THE CASE AGAINST CASTRO

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Approved For Release 2004/10/12 : CIA-RDP64B00346R000200160022-3 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - APPENDIX A3509 the Associated Press with the heading "ADA Says Red China Should Be Rec- ognized." Mr. Speaker, the Americans for Democratic Action are up to their old tricks of advocating recognition by the United States of Red China as well as admission to the United Nations. Many of the people associated with the ADA formed the policies years ago that caused the loss of free China behind the Iron Curtain of communism, as well as the loss of many other countries. Cer- ainly their policies at that time were ,. 'wrong and the policies they advocate to- day are just as bad and as detrimental to the interest of the United States and the free world: ADA SAYS RED CHINA SHOOED BE RECOGNIZED (By the Associated Press) Americans for Democratic Action urges a start toward diplomatic recognition of Red China "and its accreditation to the United Nations as the government of China." This should not be done, the ADA said, "as gestures of moral approval of past actions but as a means of establishing the normal channels of international communication." The ADA's views on China were in a reso- lution adopted yesterday before its 14th an- nual convention adjourned. PROVISIONS FOR FORMOSA Recognition of the Peiping regime and its accreditation to the United Nations, the ADA said, "would increase our access to informa- tion on Chinese affairs and the possibility of affecting Chinese foreign policy" Admitting Red China to the United Na- tions, the ADA said, "should be linked to the condition that the Inhabitants of For- mosa shall themselves democratically decide whether they shall be admitted to the United Nations as an independent nation or that they shall rejoin mainland China." The Chinese seat at the United Nations now is held by representatives of the Chi- nese Nationalist Government, which is based on Formosa. On domestic matters, ADA, a self-de- scribed liberal organization, said the Ken- nedy administration was "drifting into the worst mistakes of the Eisenhower years." The ADA defined them as "improvisations for segments of full employment and eco- nomic growth." ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS The resolution recommended a number of long-range objectives, Including: Expanded support for neglected segments of the economy, notably housing, urban re- development, water conservation, depressed areas and constantly expanding consumer purchasing power for a rising standard of living. The convention reelected Samuel H. Beer, a Harvard professor, as chairman; Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt as honorary chair- man; Richard C. Sachs, New York, treasurer, and Roy Bennett, New York, assistant treas- urer. Paul Seabury, a University of Cali- fornia professor, was elected chairman of the executive committee. EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. WILLIAM PROXMIRE OF WISCONSIN IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES Thursday, May 18, 1961 Mr. PROXMIRE. Mr. President, Ar- thur Krock writes in the New York Times this morning an article that to me represents a devastating reply to those who contend that this country had not given Cuban Dictator Castro fair treatment. Frankly, a surprising number of my own constituents persist in arguing with me that we have been too harsh and peremptory in our treatment of Castro. Because this badly mistaken view may be shared by many Americans, I ask unanimous consent that the column in today's New York Times, entitled "The Lively Issue of Castro's Justifications," be printed in the Appendix of the RECORD. There being no objection, the article was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows: THE LIVELY ISSUE OF CASTRO'S JUSTIFICATIONS (By Arthur Krock) WASHINGTON, May 17-Two conclusions reached by this department after an exam- ination of the origins of the currently hos- tile United States-Castro relations, and pub- lished here under date of May 10, have evoked an unusual number of remarkably uniform dissents from readers. These con- clusions were: 1. The factual weakness of an advertise- ment in this newspaper, signed by a number of Harvard professors among other distin- guished citizens, which justified Castro's anti-Americanism on the ground that for "at least a year" U.S. policy has been "We must crush Castro," is that it began the chapter of United States-Castro relations in the middle. 2. Castro's unfriendly and illegal acts, and his anti-American Incitements of the Cuban population, long preceded the date chosen in this advertisement to demonstrate that the burden of blame is on his government. In rebuttal of these conclusions the let- terwriters generally contended that the United States refused a request from Castro to be invited for talks; rebuffed and snubbed him when he came here in February 1959, to speak to the American Society of News- paper Editors; and refused his offer at that time and thereafter to negotiate the differ- ences between his regime and the Govern- ment of the United States. But the open record is the following: 1. Castro never requested an official In- vitation. When, on his own volition, he came unofficially to Washington, in April 1959, Secretary of State Herter gave him a luncheon at which no mention of any de- sired negotiation was made by the Cuban officials present; and, in the absence of Pres- ident Eisenhower, the Premier was received by Vice President Nixon. 2. On February 22, 1960, Castro did pro- pose-but for the first time-to negotiate with the United States on compensation to American citizens for their property in Cuba that he expropriated soon after his acces- sion to power. However, his conditions were that during the negotiation the United States should bind both the Executive and Congress to refrain from any action which Cuba would consider to affect its interests, while he remained free to negotiate or pro- crastinate as he chose--conditions obviously unacceptable and, so far as Congress was concerned, constitutionally impossible. 3. From the time Castro assumed power until May 17, 1960, the United States made 9 formal and 16 informal offers to negotiate all differences with Cuba. The first was by Ambassador Bonsai in March 1959. In each note and statement the United States ex- pressed sympathy with the social and eco- nomic objectives of the Cuban agrarian re- form law under which the expropriation was made. HERTER'S INDICTMENT 4. At the San Jose, Costa Rica, conference, August 1960, Cuban Foreign Minister Roa charged that this Government had con- sistently refused Castro's offers of negotia- tion. Secretary Herter made and docu- mented this reply: That continuing attacks on the United States by the Castro regime began in January 1959 before the acts it al- leges were U.S. aggression. He said also that from this date forward political assaults on the U.S. Government, "and scurrilous at- tempts to besmirch the characters of its leaders, have nevertheless been consistent and made with increased savagery." The circumstances that the charges in Castro's justification that this open record refutes are being made by citizens of such quality is strange, disturbing, and mysteri- ous. But it is true, as pointed