FOGGY THINKING AT FOGGY BOTTOM

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August 17, 1965 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD--HOUSE
which receipts into the National Re-
sources Trust Fund would be allocated.
This is a job for the experts and one that
cannot be answered definitively at the
present time.
The specific use or uses to which this
fund would be put in later years would
be left up to the future authorizations
and appropriations of the Congress,
based upon and closely associated with
the several other programs already in
operation.
However, if enacted, I would assume
that the newly created Water Resources
Council in the Office of the President
would be helpful in presenting to the ap-
propriate committees of Congress the
order of priorities to which these funds
could be directed in the coming years.
The Water Resources Council, made up
of the Secretaries of Interior, Agricul-
ture, Army, HEW and the Chairman of
the Federal Power Commission has been
charged with the responsibility of study-
ing, on a continuing basis, the adequacy
of water supplies, as well as establishing
comprehensive regional and river proj-
ects. In addition, just last week the
President signed into law a bill author-
izing the Secretary of Interior to spend
$220 million during the next 6 fiscal
years for the saline water conversion
program. Moreover, the Congress pres-
ently has in conference major amend-
ments to the Water Pollution Control
Act of 1962 which would have a direct
relationship with any programs financed
from receipts held in a National Water
Resources Trust Fund.
In short, the bill I am introducing is
aimed at creating and earmarking rev-
enue for water resources development.
We are a nation with the technological
ability to place a man on the moon with-
in the next few years. There can be no
doubt that we have the technological
ability to solve our Nation's water prob-
lems. A far more bedeviling problem for
the Congress, however, will be to find the
source of revenue without which all of
the proposed solutions will remain as
little more than dusty blueprints. My
bill is directed to this end.
FOGGY THINKING AT FOGGY
BOTTOM
(Mr. HARSHA (at the request of Mr.
WATSON) was granted permission to ex-
tend his remarks at this point in the
RECORD and to include extraneous mat-
ter.)
Mr. HARSHA. Mr. Speaker, I am
sure many of the Members are not aware
that a consular convention between the
United States and Russia was signed at
Moscow on June 1, 1965, providing for
the regulation of the consular affairs of
each country in the territory of the oth-
er and further providing for complete
immunity from prosecution for all crim-
inal violations by employees and Con-
sular officials. Unfortunately, on rec-
ommendation of the State Department
and Secretary of State Rusk, the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations has
recommended that the Senate give its
advice and consent. As yet, the Senate
has not acted on this recommendation
and I take this opportunity to call this
fact to the attention of the House, urging
that they in turn alert their constituents
so that the constituents may voice their
objections to the Senate-for in this way,
and this way only-can the ratification
of this treaty be prohibited.
This consular convention treaty with
the Soviet Union is one of the most dan-
gerous and preposterous mistakes that
has yet been advocated by the State De-
partment. This is another dangerous
error in a long list of miscalculations of
Russian intentions by the State Depart-
ment, and only an aroused American
public can stop Senate ratification of
this treaty. The treaty signed in :1964
by Russia would allow Russia and other
Communist nations to expand consular
agencies in the United States and to staff
them with intelligence agents and other
operatives who would be immune from
prosecution in the United States for es-
pionage or other criminal violations.
This convention is the first to which the
United States/has been a party which
provided for unlimited exemption from
criminal jurisdiction for consular :per-
sonnel, and provides the basis for a na-
tionwide Communist spy and subversion
ring with protection from prosecution.
Mr. Speaker, J. Edgar Hoover has
warned that such an agreement was a
"cherished goal of Soviet intelligence
services." He said:
None but the most naive and totally mis-
informed would doubt but that the Com-
munists will take full advantage of such a
treaty to expand their espionage and sub-
version activities in this country under the
cloak of protection provided by this treaty.
Mr. Speaker, this is a clear indication
of the foggy thinking at Foggy Bottom
and is a prime example of why the
American public has little faith in the
activities of our State Department.
