NIXON JOURNEYS CONTRASTED

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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - APPENDIX 7299.
Nixon Journeys Contrasted his connections with it become, the more he
detests and abominates it-both as a philos-
ophy and a way of life."
EXTENSION OF REMARKS As so often is the case, the well thought
of out words of Senator MUNDT add up to com-
monsense and reason. The difference In the
receptions afforded the Vice President at
Of SOUTH DAKOTA Caracas and Warsaw amply illustrate the
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES point he has made for us.
The inhabitant of the first city, in Vene-
Monday, August 24, 1959 zuela, are happily not infested, infected or
otherwise inflicted with the plague known
Mr. MUNDT. Mr. President, Mr. as Marxist communism: How easy for them
rxeorge Todt, noted west coast columnist to sit around and prate of what an excellent
and commentator, whose column orig- system of government it might be.
inates on the. editorial page of the Val- But the more practical denizens of the
ley Times which covers the San Fernan- capital of Poland, which is Warsaw, are not
a'llo Valley out in California, has come the unrealistic theorists of the South Amert-
up with some highly interesting observa- can variety who, to put it in the words of the
overrun Poles, may be said to have "never
tuns growing out of Vice President had it so good."
UixoN's visits to Russia and Poland. The liberty-loving people of Poland have
I think many Americans will share Mr.- had the Red colossus on their backs since
Todt's conviction that the existence of the end of the Second World War. Although
the Iron Curtain is not so much to keep the cream the Polish patriots r country y demo-
mews, and facts and people from getting t crate ecilerr{lhofnt been of the he ated by the Commu-
-vent people unhappy with communism
from fleeing their homelands.
I ask unanimous consent that the edi-
torial may be printed in the Appendix
of the RECORD.
There being no objection, the editorial
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD,
as follows:
NIXON JOURNEYS CONTRASTED
(By George Todt)
What may very well have been the most
significant feature of Vice President RICHARD
NIXON'S recent trip to Moscow and Warsaw-
seems to have been lost on many writers
and observers who covered this event.
For the warm' reception he received behind
the Iron Curtain indicated pretty conclu-
sively that those who know communism best
receive most affectionately those who fight
against it the hardest.
Conversely, NIXON's trip to South America
a little more than a year ago-where and
when he was stoned and spat upon-shows
us the other side of the coin: Those who
know communism the least are, at the same
time, also the most antagonistic to those
who oppose its expansion at the expense of
free nations around the world. _
There is a lot of difference between those
who can afford to seat themselves on the side-
lines and preach theoretical communism as
an attractive ideology for their fellows-and
others who are forced to live under its god-
less tenets as a working formula.
Let's think this one over for ourselves,
shall we?
Speaking along such lines as we have been
discussing here, Senator KARL E. MUNDT, Re-
publican of South Dakota, one of the wisest
and most solid of the solons on Capitol Hill,
recently had this to say:
"I believe that several lessons can well be
learned from the short interval of history
which took the Vice President of the United
,
y
e pos
States on the big jump from rocks in Vene- Here's a, roundup. more public housing direct leans for college
United good Stateswill Controversial issues to be carried over in- classrooms (backdoor Treasury financing
zuela for the for thSn Warsaw, the his
mission people lesson elude minimum wage, aid to education, aid
I think the first soon e n is clearly this: ? beyond Congress' control), urban renewal
Communism has its greatest appeal to the to depressed areas, Federal unemployment (though reduced), and others. As before,
people who live farthest from it. compensation, Federal health insurance, so- this bill probably will be held until the last
"The second lesson is that to people living cial security expansion, interest rate ceiling minute and then railroaded through. As
under communism, but once. enjoyed free- removal. (and others?). for agriculture, the general recommendations
dom-as is true in the case of the people of Controversial issues considered earlier and of the President for reduced price support
Poland-the existence of freedom and its scheduled for further action include labor levels and eased acreage requirements will
demonstration anywhere in the world, as ex- reform, housing, and the farm program. New get little if any attention, I believe, even
emplified by Vice President NixoN's visit to items for House debate include Public Law though the President may urgently so re-
Warsaw and to Russia, is a cause of great 480, (surplus food disposal), civil rights, quest of Congress.