out in some of the letters, that Castro also can cite grievances prior to the preinvasion program- ing. For example, the United States did not completely bar arms to dictator Batista until March 14, 1958; sent a marine guard for the Guantanamo pumping station 6 miles into Cuba on July 28, 1958; and con- cluded a 20-year atomic energy aid agree- ment with Batista September 9, 1958. The silly paradox, however, is that all this time U.S. businessmen in Cuba were know- ingly financing Castro's revolution by pay- ing their taxes at stations where he could seize them. Prior to that, the taxes on Cuban properties owned by Americans were always sent to Havana, the central collec- tion office, until the other arrangement was deliberately made for the financing of Castro. And meanwhile the State Department was totally ignoring successive warnings from two Ambassadors that the interest of Inter- national communism would be served in Cuba by Castro's success. The John Birch Society-1 EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. JOHN H. ROUSSELOT OF CALIFORNIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, May 18, 1961 Mr. ROUSSELOT. Mr. Speaker, a leading newspaper published in Whit- tier, Calif., a city located in my district, has printed a series of five objectively written articles concerning the John Birch Society. This newspaper, the Daily News, is to be commended for bas- ing the articles on facts which many news media have ignored in reporting on the society. Under unanimous consent I include the first three articles of the series in the Appendix of the RECORD: [From the Daily News, Whittier, Calif., Apr. 26, 1961] How To TELL A COMMIE FRONT (First of a series) The John Birch Society may be a move- ment aimed at strengthening Americanism and weakening communism, but it is mys- terious and controversial, too. Mysterious although its meetings are pub- lic and its membership open to any good American who will subscribe to its beliefs. Controversial although Its business is Americanism. It has been subjected to criticism by po- litical officeholders, newspaper editors, church pastors, and the man on the street. There has been clamoring for an investiga- tion of its purpose and organization and its founder, Robert Welch. Approved For Release 2004/10/12 : CIA-RDP64B00346R000200160022-3 A3510 Approved For Release 2004/10/12 : CIA-RDP64B00346R000200160022-3 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - APPENDIX IGNORANCE OR MISUNDERSTANDING Public ignorance or, at least, misunder- standing may be the cause of accusations that have run the gamut from dictatorship to Klan. But the Birch Society is neither dictatorial nor a form of the infamous Ku Klux Klan, according to Whittier chapter leaders. Five of the leaders have compiled a five- part series of articles explaining the aims and objects of the society. The series has been jointly written by Augustine Cervantes, of South Whittier; Joseph Coffman, of La Habra; Raye King, V. C. Rainier, and Joseph Sullivan, all of Whittier. The first article in the series follows: HOW TO TELL ONE J. Edgar Hoover tells us in his book, "Masters of Deceit," that a Communist-front organization can be detected by applying the following test: 1. Does the organization espouse the cause of Soviet Russia? Does it shift when the party line shifts? 2. Does the organization feature as speak- ers at its meetings known Communists or sympathizers? 8. Does the organization sponsor causes, campaigns, literature, petitions, or other ac- tivittes sponsored by the party or other front organizations? 4. Is the organization used as a sounding board by, or is it endorsed by Communist- controlled labor unions? 5. Does its literature follow the Commu- nist line or is it printed by the Communist ;press? 6. Does the organization receive consis- tent favorable mention in Communist publications? 7. Does the organization represent itself to be nonpartisan yet engage in political activities and consistently advocate causes favored by the Communists? Does it de- nounce both Fascists and Communists? 8. Does the organization denounce Amer- Scan foreign policy while always lauding Soviet policy? 9. Does the organization utilize Commu- nist doubletalk by referring to Soviet dom- jnated countries as democracies, complaining that the United States is imperialistic and constantly denouncing monopoly capital? 10. Have outstanding leaders in public life openly renounced affiliation with the or- ganization? ATTRACT OR DENOUNCE? 1 11. Does the organization, if espousing lib- eral, progressive causes, attract well-known honest, patriotic liberals or does it denounce Well known liberals? 12. Does the organization consistently con- sider matters not directly related to Its avowed purposes and objectives? Let us assume that the average apathetic b',ut patriotic citizen had just read the above 12 items and decided to apply these meas- ures to the organizations in his circles of acquaintanceship. Would he be able to do so effectively? The answer is obvious. He would need to become trained to apply the above measures intelligently. This then re- quires a thorough education and background In dialectical materialistic communism. How does one receive this type of education so necessary in our defense against internal subversion? DIALECTIC MATERIALISM There are a number of organizations usu- ally local in nature which to a pretty good job of teaching dialectic materialism, How- evlor, December 1958 Robert Welch recognized the need for a national organization to train anid recruit those already trained into an effective coordinated group. This resulted in ',the cohception of the John Birch Society. Vu until the John Birch Society was or- ga#Iized, well-informed and well-trained pa- triots more or less worked as individuals or in uncoordinated groups and as such did not worry the Communists except as a nui- sance. However, after the origin of the John Birch Society, those thousands of concerned people recognizing their former inadequacy in fighting communism joined the society in such numbers that the Communist Party became alarmed and decided to apply their proven forces against them. It was recog- nized that at the present rate of growth the John Birch Society could attain almost un- limited power to cope with them and thus destroy 40 years of labor. It should be un- derstood that the present status of Commu- nist power in the United States had, except for a brief but fatal effort by Senator Joseph McCarthy, been reached through almost con- tinuous default on the part of the American people [From the Daily News, Whittier, Calif., Apr. 27, 1961] CONCERNED SHOULD BECOME INFORMED (This is the second of a five-part series on the John Birch Society. The articles were jointly written by Augustine Cervantes, Jo- seph Coffman, Raye King, V. C. Ramler, and Joseph Sullivan, all members of the Whittier chapter of the society.