AN APPROACH TO THE PROBLEM OF
THE LOS ANGELES RIOTS
(Mr. ROOSEVELT asked and was
given permission to address the House
for 1 minute.)
Mr. ROOSEVELT. Mr. Speaker, the
situation which has existed in Los
Angeles these past few days has dis-
tressed and saddened us all, whether
representing a congressional district in
or near the so-called Watts area, as I
do, or anywhere in the United States.
Distressed and saddened are scarcely
adequate to describe my own feelings,
and frankly, I must confess I am still
somewhat numb at the events I wit-
nessed in Los Angeles last weekend.
Last night on ABC-TV, on the "Night
Life" program, Les Crane talked by tele-
phone with Dick Gregory, the noted
comedian. Mr. Gregory, you may recall,
was at'the scene of the rioting, and was
wounded a few nights ago. His remarks,
I think, merit some attention.
Mr. Gregory first compared the situa-
tion to a hurricane-if you were not
there, you just could not fully appreci-
ate it, and in this I wholly concur. He
further commented that if such an out-
break occurred in a foreign land, we
would know precisely how to control and
handle the matter. And then he re-
called that when Russia put up the first
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Sputnik, we lost no time in accepting
the challenge of the space race, and im-
mediately hired, with little thought for
cost, the very best brainpower and
technicians available to speed our efforts
toward putting a man on the moon.
Mr. Gregory suggested that very same
effort and disregard for expense be di-
rected toward solving the question of
why these riots occurred in Los Angeles,
and toward correcting the reasons when
they are determined. I do not pretend to
know all the answers right now. But I
do believe Mr. Gregory's suggestion
merits some attention by the Congress,
and I am going to give some further
thought and study to this idea with a
view to making some pertinent recom-
mendations in this area.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under
previous order of the House, the gentle-
man from California [Mr. ROOSEVELT]
is recognized for 1 hour.
Mr. ROOSEVELT. Mr. Speaker, if it
is proper to do so, may I ask unanimous
consent that the gentleman from Louisi-
ana who has a special order to address
the House today be recognized at this
time.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without
objection, it is so ordered.
There was no objection.
FOURTH ANNIVERSARY OF ALLI-
ANCE FOR PROGRESS
The SPEAKER pro; tempore. Under
previous order of the House, the gentle-
man from Louisiana [Mr. BOGGS] is rec-
ognized for 1 hour.
(Mr. BOGGS asked and was given per-
mission to revise and extend his re-
marks.)
Mr. BOGGS. Mr. Speaker, the late
President Kennedy in early 1961 gave
voice to the most ambitious and most no-
ble program of regional development
ever undertaken in the Western Hemi-
sphere. It was on March 13, 1961, to the
assembled Ambassadors of all the Ameri-
can nations that President Kennedy
enunciated a bold and far reaching-and
at the same time, hardheaded-social
and economic program by which the peo-
ples of this hemisphere could realize
the benefits of their rising expectation.
Five months later representatives of the
Organization of American States signed
the Charter of Punta del Este, and the
Alliance for Progress was formally
launched.
It is this fourth anniversary of the
launching of the Alliance for Progress
which we commend today. President
Kennedy's sweeping vision to strengthen
hemispheric unity and provide the peo-
ples of Latin America, through self-help,
with the opportunity to raise their living
standards, has been carried forward with
energy and imagination by President
Johnson and the progressive leaders,
both public and private, of Latin Amer-
ica.
There are those who say, after 4 years
of the Alliance, that the high flown words
which launched this program were too
ambitious, too visionary, and that the
advances which could possibly be
achieved in the 1960's would fall far short
of the proposed goals. But clear call to
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action, galvanized by noble words, was
needed to initiate concrete beginnings
for the Alliance. The fact is that the
Alliance program has realized progress
in its first 4 years of life; and I am con-
fident that in the next 4 years, we will
see an even greater measure of advances.
