CUBAN MENACE TO INDEPENDENCE OF THE PEOPLE AND GOVERNMENTS OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE

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they must be trying to clearthe fog
,,,Paf413-ans_. _
ollsters .Wi_set.the heartening trend
confidently predicting victory for
3:1-21M-11149-Ps111.113 and Oregon,
olclingthe tra_c_Ution a 1948, when
,._ 4.18414.4filide ?fOr GOV. Thomas
Dewey meant inevitahle trill=ph for Harry
; ?The fact -theitia x444,1101,1-alg 37,042D? lusiOn can
44-0*-1404:4707.4-4,044 the:palls has the Demo-
-tail ity, since the IDAS_S_ -think experts
e_sitlmt,-,419,11W011 P9113_1Ose In No-
* 44,11,47947:aiastvW4ILIA14 Priexisnaz,
0 ocrat, of Wispousin, suggests that "the
publicans will win the greatest victory in
e history of this country."
esicie21tial hopefuls who hire their own
linlliters?will expect them to return with a
listprognosis of thundering defeat. A fore-
, -
Offet of_yietwy_ is the political kiss of death.
`olister /024?Prezris, who got in the predict-
business in._ a big way as an opinion sam-
p ei for president Kennedy in the 1960 cam-
paign,- has thus f&r chalked _up a perfect
re? . Re has eallecilt, Wrong in New Kamp-
_ e, Oregon, and California,
'.110 Inalated his polls in California were
Orept t4,,,, Ol?When?,they were taken." Un-
fiartUZLOnlY, the electlui were not staged at
the .aght time.
? V11a_t K4ppeiieci??Mr:Iiarria said Governor
' _ROckefeller's defeat Wag due, in part, to "the
hizttiol the RoCkefeller hay." an event hap-
pily: seen by some as a plus factor for the
*anlpler ainnel i.41ibell gazed over bus-
::fling Califorrile? tinfi_kaW. eovernor Rocks-
feller,ee *Wing "the edge of victory through
_ 91e,,,tilter7 ?
,fian ,lle,fteconti-guessed himself, saying that
f1ef1atur,,734Xelf Gomm/vim had "a fair chance
pfyinuin_g." Thus, he picked both contest-
??hThIs4 In -9,PFQ-7.Mall race, an unbeatable gam-
Pitin, Peigng the public's pulse.
Don Much-
e Wiln? operate in_Dalifornia, also nailed
eller, pennant of victory to the
, zna ng it unanimque. And all wrong.
Le pollsters like to point out that their
, fOre_e_nstS Zequire a margin of 2 percent. And
li'll*, 2,Percent can =eau the difference be-
tween 91 percent and 4.9percent?or victory
Auld Aggq,-;att pollatering business has ob-
. Slops? bLititzin_atlyanteges.
' `At any rate? Mr. presictential Aspirant can
now he ekiected to _shudder in the late Sep-
teraher and mutter, "This is bad, Jenkins.
' The polls say I'm going to win.?
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" ., -AAT.44.? (at. the request of Mr.
zo-__ ,4137,41,91 Ne12,17aska) was granted per-
, PalpSIOn, tt. RiCtenii _his remarks at this
040,44 ,t4e. Ma:MD _and to include ex-
si.:00.uS d,,,,,,,,-, .,:..- - - -
,,I-W14,,,,J=?Speake?r, I have ulti-
aU-./At1i--11).--. the judgment of our elec-
? torate, , if_thOroughly and properly in-
10410. - ;91.1,,r_ae_t_em in a constitutional
-2e1liblie4 cipg gLmajority rule?and
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..SUCees4u1?system_ of government which
;truly ,S141313.Prts_freedora, individual lib -
PiCY, '4,114 pauc1?oLt120._World. This does
--not iye,tli
aelvorld.press, even in friendly
:11S2_11).9te,11= ?C,Olintries, or the free
or , ingeneraL the privilege of delv-
ing Ji.:1,t9--0A .Wivtinz influence upon our
- party system or _election statutes. This
especially reprehensible when another
PCaltiqiii, Party or nation, which has sur-
, -ylired, by the grace of our valor, impinges
its d IAD aaainst a
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great man and the Grand Old Party, as
though it were the less able to handle its
own affairs and procedures. The Re-
publican Party is able, or it has and will
so demonstrate, and this editorial sup-
ports this thesis. I commend it to the
considered and prayerful thought and
judgment of all:
[From the National Observer, June 8, 19641
FOREIGN EFFORTS TO INFLUENCE PARTY
ELECTIONS
enatOr GOLDWATER upset lots of other
folks besides Governor Rockefeller in his
California primary victory the other day.