-Editor.) The John Birch Society has tabulated lit- erally hundreds of documented books, tape recordings and reports which it makes avail- able to members and nonmembers alike which will make informed people out of concerned people. Communists are not alarmed about con- cerned people; however, they recognize that informed people are dangerous because they can intelligently inform others. It is the greatest fear of the Communist Party in the United States that despite their tremendous influence in our Government and over all our means of mass communi- cation, the American people will wake up too soon to what has really been happening right under their very noses. Communism operates for the most part in this country by utilizing front organization and underground activities. COMMON ORIGIN Communist-front organizations are char- acterized by their common origin, the rigid conformity of these organizations to the Communist pattern, their interlocking per- sonnel and their methods generally used to deceive the American public. Being part of a conspiratorial movement their essence is deceptive. The tactics of these fronts is to push as far as possible constitutional privileges by enlisting through this deception the coop- eration of as great a segment of the public as can be deceived. When activities of the Communists reach the realm of unconstitutional endeavor then the underground members take over. These activities go -so far as to place concealed members In government, education, and industry. PROPER TRAINING Only organizations with members who have been properly trained can cope with the pressures brought to bear between these front organizations and those concealed underground. By watching the front groups and their unconcealed programs it is simple logic to connect those places in government, education, and industry where the party line expounded by the front groups receives the greatest reception. It should be pointed out here that in all localities where the Birch Society is active it is well established in short order by its members and other freedom groups utiliz- ing the above reasoning and J. Edgar Hoover's 12 rules for identifying fronts, where the Communist danger points that need to bear watching are. However, none of these people or organi- zations are ever labeled Communist by the May 18 society or its members. Instead, a system of defenss is set up to reduce to zero the effectiveness of the Communist activity. This is accomplished without fanfare or publicity, thus leaving the subversive group frustrated but aware of who was respon- sible. Reports of facts as to subversive ac- tivities observed are reported to national headquarters where once assembled can point to future, trends in the fight. [From the Daily News, Whittier, Calif., Apr. 29, 19611 SOVLIST PROPAGANDA TECHNIQUE STUDIED (This is the third article of a five-part se- ries on the John Birch Society written by Rave King, V. C. Rainier and Joseph Sullivan, all leaders of the Whittier chapter; August- fine Cervantes,. South Whittier chapter lead- er; and Joseph Coffman, La Habra chapter leader.) Everyone who reads the newspapers or magazines, watches television or listens to the radio is aware of the recent great volume of adverse publicity spewing forth against the John B.xch Society and its founder Rob- ert Welch. This is a special type of treatment re- served by the Communist conspiracy for spe- cial people or groups that have been really effective and which they cannot directly in- filtrate or subvert. An informative pamphlet printed in the U.S. Goverr..ment Printing Office, Washing- ton, D.C., on instructions from the 86th Congress, 2d session, entitled "The Tech- nique of Soviet Propaganda" should be read by every man and woman in the United States. This report is an official document of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, The purpose of the report was relative to the administration of the Internal Security Act and other :internal security laws. PRESS INVADED Quoting from page 6 (a) of the Judiciary Committee report as follows: "There are in the world few organs of the press, even when bourgeois, in which the Soviet apparatus has no intelligence. The main task o;' auxiliaries In the press is to manipulate the editor, or if that is not feas- ible, the reporters, without the editor's knowledge. General notions like 'This paper is conservative' or 'Catholic' are not at all sufficient any longer to recognize the policy it follows. toward Moscow. Sometimes the managers themselves are unaware that their newspaper is ' permeated.' " ',. IROPAGANDA PURPOSE Quoting further (from p. 14) of the Sen- ate Judiciary Committee report under the heading "Breaking Anti-Communists: Slan- der, Intimidation, Kidnaping, Murder.": "An important task of Soviet propaganda is not only to circumvent the gullible, but also to reduce those who clearly realize the danger and zealously proclaim it to a state of powerlessness. Against these people are launched campaigns limitless in intensity as in. Ignominy. The Communists attempt to make lepers of them, to develop veritable re- flexes in public opinion so that a halo of hatred will be instinctively associated with their- name. "Communist and crypto-Communist appa- ratus put all their ammunition to use in this task and shrink from neither slander nor provocation, forgery, nor blackmail. Here auxiliaries' play a leading role: that of scan- dalmongers. "Sometimes the Soviet apparatus will de- nounce an anti-Communist as an under- ground Communist. Sometimes they will lead the police to believe that he is a terror- ist or a traificksr. Slander against the anti- Communist; wr.ter Victor Serge reached such a point that even well-disposed police serv- ices no longer knew what to think." Approved For Release 2004/10/12 : CIA-RDP64B00346R0002001:60022-3 Approved For Release 2004/10/12 : CIA-RDP64B00346R000200160022-3 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE May 18 lived for centuries before as inhabitants of the same territory in Austria-Hun- gary. One visible sign of these efforts is the awarding of the Charles Prize by the descent, the president of the Slovak League of America, Mr. Philip A. Hrobak, which takes place on Saturday, May 20, 1961. The work which the Sudeten Germans have done is a great one. They have gathered material on the work of inter- national communism. They have sup- plied this material to Members of Con- gress who have made several CONGRES- SIONAL RECORD insertions about the sys- tem of the Communist state security in the East, the system of agent-provoca- teurs, and so forth. On May 5, 1957, for example, the Chicago Tribune and the Detroit Free Press reported about a speech which Congressman Timothy P. Sheehan made in the House of Repre- sentatives based on the Sudeten German material. On May 14, 1958, Congress- man Sheehan made a second speech about communism based on the Sudeten German material again. If there will be more attention on the part of American statesmen opposing communism, the German expellees can constitute a great share in this anti- Communist fight for preservation and restoration of freedom. They are our best allies. They are united with us by the common aims and the common in- telligent understanding of the menace threatening us. We have followed until now, policies which have been quite contrary. Cer- tain agencies, especially private ones, believed that they should support and cooperate not with the German ex- pellees, not with the conservative Czechs, Poles, Slovaks, Hungarians, and other exiles, but on the contrary, with the leftwing exiles, the former national front men. This policy has clearly failed in the past and present. It failed in the same way as other support for Com- munists and pro-Communists, the help