As my fellow colleagues know, the Alli-
ance for Progress is not a giveaway pro-
gram-it asks much of the leaders and
the peoples of the American nations to
the south. It demands of them social
and economic sacrifices in the form of
investment, tax reform, land reform,
price stabilization, and other areas-and
I am pleased to say, Mr. Speaker, the
start of these necessary reforms is fully
discernible on this fourth anniversary.
We must be prepared for this massive
joint effort to continue, not just through
the sixties because this decade will wit-
ness only the first step in a long journey,
but rather for many decades beyond. We
must be prepared for a sustained effort
in order to overcome the deprivations of
500 years of history.
Particularly in this hemisphere, where
there is great disparity between the liv-
ing standards of the people of the United
States and those of the other American
nations, this unfulfilled task presents us
with a tremendous challenge. The ob-
stacles are herculean, but so is our col-
lective will, our ingenuity, our energy,
our determination-of this, I am confi-
dent. Progress we are making, and we
shall continue to do so.
I am convinced that the realization of
the goals of the alliance is the best ave-
nue to bring economic and political sta-
bility to all of the American countries,
and to stem the efforts of communism to
seize control of more nations in our
hemisphere, and subjugate their peoples.
Communism will gain no more foothold
in this hemisphere, if we maintain our
sustained drive and our unity of purpose.
The Alliance offers the best means for
the peoples of Latin America to attain,
by peaceful evolution, their rising ex-
pectations.
At this point, Mr, Speaker, I should
like to insert in the RECORD, a fine edi-
torial in the Washington Post of August
17, 1965, commending the progress made
by the Alliance program in its first 4
years of operation, The editorial fol-
lows:
THE ALIANZA'S FOURTH
Four years ago today, 19 Latin American
countries and the United States signed the
Charter of Punta del Este which created the
Alliance for Progress. It is an appropriate
day for taking stock of what has been ac-
complished during those 4 years.
The birth of the Alliance marked an his-
toric turning point in U.S.. policy toward
Latin America. Prior to Punta del Este, that
policy was guided by the slogan of "trade,
not aid"; it was.a policy that relied on large-
scale private. investment and the growth of
international trade to supply the vital cat-
alyst for sustained economic growth. But
that policy was far too passive for a world
torn by political instability and ferious com-
petition between rival ideologies. An active
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It can be charged, and with. some. justice,
that the rhetoric employed in launching the
Alianza gave rise to expectations that could
not be reasonably fulfilled; that it had been
difficult to push programs through the
bureaucratic thicket in Washington; that the
individual Latin American countries have
been more interested in extracting the maxi-
mum volume of aid from this country than
in drawing up sound plans or coordinating
their efforts with other recipient countries.
These and other charges are not without
substance, but they should riot be permitted
to obscure the very real accomplishments of
the Alianza. At $12 billion, the Latin Amer-
ican investment in economic and social de-
velopment is running 50 percent above the
target level established by the Charter.
U.S. commitments for economic assistance
have reached $4.4 billion. There has been
some progress-although it is Insufficient-
in achieving monetary and fiscal reform in
Latin America. And perhaps most impor-
tant, the machinery has been established for
a continuing program of economic assistance
and cooperation.
What of the future? The Inter-American
Committee on the Alliance, a ministerial
group known as CIAP, has forwarded it num-
ber of valuable recommendations for change
to President Johnson. Most of them are un-
exceptionable. U.S. aid to Latin Amer-
ica should be untied, and as it first
step, the recipient countries might be per-
mitted to make purchases in Latin America,
Canada or Japan, transactions not likely to
weaken markedly this country's balance-of-
payments position. Where they have any
likelihood of success, this country should
become a party to additional commodity
agreements aimed at stabilizing the prices of
the tropical produce on which Latin America,
heavily depends for foreign exchange. Land
reform and other programs designed to
modernize rural life in Latin America are
sorely needed.
