Life magazine as a bold
proposal for peace, makes a great deal
more sense to me than some parts of
our foreign-aid program as it is now
being administered.
The plan combines two basic pioneer-
ing ideas often missing in our foreign-
aid program. These ideas are giving di-
rect help to a neighbor in distress and
using the tools at hand to do the job.
By using our mothballed fleet to carry
surplus food and American technical help
to disaster and distress areas of the
world, we can place at least a part of our
mutual aid program upon a direct, peo-
ple-to-people basis, and assure maxi-
mum benefit to our own country's inter-
ests in the process.
At a cost that is only a fraction of
existing foreign-aid projects?with no
danger of resulting injury to American
industries?we can launch and maintain
a Great White Fleet to serve both Amer-
? ican interests and world peace.
Later this week I will speak at length
on the new white fleet proposal, and
I urge your support of thisboi
for peace.
ITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Mr. MORGAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask
unanimous consent that the Committee
on Foreign Affairs may have until mid-
night tonight to file a conference report
on the bill H.R. 7500.
The SPEAKER. Is there objection
to the request of the gentleman from
Pennsylvania?
There was no objection.
The conference report and statement
are as follows:
CONFERENCE REPORT (H. REPT. No, 695)
The committee of conference on the dis-
agreeing votes of the two Houses on the
amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R.
7500) to amend further the Mutual Security
Act of 1954, as amended, and for other pur-
poses, having met, after full and free con-
ference, have agreed to recommend and do
recommend to their respective Houses as
follows:
That the House recede from its disagree-
ment to the amendment of the Senate and
agree to the same with an amendment as
follows: In lieu of the matter ? proposed to
be inserted by the Senate amendment insert
the following: "That this Act may be cited
as the 'Mutual Security Act of 1959'.
"Statement of policy
"SEc. 2. Section 2 of the Mutual Security
Act of 1954, as amended, which is a statement
of policy, is amended to read as follows:
STAT
"'SEC. 2. STATEMENT OF PoucY.?(a) It is
the sense of the Congress that peace in the
world increasingly depends on wider recogni-
tion, both in principle and practice, of the
dignity and interdependence of men; and
that the survival of free institutions in the
United States can best be assured in a world-
wide atmosphere of expanded freedom.
" '(b) Through programs of assistance au-
thorized by this Act and its predecessors, the
United States has helped thwart ,Communist
intimidation in many countries of the world,
has helped Europe reeover from the wounds
of World War II? has supported defensive
military , preparations of nations alerted by
Communist aggression, and has soundly be-
gun to help peoples of economically under-
developed areas to develop their resources
and improve their living standards.
(c) Programs authorized by this Act
continue to serve the following principal
purposes:
" ' (1) The Congress recognizes the basic
identity of interest which exists between
the people of the United States and the
peoples of other lands who are striving to
establish and develop politically inde-
pendent and economically viable units, and
to produce more goods and services, and
to improve ways of living by methods which
reflect the popular will, and to realize as-
pirations for justice, for education, and for
dignity and respect as individual human
beings, and to establish responsible govern-
ments which will cooperate with other like-
minded governments. The Congress declares
it to be a primary objective and need of
the United States, and one consistent with
its tradition and ideals, to share these striv-
ings by providing assistance, with due re-
gard for our other obligations, to peoples
willing to work energetically toward these
ends.
" ' (2) The Congress recognizes that the
peace of the world and the security of the
United States are endangered so long as
international communism and the nations
it controls continue by threat of military
action, by the use of economic pressure,
and by internal subversion, or other means
to attempt to bring under their domination
peoples now free and independent and con-
tinue to deny the rights of freedom and self-
government to peoples and nations once
free but now subject to such domination.
The Congress declares it to be the policy of
the United States to continue so long as
such danger to the peace of the world and
to the security of the United States per-
sists, to make available to other free na-
tions and peoples upon request assistance
of such nature and in such amounts as the
United States deems advisable compatible
with its own stability, strength, and other
obligations, and as may be needed and ef-
fectively used by such free nations and peo-
ples to help them maintain their freedom.
"'(d) It is the sense of the Congress
that inasmuch as---L
" (1) the United States, through mutual
security programs, has made substantial
contributions to the economic recovery and
rehabilitation of the nations of Western Eu-
rope; and
"'(2) due in part to those programs, it
has been possible for such nations to achieve
complete economic recovery and to regain
their military strength; and
"'(3) certain other friendly nations of the
world remain in need of assistance in order
that they may defend themselves against ag-
gression and contribute to the security of
the free world;
those nations which have been assisted in
their recovery should, in the future, share
with the United States to a greater extent
the financial burden of providing aid to
those countries which are still in need of
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assistance of the type provided under this
Act.
"'(e) It is the sense of the Congress that
assistance provided under this Act shall be
administered so as th assist other peoples
in their efforts to achieve self-government or
independence under circumstances which
will enable them to assume an equal sta-
tion among the free nations of the world
and to fulfill their responsibilities for self-
government or independence. To this end,
assistance shall be rendered where appro-
priate and feasible in such a way as to pro-
mote the emergence of political units which
are economically viable, either alone- or in
cooperation with neighboring units.'
"CHAPTER I?MILITARY ASSISTANCE
"Military assistance
"SEc. 101. Chapthe I of the Mutual Security
Act of 1954, as amended, which relates to
military assistance, is amended as follows:
"(a) Amend section 103(a), which relates
to authorization, to read as follows:
"'(a) There is hereby authorized to be
appropriated to the President for use begin-
ning in the fiscal year 1960 to carry out the
purposes of this chapter not to exceed $1,-
400,000,000, which shall remain available un-
til expended. Programs of military assist-
ance subsequent to the fiscal year 1960 pro-
gram shall be budgeted so as to come into
competition for financial support with other
activities and programs of the Department
of Defense. There is hereby authorized to be
appropriated to the President for the fiscal
years 1961 and 1962 such sums as may be nec-
essary from time to time to carry out the
purposes of this chapter, which sums shall re-
main available until expended.'
"(b) Amend section 105 (b) , which relates
to conditions applicable to military assist-
ance, as follows:
"(1) Amend paragraph (4) to read as fol-
lows:
" '(4) Military equipment and materials
may be furnished to the other 'American Re-
publics only in furtherance of missions di-
rectly relating to the common defense of the
Western Hemisphere which are found by the
President to be important to the security of
the United States. The President annually
shall review such findings and shall deter-
mine whether military assistance is necessary.
Internal security requirements shall not, un-
less the President determines otherwise, be
the basis for military assistance programs to
American Republics. The aggregate amount
of funds which may be obligated or.reserved
during the fiscal year 1960 for furnishing
military assistance to American Republics
shall not exceed the aggregate amount of
funds obligated or reserved for such purpose
during the fiscal year 1959.'
"(2) Add the 'following new paragraph:
" '(5) To the extent feasible and con-
sistent with the other purposes of this chap-
ter, administrators of the military assistance
program shall encourage the use of foreign
military forces in underdeveloped countries
in the construction of public works and other
activities helpful to economic development.'
"CHAPTER II?ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
"Defense support
"SEc. 201. Section 131'(b) of the Mutual
Security Act of 1954, as amended, which re-
lates to defense support, is amended by strik-
ing out '1959' and 1810,000,000' and substitu-
ting '1960' and 1751,000,000', respectively.
"Utilization of counterpart funds
"SEc. 202. Clause (iii) of section I42(b) of
the Mutual Security Act of 1954, as amended,
which relates to utilization of funds in Spe-
cial Accounts, is amended by inserting imme-
diately before the period at the end thereof
the following: Provided further, That
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