to Tito and Gomulka, the initial sup- port for Castro. The support for left- wingers among the exiles has been paral- lel to the support for Tito and Gomulka. In this way, communism cannot be weakened, but strengthened. So it has been in the past. Since the agreements of Yalta and Potsdam, through the delivery of Central Europe, of the German rocket scientists and skilled workers to the Reds, we have followed the policy which has proven disastrous. Today, it is high time to realize where our real friends are. We must give up the idea that we can win our enemies by handing over the property of our friends. We must stop believing that the best policy against communism is helping the Communists and the pro- Communists. The Sudeten German expellees are allies of Conservative anti-Communist men in the free world. They are the hope for the Czechs, Slovaks, Hungar- ians and all others, that these nations once again will be free. I hope that the Sudeten German Day 1961 will be a full success and the start of an effective work for the freedom in Eastern Europe and the #hole world. CL 3A AND CONTAINMENT and to include extraneous matter.) Mr. BECKER. Mr. Speaker, I have written a report for the news media in my district on the policy of containment of communism. I have been opposed to this policy for many years and in this article the situation in Cuba is one of the most dangerous in our history. Clos- ing our eyes and thinking we can con- tain communism to the island of Cuba is ridiculous, as explained below: CUBA AND CONTAINMENT You can drive 90 miles in less than 2 hours and fly it in half an hour. By boat, it takes just a few hours. Philadelphia is more than 90 miles from Long Island. Fisher's Island, N.Y., is about 90 miles from Lynbrook. Ninety miles is an infinites- imal distance these days. Cuba is 90 miles from the United States. - Less than 90 miles away from our shores, a bearded psychopath Is, day by day, en- trenching the evil of communism in our own hemisphere-closer to our country than many parts of our own State. Castro isn't a fad with the Cuban peo- ple. He isn't just something we as a country can close our eyes to and hope that when we open them he will have disappeared. He represents the essence of an evil, unscrupu- lous philosophy that doesn't play by gentle- men's rules. He is a cancer-his beliefs will spread like a cancer until, if we don't recognize the danger signs, it will be too late. He sits on that Caribbean island while we sit on our decisions. He Is not going to wait for us to make up our minds about what to do with him. Every day he spins the web of absolute power a little tighter, a little more difficult to break. Every day that we delay action is another day for him to build his strength and entrench his position. We have finally realized that he isn't just leaning toward communism-that he is and always has been a Communist and that we have permitted him to establish the first Communist country in the hemisphere. We have, just a few weeks ago, lost the first move to eradicate this menace. Now it seems that we are going to revert to an old standby measure which has never worked in the past and which will not work now- the policy of containment. This is the State Department theory that Implies that the country itself (in this case, Cuba) is definitely a danger, but that if we just make sure that the country's influence does not spread beyond its borders, it will eventually cease to be a danger-or the even less realistic hope that the tyrannized people themselves will one day revolt. This theory is just about as ridiculous as the medieval system of fighting the plague by doing nothing more than marking the houses of the sick with a huge red cross. We should have realized by now that this policy of containment is not the way to beat communism. We cannot permit communism to spread anywhere in the world, but especially in our own hemisphere. When it has already gained a foothold within shouting distance of our country, it is time to act immedi- ately and decisively. Are we going to step aside-as we did in Laos? Are we going to refuse to take action against this 'menace because certain coun- tries might accuse us of being aggressors? They are accusing us of this now. British Guiana, for example. Over every radio sta- tion, night and day, they are conducting a vicious hate America campaign. In Venezuela, anti-American feeling has reached epidemic proportions. Is taking action against Castro going to make us any more or any less popular? Sur- vival of our system cannot be considered less important than a popularity contest. Admittedly, deciding the course of action to be taken against Cuba is a difficult choice. We have struggled for years to erase the "American Imperialist" image from the minds of certain Latin Americans who can- not forget the Marines in Venezuela or Hai- ti-who remember Mexico and the Gadsden Purchase-who remember Honduras-who feel that the big brother to the north is domineering and tyrannical. The history of our relations with Latin America is not altogether to our credit, and in recent years we have taken many forward steps toward erasing these unfortunate inci- dents and living in true harmony and co- operation with our neighbors. Few if any of the governments of the Cen- tral and South American nations are on Cas- tro's side. The Organization of American States (OAS) has often debated the Cuban problem. The OAS is a treaty organization bound to defend member states against aggression and could legitimately act in Cuba. No matter what the source of the action taken is, however, something must be done about Castro's Cuba. It is painfully easy to see what will happen. If we permit our avowed enemies to remain in Cuba, we will begin losing valuable ground in Latin America-just as we have in Africa and Asia. We must not-we dare not-forget that there is a certain genius behind the Com- munist's organizational and infiltration technique. They know how to foment up- risings. They know how to stay In once they've gotten in. They recognize the basic attraction and sympathy people have for the underdog and they capitalize on this at every turn. They do not and never will play by any rules. Their ambitions are too great for that. Their method of operation has been demonstrated to us time and time again, yet we' persist in thinking that we can fight them with diplomatic weapons as outdated as the bow and arrow. They are not playing for fun. They are playing for keeps, and our very survival is at stake. We have lost every time we have followed the policy of containment. We know from bitter experience that contained countries become stronger and our position becomes weaker. They can move. We cannot. This policy has- cost the free world dearly. It will continue to do so. We cannot afford to experiment in Cuba. Nor can we afford to utilize policies that are proven to be ineffective. Ninety miles is not a very big distance. SHIPPING OF GRINDING MACHINES TO U.S.S.R. (Mr. LIPSCOMB (at the request of Mrs. WEIS) was given permission to ex- tend his remarks at this point in the RECORD and to include extraneous mat- ter.) Mr. LIPSCOMB. Mr. Speaker, a resi- dent of the congressional district I rep- resent recently wrote to the Department of Commerce in regard to the export license which was issued, and since revoked, authorizing