The proposal for preferential tariffs, how-
ever circumscribed, is thoroughly objection-
able. If this country, in violation of the
principles of nondiscrimination, were to
grant the Latin American countries prefer-
ential tariffs, it would be productive oP little
good. Imports of cotton textiles, the one
class of products for which Latin America
has a clear advantage, are restricted by quo-
tas. The argument that Latin America
must have U.S. tariff preferences because the
Europeans discriminate against her in favor
of their former African dependencies is a
non sequitur. Latin American commodities
are hardly affected by U.S. tariffs, and
granting her preferences would do nothing
to improve access to the European markets.
In fact it might slam the door even tighter.
There is a story which is commended to
all those who are so impatient or naive as to
believe that there is an express train tc rapid
economic progress in Latin America. An
admiring American guest asked his titled
British host to tell him the secret of his
magnificent lawns. "It's all very simple,"
replied his Lordship. "You must prepare
the ground with great care, choose the right
sort of seed and wait a hundred years."
It will not require a century to uncover
the formula for sustained economic growth
in Latin America, but we ought to be pre-
pared for a long haul, one in which progress
is reckoned in decades, not in months or
years. And over that longer haul the
Alianza para el Progreso must be constantly-_
strengthened by the infusions of fresh talent
and new ideas.
p
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e signe
o stimulate economic One of the most heartening aspects of
growth in Latin America through a working the progress being made by the Alliance
partnership of the 20 governments was the
only answer, is the vital role which the private sector
After 4 years of experience, it is not at all is playing in advancing this extensive
difficult for a critic to point out the cracks program, This is true, Mr. Speaker, both
and fissures in the house that has been built, in our country and in the nations of
August ' 17, 1965
Latin America. Specifically, the newly
organized Business Council for Latin
America is composed of leading business-
men, representing major American com-
panies and industries with extensive
operations in Latin America. These
business leaders in our country are join-
ing with private enterprise leaders in the
other American nations in actively sup-
porting many projects under the Alliance
program. These Business Council mem-
bers, who are directed by the able Mr.
David Rockefeller, of the Chase Man-
hattan Bank, also are working with the
Agency for International Development
and other Government agencies-to help
make the Alliance program a success.
The council is coordinating the views of
U.S. business and their members partic-
ipation in the Alliance.
Father, AID's part in encouraging
private participation in the Alliance con-
tinues to achieve headway through the
partners of the Alliance program. AID.
established this program last year, so
that State and local Chambers of Com-
merce, civic clubs, unions, business and
professional groups, schools and individ-
uals, can work directly with groups of
people in Latin America.
Mr. Speaker, a fine example of direct
participation in the Alliance is taking
place in my own home city of New
Orleans, La., the gateway to the Amer-
icas. I refer to the training seminars
,being provided at the Inter-American
Center of Loyola University for some 150
young, potential leaders from the Re-
publics of Central America. The univer-
sity signed a contract with aid to pro-
vide these 6-week training seminars at
its Inter-American Center, under the
able direction and guidance of Father
Louis Twomey, S.J., and his staff.
Loyola has been assisted in offering these
seminars by some of the faculty and
staff of Tulane University; of Louisiana
State University; and of Dillard and
Xavier Universities.
In these seminars, the young leaders
of Central America consider problems
of social, economic, and political devel-
opment; and of techniques to solve them
through group action and effective lead-
ership. These potential Central Amer-
ican leaders come from credit unions
and cooperatives, rural communities;
normal schools ; universities, and polit-
ical and business groups-in short, all
sectors of society in Central America.
This contract between a university in
our country and AID was the first of its
kind in our Government's efforts to pro-
vide leadership training for potential
leaders in the devloping nations of Latin
America.
For more than 2 decades, Mr. Speaker,
a great organization in my city has been
the prime mover in fostering good will,
trade and private investment between
the nations of Latin America, and New
Orleans, the State of Louisiana and the
lower Mississippi Valley. This is In-
ternational House, under the guidance
today of Mr. Paul Fabry as managing
director, and a blue-ribbon group of of-
ficers from business and industry in the
New Orleans area. Through its annual
Pan-American seminar, which brings to-
gether leading editors from our country
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