AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ANTI-BOLSHEVIST BLOC OF NATIONS, INC., PROTESTS CONSULAR CONVENTION WITH THE SOVIET UNION

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January 27, 1966
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE 1193
mation, by requiring a clear statement of
the cost of credit and .the annual rate of
interest.
Our legislation protecting the public
from harmful drugs and cosmetics
should be strengthened. I shall propose
legislation for this purpose.
CONCLUSION
A few years ago, much was heard of
the "European economic miracle." To-
day, across the Atlantic and around the
world one hears once again of the "Amer-
ican economic miracle."
For the American economy, in the past
5 years, has demonstrated anew the con-
fident vitality, the internal dynamism,
and the enormous productivity which
had long been its hallmark. We had set-
tled for a while on what seemed a pla-
teau of affluence; now, once again, there
has been the strong thrust of progress-
but a newly steady and balanced prog-
ress.
We have again shown the world what
free men and a free economy can achieve.
The peoples struggling toward economic
development see with renewed interest
that free markets and free economic
choices can be a mighty engine of prog-
ress.
Moreover, there is new respect in the
world for an America concerned with
using its abundance to enhance the qual-
ity of human life: for a people who un-
dertake a war on poverty along with
the defense of freedom; who seek to re-
store their cities to greatness and to con-
serve the beauties of their landscape;
who are determined to break down a cen-
turies-old barrier of prejudice and injus-
tice; who are resolved to lift the quality
of education at every level; who are de-
termined to promote and reward excel-
lence in every endeavor; who have pro-
vided new health services and better so-
cial security for their older citizens; who
offer to share their abundance and tech-
nical skills with a needy world.
The new vigor and progress of America
can be a source of satisfaction. Yet we
cannot rest on past accomplishments.
Continuing problems challenge our de-
termination and our resourcefulness.
Perhaps our most serious economic
challenge in 1966 will be to preserve the
essential stability of costs and prices
which has contributed so significantly to
our balanced progress.
I do not know what additional burdens
of defense the American economy will be
asked to assume in 1966. Whatever they
are, they will be met, and they will be
small relative to the growth of our abun-
dance. But in an economy approaching
full use of its resources, the new require-
ments of Vietnam make our task of main-
taining price stability more difficult.
To insure against the risk of inflation-
ary pressures, I have asked Americans to
pay their taxes on a more nearly current
basis, and to postpone a scheduled tax
cut. If it should turn out that additional
insurance is needed, then I am convinced
that we should levy higher taxes rather
than accept inflation-which is the most
unjust and capricious form of taxation,
We know that we do not need to put our
growing economy into a straight jacket,
or to throw it into reverse. But the ex-
that will be needed to avoid inflationary
pressures will depend directly on the re-
straint and moderation exercised by
those who have power over wages and
prices.
I again ask every leader of labor and
every businessman who has price or wage
decisions to make in 1966 to remember
that his decisions affect not alone the
wages of his members or the returns of
his stockholders. Shortsighted pursuit
of short-run interests fails in the longer
run to advance the interests of either
labor or management. And it surely
does not advance the interests of the
Nation.
I am confident that the overwhelming
majority of private decisions in 1966 will
be sound and responsible-just as I am
determined that public decisions will be
fully responsible.
If they are, the American economic
miracle will remain in 1966 the single
most important force in the economic
progress of mankind.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON.
JANUARY 27, 1966,
PROPOSED REVISION OF POSTAL
RATES ON CERTAIN FOURTH-
CLASS MAIL
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem-
pore laid before the Senate a letter from
the Postmaster General, transmitting a
draft of proposed legislation to revise
postal rates on certain fourth-class mail,
and for other purposes, which, with the
accompanying papers, was referred to
the Committee on Post Office and Civil
Service.