He upset the pollsters who had been pre-
dicting his defeat. He upset some Republi-
can leaders who were counting on a gang-up
to "stop" GOLDWATER. And, curiously
enough, he upset those legions of "liberal"
political commentators who now are prating
about the need to "save" the Republican
Party.
AFTER THE HOKUM AND POKUD/1
The postelection bleats were almost amus-
ing, considering the source. One esteemed
columnist, though candidly admitting he
preferred President Johnson to any Republi-
can, argued nonetheless that Republican
voters were doing something terribly wrong
in picking Mr. GOLDWATER to be their party's
standard bearer. You get the impression
that he, and others of his persuasion, think
the Republican Party is essential?so long
as it offers no real challenge to, or different
philosophy from, the Democrats in power.
Not amusing was the way many broad-
casters and newsmen reported results of the
primary. Implied, if not always stated, was
that the citizens who had voted for GOLD-
WATER were all political extremists or
"kooks," that a thoughtful and Intelligent
voter could not possibly have chosen Mr.
GOLDWATER over Mr. Rockefeller. Well, the
fact is a majority of voting Republicans in
California did, for reasons they considered
good and sufficient.
Much has been made about the closeness
of the vote. Citing the fact that GOLDWATER
won by only 58,231 votes (1,089,892 to 1,-
031,661 for Rockefeller), the pundits talk
darkly about the deep and unbridgeable
chasm that this supposedly reflects within
Republican ranks. Differences of opinion
there certainly are; that's what makes a
horse race and a political race. But one has
only to go back to the Presidential election
of 1960 (Kennedy 34,227,096 votes to 34,108,-
for Nixon) to note that a close vote in
Ws country is neither unusual nor cata-
strophic. The marvel of the system, after
all, is that when all the shouting, the claw-
ing, the hokum, and the pokuin are done, the
final decision is made by each citizen in the
solitude of the voting booth. And that de-
cision is then respected by all.
So we are not much perturbed by the
breast beating of outsiders over California's
decision last week. Senator GOLDWATER still
has a way to go to win the Republican nomi-
nation. Governor Rockefeller has a perfect
right, if he chooses, to continue to compete
for the prize as do any other Republicans.
And next month, when the democratically
chosen delegates convene in San Francisco
for the Republican convention, we're certain
they can pick their best man?without the
hypocritical advice and consent of those who
wish the party no good.
PYRAMIDING TAX BENEFITS
ENCOURAGED BY ARA
(Mr. TALCOTT (at the request of Mr.
MARTIN' of Nebraska) was granted Per-
mission to extend his remarks at this
point in the RECORD and to include ex-
traneous matter.)
Mr. TALCOTT. Mr. Speaker, manipu-
lations of the Area Redevelopment Ad-
ministration program, which originally
had a noble purpose of attacking "pock-
ets of poverty," are becoming more and
more common and taking many forms
and directions.
Some going concerns are utilizing ARA
for startling tax breaks. ARA Adminis-
trators, who should be trying to close
"tax loopholes," are encouraging their
use and even enlarging the loopholes.