shipment of preci- Approved For Release 2004/10/12 : CIA-RDP64B00346R000200160022-3 196.1 Approved For Release 2004/10/12 : CIA-RDP64B00346R000200160022-3 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE of Labor and Justice in moving forward in and policies to promote the welfare of its a unitr:d national effort for these purposes. younger citizens, and Specifically, the draft bill would authorize Whereas the steady growth in the inci- a 6-year program, beginning with the fiscal deuce of juvenile delinquency and youth year 198:2, as follows: crime has long been recognized as a national . Demonstration and Evaluation Projects: problem of major concern, and Grants would be available to any State, local, Whereas there is a demonstrated need or other public or nonprofit agency, organs- that the resources of the Federal Govern- zation, or institution for projects for the ment be promptly mobilized to provide evaluation, or demonstration of the effective- leadership and direction in a national effort ness, of techniques and practices which hold to strengthen our social structure and to promise of making a substantial contribution correlate, at all levels of government, ju- to the prevention or control of juvenile venue and youth services; that training of delinquency or youth offenses (including the personnel for juvenile and youth programs treatment of juvenile delinquents and youth- be intensified; and, that research to develop ful offenders). more effective measures for the prevention, Major emphasis would be given, under this treatment, and control of juvenile delin- program, to the selection of a limited num- quency and youth crime be broadened: Now, ber of communities or States that show therefore, prornise of having programs for the preven- By virtue of the authority vested in me as tion or control of juvenile delinquency or President of the United States, it is ordered youth offenses that might be useful or appli- as follows: cable in other parts of the country. These SECTION 1. (a) There is hereby established communities or States would be given funds the President's Committee on Juvenile Delin- for financing part or all of the cost of quency and Youth Crime (hereinafter re- evaluating or demonstrating the effective- ferred to as the Committee). The Commit- ness of such programs and reporting on the tee shall be composed of the Attorney Gen- findings. These findings would then provide eral, the Secretary of Labor, and the Secre- a body of information that could be dis- tary of Health, Education, and Welfare. seminated on a nationwide basis so that all Each member of the Committee shall desig- parts of the country could benefit from the nate an official or employee of his depart- ]te ate member who shall rn 7845 urea including legislation which it deems desirable to further the objectives of this order. SEC. S. All executive departments and agencies of the Government are authorized and directed to cooperate with the Com- mittee and to furnish it such information and assistar ce, not inconsistent with law, as it may require in the performance of its functions and duties. - SEC. 7. Consonant with law, the Depart- ments of Justice, Labor, and Health, Educa- tion, and Welfare, shall as may be necessary for the effetuation of the purpose of this order, #,Irnish assistance to the Committee in accordance with section 214 of the Act of May 3, 1945, 59 Stat. 134 (31 U.S.C. 691). Such aisistatnce may include the detailing of employees to the Committee to perform such functions, consistent with the purpose of this order, as the Chairman of the Com- mittee may assign to them. One of such employees may be designated to serve as Executive Director of the Committee. The necessary office space, facilities and supplies for the use of the Committee shall be fur- nished by ;he three departments concerned as they shall agree. JOHN F. KENNEDY. THE 'ivHITE HOUSE, May 11, 1961, successful experience of those communities ment as an a and States. serve as a member of the Committee in lieu SUDETEN DAY 2. Training of Personnel: Grants would of the regular member whenever the regu- (Mr. BECKER (at the request of Mrs. also be authorized for the training of per- lar member is unable to attend any meet- WEffi) was given permission to extend sonnel, employed or preparing for employ- ing of the Committee; and the alternate r:ss at this point inthe RECORD ment In programs for the prevention or con- member shall while serving as such have in his renna trol of juvenile delinquency or youth offenses. all respects the same status as a member of and to include extraneous matter.) These grants would be available to any State, the Committee as does the regular member Mr. BECKER. Mr. Speaker, in the local, or other public or private nonprofit for whom he is serving. The Chairman of days o May 20 till May 23, the Sudeten agency, organization, or institution, to carry the Committee shall be the Attorney Gen- German Day is taking place in Cologne, out programs which held promise of making eral. Germany. The Sudeten German expel- a substantial contribution to the prevention (b) The Committee may invite representa- lees who were forcibly deported from or control of delinquency or youth offenses. tives of the Judiciary to participate in its their gentarie a forcibly homeland in Bohemia These pr6grams of courses, among others, deliberations. shall review, and Moravia/Silesia by the Communists the development of courses, and d fellowships SEC. 2. The Committee (1) r and traineeships. evaluate and promote ote the coordination of in 194,.), constitute now the main part of Those provisions would make possible an the activities of the several departments the 11 million of German expellees and intensive effort in meeting the acute short- and agencies of the Federal Government re- refugees living now in the free West age of trained workers in this field-such as kiting to juvenile delinquency and youth German ]?ederal Republic. There were probation officers, police, social workers, in- crime; (2) shall stimulate experimentation, million Sudeten Germans in their stitutional house parents, youth gang work- innovation and improvement in Federal pro- 3 3.3 .3 mil homeland; over 2 million of era and. others. This not only would begin a grams; (3) shall encourage cooperation and ancie tive; now in West Germano, the but of. urgently needed trained personnel the sharing of information between Fed-them but would also improve, through inservice eral agencies and State, local and private rest in Austria and the Soviet Zone of and other short-term training programs, the organizations having similar responsibilities Germany-many of them come again background knowledge and skill of existing and interests; (4) shall make recommenda- as refugees from the Soviet Zone to West personnel. tions to the Federal departments and agen- Germany. 