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ANTI-
BOLSHEVIST BLOC OF NATIONS,
INC., PROTESTS CONSULAR CON-
WITH THE T
UNI
Mr. DI SEN. -Mr. President, I re-
ceived yesterday from the Baltic people
who have an association called the Amer-
ican Friends of the Anti-Bolshevist Bloc
of Nations, Inc., with headquarters in
Chicago, a memorial which contains
6,000 signatures as a protest against the
approval of the consular treaty with the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,
which is presently on the Executive Cal-
endar. I should like to have it filed un-
der petitions and memorials, but I should
like also to see it remain available, be-
cause there may be some Senators who
would wish to come and inspect it. This
organization went to a great deal of
work and difficulty to obtain these
names, and I should not like to see it
shuttled off into a storeroom somewhere,
where we cannot get at it.
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem-
pore. The memorial will be received and
appropriately referred, and will remain
at the desk, temporarily, for the inspec-
tion of Senators.
The memorial was referred to the
Committee on Foreign Relations.
Papers in the Executive Departments,
to which was referred for examination
and recommendation a list of records
transmitted to the Senate by the Archi-
vist of the United States, dated January
19, 1966, that appeared to have no per-
manent value or historical interest,
submitted a report thereon, pursuant to
law.
BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTION
INTRODUCED
Bills and a joint resolution were intro-
duced, read the first time and, by
unanimous consent, the second time,
and referred as follows:
By Mr. BURDICK:
S. 2837. A bill to amend chapter 15 of title
38, United States Code, so as to prevent the
loss of veteran pension benefits as the result
of increases in social security benefits au-
thorized by the Social Security Amendments
of 1965; to the Committee on Finance.
By Mr. LAUSCHE:
S.2838. A bill for the relief of Irene Sny-
der; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
By Mr. THURMOND:
S. 2839. A bill to amend the Agricultural
Act of 1949, as amended, to allow the plant-
ing of soybeans on acreage diverted from
cotton; to the Committee on Agriculture
and Forestry.
(See the remarks of Mr. THURMOND when
he introduced the above bill, which appear
under a separate heading.)
By Mr. McCLELLAN:
S. 2840. A bill to increase the amount au-
thorized to be appropriated for the establish-
ment and development of the Arkansas Post
National Memorial in the State of Arkansas;
to the Committee on Interior and Insular
Aff airs.
By Mr. MURPHY:
S. 2841. A bill for the relief of Jerssie T.
Ramirez; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
By Mr. DOUGLAS:
S. 2842. A bill to assist city demonstration
programs for rebuilding slum and blighted
areas and for providing the public facilities
and services necessary to improve the general
welfare of the people who live in these areas;
to the Committee on Banking and Currency.
(See th9 remarks of Mr. DOUGLAS when he
introduced the above bill, which appear un-
der a separate heading.)
By Mr. MONRONEY (for himself and
Mr. BREWSTER) (by request) :
S. 2843. A bill to revise postal rates on cer-
tain fourth-class mail, and for other pur-
poses; to the Committee on Post Office and
Civil Service.
(See the remarks of Mr. MONRONEY when
he introduced the above bill, which appear
under a separate heading.)
By Mr. RIBICOFF:
S.J. Res. 130. Joint resolution to provide for
the designation of the week of May 8 to May
14, 1966, as National School Safety Patrol
Week; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
(See the remarks of Mr. RIrncoFF when he
introduced the above joint resolution, which
appear tinder a separate heading.)
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
AUTHORIZATION OF PRINTING AS A
SENATE DOCUMENT AN INTERNAL
SECURITY SUBCOMMITTEE PAM-
PHLET ENTITLED "THE TECH-
NIQUES OF SOVIET PROPAGANDA"
Mr. DODD submitted the following
concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. 72) ;
which was referred to the Committee on
REPORT ON DISPOSITION OF
EXECUTIVE PAPERS
MONRONEY,
tent of the fiscal or rMlonetary ryes rain Yelect (~ evg eeelnian ion 0~
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD --SENATE January 27, 1966
Resolved by the Senate (the House of Rep-
resentatives concurring), That the pamphlet
entitled "The Techniques of Soviet Propa-
ganda," prepared for the use of the Subcom-
mittee on Internal Security of the Senate
Committee on the Judiciary, be printed as a
Senate Document.