rejoicing. highways and gasoline tax increase, and for- The interest rate ceiling's removel (see
"The third lesson is, I believe, that the eign investment tax incentive (H.R. 5). newsletters, of June 13, 27, and July 11) sO
more one knows about communism, or the Controversial clashes of viewpoint continue urgently requested by Treasury Secretary
closer he lives to it and the more intimate and include the political front, for example, Anderson to reduce the cost of Government
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murder there was the Katyn Forest massacre
of 14,000 army officers while the late war
was still in progress-those who yet remain
have forgotten neither their former freedom
nor hatred for the Communists who took it
away from them.
The real reason for the Iron Curtain to-
day, as :Lt has been in the past, is not so
much to keep us out-as it is to keep the
poor, miserable wretches on the other side
from running away.
'Do we need look any further than West
Berlin to, see that this is so? Actually, sev-
eral millions of grateful East Germans have
succeeded in gaining freedom for themselves
via this escape route.
But how many West Germans-or how
few-have gone the other way?
Washington Report
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. BRUCE ALGER
OF TEXAS
IN TILE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, August 12, 1959
who's for big spending, and the balanced
budget; our international policy embodied
In foreign aid (including food surplus
disposal) and the Khrushchev visit.
Public Law 480, the Agricultural Trade and
Assistance Act of 1954, to dispose of surplus
commodities, with amendments, was the
week's big floor debate, centered around a
barter provision. The big question-should
the United States dispose of our surplus food
products in exchange for strategic materials
for our national stockpile rather than sell for
foreign currency, which currency may or may
not be of any use to the United States. If
not, then thq food in effect becomes a gift.
The complicated, confusing, and at times
self-defeating nature of this programs led
me to observe in debate that the problems
confronting us arise because of a very basic
problem, quite overlooked; namely, that the
Federal Government is not set up nor in-
tended constitutionally to be In the distribu.
tion of food, clothing or other necessities,
neither at home nor abroad. The original
emergency nature of disposal of farm sur-
pluses has now, in my view, been distorted
so that surpluses are encouraged, Gov-
ernment regulation fostered, and the free -
market destroyed irl the United States and
throughout the world. The fact is, our sur-
pluses endanger the economies of other na-
tions, too. This basic Sault of the program
itself was not debated. Government has
been accepted as a food distributor at the
taxpayers' expense. All I can hope to do
is to keep the criticism alive, until the peo-
ple demand an. accounting. This I have
done and shall so continue.
Civil rights, already through the Senate,
will probably be before the House soon.
The Democrat leadership is committed to
advance in this field. The questions to be
resolved: (1) A tough bill or a relatively
innocuous one? (2) This year, or next (elec-
tion) year? Odds are, in my opinion, an
innocuous bill this year, because: (1) Few
can show any real need (other than political
in some districts) for further legislation;
and (2) many Republicans may feel con-
strained to cooperate with those Southern
Democrats who helped in enacting a legiti-
mate labor reform act. I expect a bill to
extend the Civil Rights Commission and
give the Justice Department a little greater
authority to Investigate local election prac-
tices. The gasoline tax increase may take
time, now that the Ways and Means Com-
mittee has voted out a 1-cent increase for
22 months and a later 5-percent excise tax
allocation to highways. I ,am among those
opposing a tax increase. (See newsletters of
Mr. ALGER. Mr. Speaker, under July 25 and August 1). Highways can be
leave to extend 'my remarks in the REC- built without more tax, I believe.
ORD, I include the newsletter of August Earlier controversial issues yet to be re-
22,1959: solved are headed by labor reform, .which is
now in conference between the House and
Texas) Senate's attempt to override (both Texas
AUGUST 22, 1959. Senators so voted), and the legitimate needs
The first session of the 86th Congress is embodied in the earlier outrageous bill, that
struggling to a close, many Members think, require that a bill be passed. The present
although in the next breath some concede suggested compromise is only a lesser degree
including
of endless debate ahead. of the faults of the vetoed bill
sibilit
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financing has become a political football.