3. Technical assistance services: In adds- des on measures to make more effective the The issue of the German expellees and tion to studies relating to the prevention or prevention, treatment, and control of juve- refugees and of the Sudeten German ex- control of juvenile delinquency or youth of- nile delinquency and youth crime. not only an old one, but a very fenses, including the effectiveness of projects SEC. 3. There Is hereby established the ppellelf present, stt, is snot o one. Thousands of new y carried. under this bill, the draft bill would Citizens Advisory Council (hereinafter re- refugees from the Soviet Zone of Ger- authorize technical assistance to State and (erred to as the Council) which shall con- Municipalities and other public or private list of not less than 12 and not more than many arl ive daily in West Berlin and in agencies in such matters, and the provision 131 members, who shall be persons (including West Gel many. of short-term training and instruction in persons from public and voluntary organi- They are the main anti-Communist technical matters relating to the prevention zations) who are recognized authorities in force in Germany and probably the or control of delinquency or youth offenses professional or technical fields related to World. They are an asset for anyone in (again including treatment of the indivi- juvenile delinquency or youth crime, or per- duals involved). sons representative of the general public the free world who wants to save hu- The bill would require that the Secretary who are leaders in programs concerned with man freedom. They are the anti-Com- of Health, Education, and Welfare consult juvenile delinquency or youth crime, and muntst wall-in the same way as if half with the President's Committee on Juvenile who shall be designated by the Chairman of of the "United States were occupied by Delinquency and Youthful Offenders on mat- the Commitee after consultation with the the Reds and American anti-Commu- ters of general policy under the bill and con- Committee and serve at the pleasure of the nists would flee from the occupied zone sider any recommendations of the Commit- Committee. The Chairman of the Council the still free territory-they would be tee on project applications or proposed shall be designated by the Chairman of the the same anti-Communist wall as are the studies under the bill. Cpmmittee. The additional cost of the proposed bill SEC. 4. The Council shall furnish the Com- German expellees and refugees today. for the fiscal year 1962 is estimated to be mittee advice and recommendations with re- The Sudeten German expellees have $10 million. spect to the matters with which the Com-? always strived for the cooperation with Faithfully yours, mittee is concerned under section 2 of this conservative anti-Communist American ABRAHAM RIBICOFF, order and any other matters relating to the Statesmen in the Congress. They have, Secretary. functions of the Committee on which it may moreover, always striven for a close co- EXECUTIVE ORDER 10940 desire information or advice. operation with the Czechs, Slovaks, and ortsj make re h l i t a ee s l t SEC. 5. The Comm k, Hu11l';arilns living now also in exile, ESTABLISHING THE PRESIDENT'S COMMITTEE ON to the President from time to time witn:l JUVENILE DELINQUENCY AND YOUTH CRIME respect to is activities and shall make rec?? with whom they had lived for the long Whereas the U.S. Government has an ob- ommendaticns to the President regarding; 20 year,,. in one state, Czechoslovakia, ligation 1t~o maintain and develop programs policy, programs, and any additional meas.. erected in 1918, but with whom they had iV o. 83--14 '.. Approved For Release 2004/10/12 : CIA-RDP64B00346R000200160022-3 6R000200160022-3 7751 1961 Approved Feb%"gSJ8( /k1~J/ 0DP?JW from the design, construction, and operation their achievement used as a basis for that we ought not to be involved in Que- of the large nuclear-power stations already discrimination in a variety of Federal moy or Matsu, that we should try to assured. programs. gracefully withdraw from the Berlin The long-range outlook for the uranium I have voted on occasion for programs situation. He describes these groups as industry is bright-of this I am certain. The intermediate period may be difficult but dif- which tax Connecticut citizens dispro- the real descendants of the America ficulties have been, and can be, overcome, portionately for the benefit of other sec- Firsters and the isolationists of 20 years it b e- I still am an optimist. tions of the country. I have done cause this is one country, one people, with one common cause. I believe that SUPPORT OF DAVITS-COOPER when we help Americans anywhere, if AMENDMENT TO FEDERAL AID TO the program is reasonable, we help EDUCATION BILL Americans everywhere. Mr. DODD. Mr. President, I am a Because of Connecticut's high stand- supporter of the Javits-Cooper amend- ing in personal income, the people of our ment. I support it because it provides State stand to be taxed more for Fed- a far more acceptable formula for dis- eral programs than any other State. tributing Federal aid for school con- There are many programs of vital in- struction and teachers' salaries than terest to the Nation such as conserva- the committee bill. tion, agriculture, public power, recla- I was led to this position, first, by mation, irrigation, and others which by the problem of my own State of Con- their nature have little application to necticut and, second, by my concern for Connecticut. Yet we are willing to sup- the national picture. port these programs with our tax dollars The committee bill provides only because they are important to the Na- $9.26 for each Connecticut school-age tion and Connecticut is a part of the child, the lowest amount granted to any Nation. State under the committee bill. At the But we have before us today a problem present time, the average educational ex- which does apply to Connecticut. Our penditure per child in Connecticut is State, like other States, needs help in the around $420. Action pending before the field of education and it is entitled to State legislature will raise that figure to get that help on an equal basis with about $450, and local action in many other States. of our 169 communities will raise that Even if the allowance per school child figure closer to the $500 mark. was the same in every State, Connecticut Against these figures, the $9.26 per would still be giving more than it gets school-age child provided by the com- because of its high income position. But mittee bill is insignificant. It will on top of this inherent disproportion, scarcely make a dent in the educational there has been added a discriminatory problem of Connecticut. And to get this formula under which Connecticut re- marginal aid, the taxpayers of Con- ceives the least though it pays the most. necticut will be required to spend sev- This is unfair. eral dollars in Federal taxes for each The Javits-Cooper amendment pro- dollar of aid they receive. vides a reasonable formula for dealing As a small sweetener, the committee fairly with all States and dealing ade- bill permits private and parochial quately at the same time with the na- schoolchildren, which number about 18 tional interest. It provides a basic pay- percent of Connecticut's school popula- ment of $20 per pupil to all States. It tion, to be counted for Federal-aid pur- does not abuse commonsense by paying poses. The private and parochial the public school system for the expenses schools, of course, will not receive this borne by private and parochial schools. money. Their children will merely be And for the several States which, because used as justification for raising the total of their relative poverty, have special which goes to the public schools. educational problems, the amendment