One example of this growing manipu-
lation is the case of the Cooper Tire &
Rubber Co., of Findlay, Ohio, which par-
layed the ARA and a local industrial aid
bond program into an $11 million factory
and tax bonanza at Texarkana, Ark.,
without risking any of its own cash. It
did so by trading "free competitive en-
terprise" for a socialistic-type expedient
of getting the city and Miller County to
build the plant for it.
First, city voters approved, 1,750 to 150,
a $7,035,000 bond issue paying 4 percent
which the ARA bought, obligating the
city, not Cooper, to pay back the money
out of rentals on the factory.
Second, the city voters approved, 1,806
to 156, a $2.2 million bond issue paying
41/4 percent interest which was sold to
a Chicago bank. The ARA agreed to let
this satisfy Congress requirement that
20 percent of any ARA venture be fi-
nanced by a bank?even though the Chi-
cago bank actually invested none of its
money directly in the Cooper operation,
but only in a city revenue bond.
Third, Miller County voters approved,
2,430 to 248, a $1,100,100 bond issue which
the ARA said would satisfy its require-
ment that 10 percent of any venture to
be put up a local development organiza-
tion, public or private. The county
turned the money over to the city to help
build the plant.
Fourth, Texarkana city voters ap-
proved, 1,774 to 150, a $550,000 bond is-
sue paying 5 percent interest to be sold
in toto to Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. For
thus investing in its own plant, Cooper
gets its 5 percent interest every year en-
tirely tax free of the usual 52 percent
Federal income tax on corporate profits.
Not only that, but because it actually
pays the interest indirectly to itself in
the form of rent, Cooper gets to deduct
the amount as a business expense from
its Federal taxes, a double windfall.
Cooper has a lease to rent the Govern-
ment-owned plant for 25 years at a price
that will pay off both the bonds and in-
terest. This provides another tax break
because Cooper can deduct all the rent
as a business expense, thus paying for
Its own plant in 25 years, whereas under
the Internal Revenue Service deprecia-
tion allowance depreciation allowance
would have to be stretched out over 45
years. Then, as the cherry atop this
happy pudding, Cooper gets to buy the
$11 million plant at the end of its lease
period for a nominal $100,000. And of
course they get to deduct that $100,000
from their Federal taxes as a business
expense, too.
If cases like this are encouraged and
promoted by ARA administrators, both
the ARA and the philosophy of tax-free
ij,inic4pal boritislvill be jeopardized.
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CUBAN MENACE TO INDEPENDENCE
OF THE PEOPLE AND GOVERN-
MENTS OF THE WESTERN HEMI-
SPHERE
(Mr. SCHENCK (at the request of Mr.
Mrurrnt of Nebraska) was granted per-
mission to extend his remarks at this
point in the RECORD and to include extra-
neous Matter.)
Mr. SCHENCK. Mr. Speaker, all of
us are deeply concerned about our Gov-
ernment's policy toward Cuba. Publish-
er Dwight Young, of the Dayton (Ohio)
Journal Herald, raises some pertinent
questions in his "Talking It Over" col-
=in of May 25, 1961. I am glad to call
this column to the attention of the Con-
greSs and the Nation.
Mr. Young's column follows:
TALE:am Ir ?vita
(By Dwight Young)
Does the average U.S. citizen have any
realization of the serious menace to the in-
dependence of the people and the govern-
ments of the Western Hemisphere that Fidel
Castro has become?
Do the countries of the free world, notably
Britain, France, and Canada, that persist in
selling badly needed goods to the Castro re-
gime on extraordinarily liberal terms, fully
Understand the dangerous game they are
playing?
And does our own Government that for
several months has been huffily engaged, over
the protests of American taxpayers, in ship-
ping huge quantities of grain products to
Russia at ridiculously low subsidized prices,
realize how wobbly and Illogical its own
position is in continuing to upbraid its old
free world allies for their persistence in
carrying on business as usual with Cuba?