By a party line vote (Democrats for, Repub-
licans against), the Committee on Ways and
-.Means voted to shelve such needed action
until next year. The Government thus is
forced to continue to compete with families
and small business men for the available
moii?y in the short-term loan market. As
I see it, it is wrong for Congress after spend-
ing the money to tie the hands of.the Sec-
retary in financing the Government debt.
So Congress struggles on, not all. good,
not all bad, but just like people. Congress
will improve only as the people force im-
provement by demanding righ action. Ad-
journment date; is anyone's guess.
The Captive Nations
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. MICHAEL A. FEIGHAN
of OIIIo
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Monday, August 10, 1959
Mr. FEIGHAN. -Mr. Speaker, under
leave granted, I insert in the RECORD a
recent article written by George E. Sb-
kolsky on "The Captive Nations" :
When NIXON and Khrushchev held their
now famous debate in the American-style
kitchen at the American Fair in Moscow,
the cause for Khrushchev's unruly anger was
that. Congress had passed a joint resolu-
tion on July 17 providing for a Captive Na-
tions Week, The President approved the
resolution the same day. Several times, dur-
ing Nixon's visits with Khrushchev, the lat-
ter referred to the "captives"-his captives.
After his anger, it struck him as funny. It
is not so funny for millions of human
beings.
The nations referred to in the resolution
are as follows: Poland, Hungary, Lithuania,
Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, Latvia, Estonia,
White Ruthenia, Rumania, East Germany,
Bulgaria, Mainland China, Armenia, Azer-
baijan, Georgia, North Korea, Albania, Idel-
Ural, Tibet, Cossackia, Turkestan, North
Vietnam, and others.
This is a long list of areas conquered by
Soviet Russia, mainly during World War II
-and after. Some of them have been in-
corporated within the Union of Socialist
Soviet Republics; others are so-called peo-
ple's republics. It is a record of imperialistic
success of the Kremlin. The resolution fur-
ther states:
'.`These submerged nations look to the
United States, as the citadel of human free-
dom, for leadership in bringing about their
liberation and independence and In restor-
ing to them the enjoyment of their Chris-
tian, Jewish, Moslem, Buddhist, and other
religious freedoms, and of their individual
liberties,"
This resolution seems to have bothered
Khrushchev more than any criticism that
has been made of his brutality or rude-
ness because it is a wholly true statement
of fact. Following the theories of Treitschke,
Stalin set out to establish a number of
satellite countries that would take the first
brunt of war.
To Soviet Russia, the captive nations
represent a Chinese Wall against the West.
Men's memories are short. We, in America,
forget, for instance, that the United States
brought into existence the most progressive
Slavic state, Czechoslovakia. It was the great
friendship of three men, Woodrow Wilson,
Prof. Thomas G. Masaryk, and Charles R.
Crane that carved out this nation, liberated
it from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and
obtained its independence at the Paris Con-
ference after World War I. Czechoslovakia
became a democratic republic with Prof.
Thomas G. Masaryk as President and Dr.
Eduard Benes as Prime Minister. Hitler
seized this country on the ground that the
Sudeten Germans (Bohemia) were ethnically
Germans and, therefore belonged to him. The
Kremlin succeeded to Hitler's ownership.
Czechoslovakia is now practically an integral
part of Russia with no life of its own.
Americans were excited when Hitler
marched into this peaceloving country of
hardworking, energetic people. We are not
excited today when Czechoslovakia is, for
all practical purposes, a province of Soviet
Russia.
In fact, it has become fashionable to go
to Russia. Those who do not go there are
not "in." I cannot imagine what they are
"in" or not "in" but they all went to Russia
this summer like bees swarming together.
This 'winter, we shall be hearing all about
Russia from 10-day experts who saw the
Red Square in Moscow, the Nevsky in Lenin-
grad, and whatever it is they can see in
Kiev-possibly the ancient cathedral. They
will all tell of the wonders of the one big
Gimbel's basement. They will say that all
Russians smile when they see Americans. It
looks more like a belly laugh watching the
Controversy Still Waxes Warm Over
Khrushchev's Visit
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF }
HON. ROBERT C. BYRD
OF WEST VIRGINIA
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
Monday, August 24, 1959
Mr. BYRD of West Virginia. Mr.