This violates basic equity since it pro- provides extra money. vides Federal money to States for fl- This is a formula that I can -support. nancing education for which the States Under it Connecticut would receive al- bear no expense. And it adds insult to most $8.4 million as opposed to the $5.2 injury to parents of private and pa- million under the committee bill. And rochial schoolchildren who not only re- as a matter of principle, it would treat ceive no aid, but also find their great Connecticut on an equal basis with most effort and sacrifice recognized only as other States, making special allowances a basis for increased aid to public for the grave problems of the States least I-, ,,Ir able to help themselves. uV Under the committee bill, Connecti- I congratulate my colleagues for offer- cut is at the bottom of the list in aid ing this amendment, and I am privileged received, and at the top of the list in N to join wit them In its support. Connecticut, though ' it has many '"NEW I OLATIONIST-PACIFIST serious economic problems and around ` THREAT prosperous State in the Union. I am, Mr. DODD. Mr. President, yester- of course, happy about this. Our rela- day's Washington Evening Star carried tive prosperity does not arise because an article by the distinguished columnist, we have any unusual natural resources. William S. White, which was one of the We have practically no natural re- finest nutshell summaries I have seen of sources. The prosperity of Connecticut the crisis we face. has been built over long decades by the Mr. White describes as neopacifists and thrift, ingenuity, know-how, and hard neoisolationists those who today argue work of its people. And frankly, our that we cannot do anything about Cuba, people are getting a little tired of having that we cannot do anything about Laos, Mr. White points out that the neo- Isolationists and the neopacifists are far more influential and, therefore, far more dangerous, than their forebears in the late 1930's, because their arguments are less frank and more subtle. Whether our country will succeed or fail, in my judgment, depends in large measure on whether our Government, our press, and our universities can free themselves of the influence of these lat- ter-day pacifists. I ask unanimous consent that the col- umn by William S. White, appearing in the Evening Star of May 17, 1961, be printed at this point in the RECORD. There being no objection, the article was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows: NEW ISOLATIONIST-PACIFIST THREAT-GROUP SEEN PERILING NATION IN DELUSION THAT ALL FORCE, EVEN FOR RIGHT, Is EVIL (By William S. White) American foreign policy stands at the most fateful crossroads since the old isolationists and paciflcists narrowly failed two decades ago to prevent this country from joining in the resistance to the Nazis and Fascists. This movement honestly believed itself dedicated to "peace" and to America First. But had it had its way America would have finished not first but rather third-the third victim, after Britain and France, of an antihuman force centered in Adolf Hitler. Now there has arisen to frightening in- fluence a new American isolationism, a new American pacifism, which may well destroy the capacity of the United States to resist the equally antihuman force of interna- tional communism. in one way, indeed, the danger is greater now than then. For the old isolationists, the old pacifists, at least did not deny their isolationism, their pacifism. But the new isolationism will not acknowledge itself for what it is. The new pacifism will not admit, even to itself, that the inevitable end of its reasoning is the surrender of one anti-Com- munist position after another until there will be at last no place for the West to turn and stand its ground. Instead, the neoisolationists, the neopaci- flsts, put the plainmeaning of their policies under a bland, superior cloud of self-delud- ing talky-talk. They do not simply say flatly that we should take no risk in this world-not in Cuba, not in Laos, not any- where-and let it go at that. With that kind of candor, the issues could at any rate be met head-on. Rather, they argue, for example, simply that Cuba is not really a threat to the United States, in spite of the public alliance with the Soviet bloc publicly proclaimed by Fidel Castro. Cuba is only "peripheral," though Cuba lies 90 miles from the American shoreline and though for the first time in our nationhood an aggressive international power has an undeniable lodgment in this hemisphere. So it is with Laos. Laos is not really worth any risk, either. We are held to be interfering there in local politics, or some- thing or the other. Again, the pre-conditions for fair debate are denied for lack of candor among the new isolationists, the new pacifists. For nearly all those who now declare that Castro of- fers no great danger to us were in the fore- front of those who built up the dictator Approved For Release 2004/10/12 : CIA-RDP64B00346R000200160022-3 7752 Approved For Ret*QMffl fy12ALC ~MQB0 R%0200160022-3 May 18 Castro, with almost hysterical hosannas, in ITALY'S :ECONOMIC RxivarsaANCO In this economic renaissance, American in- the first place. He is in part their own crea- (By A. Spanel, ipan, International vectors and industrialists tion. This truth they cannot admit with- N. Schair are playing a large out admitting their share of responsibility. Latex Corp.) and wholesome part. Already over 300 U.S. So what is a truth becomes, to them, no Visitors to Italy are deeply impressed by firms opera-:e in Italy-usually in partner- truth at all. palpable evidences not only of a new pros- ship with local capital-and their numbers The new isolationists, the new pacifists, have s but of a neo eft. For country's those ho keep tractedby growing. More favorable and tax mandore of other them, at- have honorable motives. But at the very personal al memories s o of the cntry'sir- tives, find this land ideal for branch fac- bottom they are also men caught by a dan- turd collapse Only 15 years ago, this rebirth gerous and shallow myth exploded way back of a great nation has a touch of the miracu- tones. in Hitler's time for all mankind to see. This lous. And they have, too, the special satin- Most significant, as one surveys the Italian is the delusion that all force is always evil faction of knowing that the miracle was social scene, is a deep awareness among the (and all generals always stupid) even when wrought by freedom. people that the miracle of rebirth has been only force is left to defend right and justice. The cold statistics, and reports by long- made possible by the climate of freedom and It is the delusion that only "diplomacy" time American observers on the Italian scene, cooperation with the great democracies. The and "negotiation" are acceptable weapons. confirm the visitor's impressions. country plays an important role in the Eu- So we fail in Cuba, because we dare not The Rome correspondent of the Christian ropean common market. Undemonstratively risk direct action and thus the censure of Science Monitor, Walter Lucas, writes in the and without histrionics, it stands resolute the neo:isolationists, the neopaciflsts, in New Leader about "Italy's continuing eco- in devotion i o the free world coalition. Italy this and other countries. So our Secretary