If it doesn't it's dumber than this corner
ever thought it could beconie. How can we
Object in good conscience to Britain. France.
and Canada trading on a normal, commercial
basis with Cuba while we cOntinue to trade
with Russia? Do wkhave any commitment
from Moscow that nothing we sell to the
Soviets will, in turn, be reel:lipped to Cuba?
Indeed, we don't, and eVeh if we did, it
wouldn't be worth the paper It was
Written on.
Castro is a Russian puppet. He deliber-
ately chose that course. When be first came
to power in Cuba he was wined and dined in
Washington. Whatever his sins of the im-
mediate past may have been?and some of
them were pretty black?they were forgiven.
The American Society of Newspaper Editors
displayed him as their convention headliner.
The State Department joined in entertaining
him lavishly. Momentarily he was Latin
America's fair-haired boy.
But Fidel Castro had different ideas--far
different. He was power hungry and he
envisioned himselrf as a second Lenin or
Stalin or Khrushchev in the Western Hemi-
sphere. Be wasn't long in publicly alining
himself with the Khrushchev power machine.
As Moscow's eager protege he has performed
Invaluable service to the Communist world
in fomenting trouble in the Western Hemi-
sphere and has been well recompensed.
In its all-Ohio edition last Friday morn-
ing the Cleveland Plain Dealer carried on
its front page a revealing story of the extent
of Castro's current machinations in Latin
America.
It was written by John P. Leacacos of the
PD's Washington bureau, on information
supplied by an unnamed "high administra-
tion source."
The article reveals Castro Is spending
as flinch as t20 million annnally in Latin
American governmental deviltry. More than
(CM111.1011 dollars a month is being expended.
Mr. LeaeaeOk 'was Refused, for travel and
training 500 carefully selected residents of
other Latin American countries who have
been transported to Havana where they are
trained in Communist indoctrination tac-
tics.
That has been the Castro revolutionary
program the last 2 years and it is continuing
full blast in I284. These trainees, when
sufficiently indoctrinated and familiarized
with the most modern Communist technics,
are sent home to begin undermining their
own governments.
Among the countries across the Caribbean
that have felt the force of such subversive
techniques In the last 2 years are Chile,
Bolivia, Venezuela, and Brazil. These are
among the better known ones. There are
several others where the sinister Castro's
Interference is strongly suspected of having
substantially established itself.
How much longer is the Government of
the United States going to continue its pres-
ent palpably ineffectual tactics in dealing
with the increasingly desperate situation in
Castroland?
How much longer are we going to keep
on cringing before Kb,rushchev's publicly
proclaimed threat to defend Castro from any
type of military attack originating in the
United States?
How much longer will every red-blooded
American in Congress, or outside, who has
the guts to declare our present Cuban policy
intolerable and a national disgrace, and who
demands the adoption of stern measures to
rid the Western Hemisphere of Castroism
forever, have to endure the ignominy of being
spotlighted by Washington's peace-at-any-
price boys as a warmonger?
GKIE AT OXFORD: DAVID BOREN
(Mr. LAIRD (at the request of Mr.
lsgAirrnt of Nebraska) was granted per-
mission to extend his remarks at this
point in the RECORD and to include ex-
traneous matter.)
Mr. LAIRD. Mr. Speaker, within the
last 2 weeks David Boren, one of our
neighbors here in the Washington area,
has written us some very interesting and
worthwhile letters.
He is a young man who graduated from
Yale University last year with outstand-
ing honors. Presently he is a Rhodes
scholar at Balliol College in Oxford, Eng-
land. David Boren introduced me as
president of the Yale Political Union
when I spoke at the Yale Campus last
year. I have watched this young man
for several years and believe that he has
a tremendous future. His letter of May 1
addressed to my wife and me and the
enclosed articles should be read by every
Member of Congress. It might be well
to point out that David Boren's father
was formerly a distinguished Member of
this body. I refer of course to former
Representative Lyle Boren, of Oklahoma.
The letter from David Boren and the
enclosures follow:
BALL1OL COLLEGE,
Oxford, England, May 1,1964.