President, in the past few days, I have
made several comments to express just
how I feel about the prospect of Premier
Khrushchev's visit to America. I have
tried to emphasize that I, for one, do not
wish to extend any festive welcome and
great show of comradeship for this in-
ternational tyrant.
As a sort of footnote to my previous
remarks, and to illustrate that, quite a
number of other Americans feel as I
do in this respect, I would like to have
printed in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD a
group of letters to the editor which were
published in the August 17 issue of the
Washington Evening Star. I ask unan-
imous consent that they may be printed
in the Appendix of the RECORD.
There being no objection, the letters
were ordered to be printed in the
RECORD, as follows:
However, that wall is realistically rubble CONTROVERSY STILL WAXES WARM OVER
now that war must be conducted by air- KN:RusHcHEV's VISIT
borne bombs, rockets, and missiles., Never- It is surprising that few people question
theless, it has been characteristic of Russian the assumption that Khrushchev is In many
history that what the Russians take, they ways ignorant of conditions in the United
never give up willingly. Russia has been States. Harriman returned from Russia stat-
like a rolling snowball, gathering size as it ing that he found the Soviet leader badly
rolled on and on. informed; NIXON took up the same line; then
the President said he would like to show
Levittown to Khrushchev so he can see that
the U.S. housing exhibit in Moscow is typi-
cal. A little thought ought to convince
Americans that Khrushchev cannot be so un-
informed. Consider the size of the Soviet
Embassy staff in Washington; consider the
mass of reports that are surely being sent to
Moscow; consider the ease with which infor-
mation of such a nature can be obtained in
the United States from personal inspection,
newspapers, official sources. Khrushchev's
purpose is quite transparent. He wants to
minimize the effect of the housing exhibit
on the Soviet people, make them think
Americans are not as far ahead of them as
is actually the case. How Khrushchev must
chuckle when he sees how this simple ruse
has pulled the wool over some eyes.
H. C. NEAL.
Khrushchev is coming. Where are the Paul
Reveres? One if by land, and two if by sea,
and three-the manifesto calls for us to be
brought down as a free nation.
With some, I think of the peoples of the
world who will see pictures of the hammer
and sickle flying over our land. Why don't
we keep the flags after Khrushchev leaves so
as to have them ready when he comes again
as victor instead of as visitor?
I am one citizen of this country who does
not wish to see diplomatic courtesy extended
to this man who has bragged of our forth-
coming demise.
BETTY M. BONNF.TT.
Premier Khrushchev's visit and President
Eisenhower's return visit should not be con-
sidered as "missions of peace," but merely
as opportunities to examine more thoroughly
and closely conflicting world policies.
To interpret these informal talks as ges-
tures of good will would be a misconcep-
tion. However, it is hoped that Americans
will pledge their full-fledged support to the
President and demonstrate to Premier Khru-
shchev that we are peace-loving people, edu-
cated, informed, and enlightened as to the
international variances at stake.
SUZANNE R. STALLING.
All the way from Union Station
And along the city's parks
The crowds sing their hosannas
For the salesman of Karl Marx.
The day is warm and sunny
And brimming with good will
But in J. Edgar's dwelling
There's an autumnal chill.
He looks out of his window
And he views with jaundiced eye
The hammer and the sickle
Beneath the summer sky.
But then, let's all be jolly
And let no one frown
For Khrushchev's in the White House
And the Reds are on the town.
HYMEN R. KAPLAN.
We see that for Premier Khrushchev's first
American visit it is planned to fly the ham-
Iner and sickle flag from Washington lamp.-
posts. In his plan to bury us, we can only
assume that he will hang statesmen, Con-
gressmen, and reporters from lampposts on
his second visit to Washington.
JURI BARTHOLD.
It was a shock to me, and I believe it was
to the average citizen, when our President
gave out the news that he had invited a
criminal like Khrushchev to become a guest
of the United States. How low have we
sunk when our Chief Executive can shake
hands with and entertain a man who has
murdered thousands of people and has
boasted that he will bury us?
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