SEC. 2, There shall be printed 20,000 addi-
tional copies of such Senate Document for
the use' of the Senate Committee on the
Judiciary.
ALLOWANCE OF SOYBEAN PRODUC-
TION ON ACREAGE DIVERTED
FROM COTTON
Mr. THURMOND. Mr. President, I
introduce a bill to amend the Agricul-
tural Act of 1949, as amended, to allow
the planting of soybeans on acreage di-
verted from cotton. I ask that the bill
be appropriately referred.
The most recent amendment to the
Agricultural Act of 1949, and the act to
which this proposal is, primarily directed,
is the Food and Agriculture Act of 1965.
Title IV, the cotton section, of the 1965
act contains a section specifically naming
the crops which can be produced on acre-
age diverted from cotton, upon the ap-
proval of the Secretary of Agriculture.
The bill which I am introducing today
would add soybeans to the list of crops
which may be approved by the Secretary
for production upon this diverted acre-
age.
The Department of Agriculture favored
including soybeans in the list when the
agriculture bill was being considered by
Congress last year. However, projec-
tions which were made at that time indi-
cating greatly increased production, both
on a yield per acre and an overall basis,
resulted in Congress' omitting soybeans
from the list.
The latest figures and projections
available now indicate the per acre and
overall production increase will be no-
where as great as was expected. In ad-
dition, consumption of soybeans, both
domestically and for export, has been
greater than was anticipated. The
market for soybeans is very strong and
the price is continuing to rise.
Mr. President, soybeans are an impor-
tant source of proteins and the export
of soybeans by farmers in our country is
a valuable contribution to the diet of
people abroad. Soybeans is also an im-
portant crop to the farmers in our coun-
try. The enactment of this proposal
would be of untold value, not only to the
cotton farmers of the United States who
have cooperated under the cotton bill
enacted last year, but also to the starving
nations of the world.
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem-
pore. The bill will be received and ap-
propriately referred.
The bill (S. 2839) to amend the Agri-
cultural Act of 1949, as amended, to al-
low the planting of soybeans on acreage
diverted from cotton, introduced by Mr.
TIiURMOND, was received, read twice by
its title, and referred to the Committee
on Agriculture and Forestry.
CITY DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS
Mr. DOUGLAS. Mr. President,'I in-
troduce, for appropriate reference, a bill
to assist city demonstration programs for
rebuilding slum and blighted areas and
for providing the public facilities and
services necessary to improve the general
welfare of the people who live in these
areas.
President Johnson in his message to
the Congress' of January 26 said that
this year of "1966 can be the year of re-
birth for American cities." He has pro-
posed a demonstration cities program
which, in his words, "will offer qualify-
ing cities of all sizes the promise of a
new life for their people." I am privi-
leged to introduce this legislation today.
Mr. President, I ask unanimous con-
sent that the text of the bill and a sec-
tion-by-section analysis be printed in
the RECORD.
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem-
pore. The bill will be received and ap-
propriately referred; and, without ob-
jection, the bill and section-by-section
analysis will be printed in the RECORD.
The bill (S. 2842) to assist city dem-
onstration programs for rebuilding slum
and blighted areas and for providing the
public facilities and services necessary to
improve the general welfare of the people
who live in these areas, introduced by
Mr. DOUGLAS, was received, read twice by
its title, referred to the Committee on
Banking and Currency, and ordered to be
printed in the RECORD, as follows:
S. 2842
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That this
Act may be cited as the "Demonstration
Cities Act of 1966".
FINDINGS AND DECLARATION OF PURPOSE
SEC. 2. The Congress hereby finds and de-
clares that improving the quality cf urban
life is the most critical domestic problem
facing the United States. The persistence of
widespread urban slums and blight; the con-
centration of persons of low income in older
urban areas, and the unmet needs for addi-
tional housing and community facilities ani
services arising from rapid expansion of our
urban population have resulted in a marked
deterioration in the environment of large
numbers of our people while the Nation as
a whole prospers.