noinic miracle." Our former ambassador to has proved itself consistently as a loyal ally. of State refuses one day to sit down at Roane, James D. Zellerbach, writing in the Her people old in civilization, are ever aware Geneva with Communist gunmen and next Saturday Review, attests that "Italy is not that nafiona, like human beings, are en- day agrees to sit down with them, under only emerging as an industrial nation of the lowed with strengths and weaknesses, and pressure of the neopacifists in England, in first rank; it is also enjoying a major cultural they knewin;ly accept us as we are, with all France and here. renaissance whose Impact extends far beyond our strengths and all our weaknesses. It is easy tolaugh aside those who object its frontiers." The Fortune correspondent Italy has risen from the depths of defeat to these surrenders. It is only necessary to reports that in Italy "good tines have arrived and defeatism to become master of its own suggest that we are simply naive, excitable anti may have come to stay for the next destiny. Forewarned by a hair's-breadth es- men, fiagwavers and warmongers. But just decade." cape from the clutches of communism, the as Hitler tragically fooled the old isola- To grasp the magnitude of this victory, it Italians appear determined to preserve hu- tionista and pacifists, Khrushchev is tragi- should be recalled that in the short span of man freedom.. In this resolve they merit the cally fooling this new lot. three decades-1914 to 1945--Italy was em- understanding and unstinting cooperation So President Kennedy faces a great im- broiled in two disastrous World Wars, For of all their allies, and America especially, perative of history. He must soon free him- 23 years it was held in the paralyzing strait- It is altogether desirable that Italy's lead- pelf of every shadow of the influence of this jacket of fascism.. In the Second of the wars ers and its special genius be given ever big- new lot, or this country is going down the it was caught In the strangling pincers of the ger roles in ill free world alliances and en- drain--and so is his administration in the Mussolini-Hitler alliance. terprises, Theyhave won this right by mag- long book of that history. The end of these tribulations saw the na- niflcent performance under the most adverse tiou's economy in a shambles, its currency conditions. virtually valueless, Its spirit at low ebb. Deep The Italian people are the custodians of a ITALY'S ECONOMIC RENAISSANCE- social conflicts were impelling the country glorious heritage of history and culture. toward civil war. Exploiting idle hands and Their contributions are in the marrow and EDITORIAL BY A. N. SPANEL empty bellies with zealous skill were the at the heart of our Western civilization. It Mr. DODD. Mr. President, only the Communists, who dominated the internal is cause for profound satisfaction, therefore, unity of the free world can save free- liberation forces. Small wonder that the that their new renaissance is enabling Italy experts sadly prophesied doom. - to contribute measurably once again to the dom's cause on this planet, a theme that But today, though the country Is still beset World wei cherish. has been so consistently underscored to by economic and political problems, there is the people and to the statesmen of the 'no doubt that the prophets were wrong. The West in persuasive editorial advertise- Communists, true, are still the second lareest .'rr'trs' selves as the advocates of mild reform rather Mr. DODD. Mr. President, there is In repeatedly emphasizing the need than of violent revolution." now a very considerable libr - for true unity among the nations of the The fact is that Italy today is busy, boom- -D o ca s West, Mr. A. N. Spanel, founder of that ing, optimistic. Even in relation to its most uoces. prepared by pro-Democratic company, has maintained that initiative desperate problems-excessive population, sources. But, there are not enough plus the aggregate strength of the na- unemployment, the underdeveloped Mezzo- works In that library that combine dons of the free world are the most de- giorno or Italian south-the old defeatism is scholarship, balance, and readibility, so pores of the insurance we have Sgt de- evaporating. The creative energies of a won- that they W,11 impress at the same time derfully gifted and industrious people are the authority and the man in the street, planned Communist aggression. In this again in full eruption. framework there appeared an informa- The national economy, initially pump- I am haply, therefore, to bring to the tive article in the New York Times of primed by generous American dollar aid, has attention o;' the Senate a new book May 17, 1961 by Mr. Spanel entitled been growing by 6 percent a year; the trade which dk)es just that. "The Profile of "Italy's Economic Renaissance" in which balance is favorable; the lira is stable. Ac- is clearly traced the economic emergence cording to official figures, 1960 scored, as has just been published by the Anti-Def- of that nation, and its importance to against 1959, an 18-percent rise In industrial the West, investment, a 10-percent rise in employment, amation Le Lgue of B'nai B'rith. The 6 percent more consumption, league's contributions in this field were Mr. Spanel and his company have The providential discovery of oil and gas hailed in the past by J. Edgar Hoover in rendered great public service over the in north Italy and Sicily helped trigger the his, "Master3 of Deceit," as some of the years not only to Americans but to free- economic upsurge. Italians entered the in- most effective opposition to communism nom-l.ovillg people every where. Indeed, ternational market and became outstanding the notice we now r a therCon merchants In the petroleum world. By now in the United States. of - it is the automotive industry that paces the This book presents the basic history, tribution in the public interest is but a new prosperity, with an almost fourfold aims and techniques of the Communist modest forward to the unity which they expansion since. 1950. Steel production have pleaded for so long, and which can tripled in the same decade. Smaller yet movement in Soviet Russia and in the be so decisive for our survival and Striking growth has been registered In rub- free world. In simple question and an- grOwth, ber, synthetic fibers, chemicals. swer form, tae book analyzes the strat- 1 the uaked eye. I, therefore, ask unanimous consent The rise in living standards is visible to egy of this empire-building, totalitarian that the editorial by Mr. A. N. Spanel than ever before not Italians only for necessities more ut program and. exposes its inconsistencies. which appeared in the New York Times for luxuries. Once a land of bicycles, Italy it is designed for use in the schools and on May 17, 1961, be printed in the body has become a land of motor vehicles, its by community organizations. Of the RECORD. roads and streets jammed by everything "Profile of Communism" is a publica- from being no objection, the editorial from motor scooters and Italian-made auto- mobiles to big foreign cars. Television an- tion of the Anti-Defamation League's was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, tennas have become commonplace even in freedom books series. 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