DEAR Pareems: I am now back in Oxford
and settled clown for the spring term which
will last until the 20th of June. Oxford is
a far different place in the spring. The
famous college gardens are beginning to come'
into bloom and the walk along the river looks
a great deal better in the sun than in the
fog and ice.
This term' I will be studying economic or-
ganization under Mr. Balogh, the chief ad-
viser to Harold Wilson, Labor Party prime
minister candidate. It remains to be seen
how well we will get along but at any rate
it should be quite an interesting term. Ms.
Balogh is definitely an eccentric who often
slumps on to the floor, lies down, fiddles with
a rubber band, or simply pretends to snore
and be asleep while his students are attempt-
ing to read their essays to him. He has given
tutorials on train platforms, in the bathtub,
and in Blackwell's bookshop with the stu-
dents following him down the street, reading
as they walked along. These habits are to say
the least disconcerting but yet Balogh never
fails to catch a mistake on even the smallest
of details. I'm also reading moral philosophy
under Mr. Montefiore, a well-known Oxford
philosopher who has the ability to make a
complete shambles out of what one thinks
has been a well-written essay.
Rowing will also continue to take up some
of my time. We work 5 days a week and
in no time I should be a mere shadow of my
former self. We rowed at Henley for a week
before term began. The small picturesque
town is really the capital of English rowing
and several well known regattas are held
there.
This is also the season for the famous
Oxford balls that colleges hold to celebrate
their anniversaries. Balliol had theirs last
year on the 700th anniversary of the college.
At the end of last term I attended the Con-
servative Association Ball at Blenheim Pal-
ace, home of the Duke of Marlborough and
birthplace of Winston Churchill. It was
really an impressive event. May morning
was also recently celebrated. The night be-
fore the first of May, many students stay up
all night and float down the river in punts
(small boats) ending at sunrise beneath
Magdalen College Bridge. The adiagdalen
Choir sings from the top of the college tower
and there is folk dancing in the streets.
All in all this term should be a stimulating
and pleasant one. Another highlight will
be the annual Princeton-Harvard-Yale din-
ner in London with Arnold Toynbee, the
famous historian, as guest speaker. There
will also be special performances at the Strat-
ford theater in Shakespeare's hometown in
honor of the 400th anniversary of his birth.
The British elections will be held in Oc-
tober. I am serving this term as a university
conservative association representative for
Balliol. The election prospects for the Con-
servatives are very bad and have declined a
great deal in the last 2 months. Prime Min-
ister Home lacks the ability to inspire en-
thusiasm. The only thing that might pre-
vent a Labour victory Is the growing opposi-
tion to the program for nationalization of
industry. Recently the Labourites also
hinted that the state might seize all privately
owned schools and some land. So far they
have soft pedaled this proposal but if it is
made a major issue, it could hurt labor be-
cause much of their support comes from non-
socialists who are simply tired of the Con-
servatives after 13 years.
This summer I will be traveling with my
family in July and August in Western Eu-
rope and am really looking forward to it.
The fall term will not begin until the first
week in October when a horde of new Rhodes
scholars will be arriving. One is coming
from Oklahoma and two from Yale. Of the
32 new American scholars, no less than 9
will be in Balliol. Some of the English stu-
dents are calling Balliol "Little America" and
are threatening to meet the new scholars
with placards reading "Yankee Go Home."
My main purpose in writing this letter is
to tell you about my recent trip to Eastern
Europe during the Easter vacation for 5
weeks. I traveled with Dan Rowland from
Yale and a Balliol friend, Russell Bryant, who
Is from Jacksonville Beach, Pia. Once again
I arn going to rely mainly upon articles which
I have written for the paper. I apologize
for doing so, and I know that many of you
are disappointed that because of a lack of
space and in order to assure clarity in a news-
paper article. It is necessary to leave out
many of the conditionals and exceptions, and
to rely upon less sophisticated and more di-
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