The Congress further finds and declares
that cities, both large and small, do not have
adequate resources to deal effectively with
the critical problems facing them, and that
additional Federal assistance is essential to
enable cities to plan, develop, and conduct
programs to improve their physical environ-
ment, increase their supply of adequate
housing for low- and moderate-income peo-
ple, and provide educational and social serv-
ices vital to health and welfare.
It is the purpose of this Act to provide
additional financial and technical assistance
to enable cities, both large and small, to
plan, develop, and carry out programs to
rebuild or revitalize large slum and blighted
areas and expand and improve public pro-
grams and services available to the people
who live in such areas.
It is further the purpose of this Act to
provide the additional financial aid needed
to enable cities to participate more effectively
in existing Federal assistance programs.
It is further the purpose of this Act to
assist cities to coordinate activities aided
under existing Federal programs with other
public and private actions in order to pro-
vide the most effective and economical con-
centration of Federal, State, local, and pri-
vate efforts to improve the quality of urban
life.
BASIC AUTHORITY
SEC. 3. The Secretary of Housing and Ur-
ban Development (hereinafter referred to as
the "Secretary") is authorized, to make
grants and provide technical assistance, as
provided by this Act, to enable city demon-
stration agencies (as herein defined) to plan,
develop, and carry out comprehensive city
demonstration programs.
COMPREHENSIVE CITY DEMONSTRATIONS PRO-
GRAMS
SEC. 4. (a) A "comprehensive city dem-
onstration program" is a locally prepared
and scheduled program for rebuilding or re-
storing entire sections and neighborhoods
of slum and blighted areas through the con-
centrated and coordinated use of all avail-
able Federal aids and local private and govr
ernmental resources, including city-wic
aids and resources necessary to improve th
general welfare of the people living or work
ing in the areas.
(b) A comprehensive city demonstration.
program is eligible for assistance under sec-
tions 6, 8, and 9 only if the Secretary de-
termines that-
(1) the program is of sufficient magnitude
in both physical and social dimensions (i)
to remove or arrest blight and decay in en-
tire sections or neighborhoods, (ii) to pro-
vide a substantial increase in the supply
of standard housing of low and moderate
cost, (iii) to make marked progress in serv-
ing the poor and disadvantaged people liv-
ing in slum and blighted areas with a view
to reducing educational disadvantages, dis-
ease, and enforced idleness, and (iv) to make
a substantial impact on the sound develop-
ment of the entire city;
(2) the rebuilding or restoration of sec-
tions or neighboorhoods in accordance with
the program will contribute to a well-
balanced city with adequate public facilities
(including those needed for transportation,
education, and recreation), commercial fa-
cilities adequate to serve the residential
areas,. good access to industrial or other
centers of employment, and housing for all
income levels;
(3) the program provides for educational
and social services necessary to serve the poor
and disadvantaged in the area, widespread
citizen participation in the program, maxi-
mum opportunities for employing residents
of the area in all phases of the program, and
enlarged opportunity for work and training;
(4) adequate local resources are, or will be,
available for the completion of the program
as scheduled;
(5) administrative machinery is available
for carrying out the program on aconsoli-
dated and coordinated basis, the local gov-
erning body has approved the program, and
local agencies whose cooperation Is necessary
to the success of the program have indi-
cated their intent to furnish such coopera-
tion;
(6) there exists a relocation plan meeting
the requirements of the regulations referred
to in section 9;
(7) the program is designed to assure max-
imum opportunity in the choice of housing
accommodations by all citizens; and
(8) the program meets such additional re-
quirements as the Secretary may establish
to carry out the purposes of this Act.
(c) In making the determinations under
subsection (b), the Secretary shall give max-
imum consideration to whether-
(1) substantive local laws, regulations, and
other requirements are, or can be expected
to be, consistent with the objectives of the
program;
(2) the program will enhance neighbor-
hoods by applying a high standard of design
and. will, as appropriate, maintain distinc-
tive natural, historical, and cultural charac-
teristics;
(3) the program is designed to make max-
imum use of new and improved technology
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