UNITED STATES TIES ITS OWN HANDS IN MEETING SOVIET OIL OFFENSIVE

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Approved For Release 2004/06/24: CIA-RDP64B00346R000100220080-3 1962 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE ady, it is my convinced judgment that the committee proposal is more esesntial than ever before in the fields of con- sumer frauds, quality, prices and pro- ductivity. The consumer has a burning interest in these fields which needs to be separately represented. So I hope very much that the Presi- dent of the United States will show an interest in real action and back the idea of a select committee on consum- ers or give us proposed legislation to provide a proper basis fora consumers' council in Government. There must be an area of Government in which the consumers' interests may adequately function as an active force in what is done by way of legislation as well as in the executive department. Mr. President, I ask unanimous con. sent to have printed at this point in the RECORD an editorial published in today's issue of the New York Times on the subject, and a newsstory upon the same subject. There being no objection, the editorial and article were ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows: [From the New York Times, July 19, 19621 A BONE FOR CONSUMERS The appointment by President Kennedy of a Consumers' Advisory Council so close to the start of the congressional campaign is bound to provoke some skepticism. The President expressed much interest in consumers in his 1960 election drive, but he waited until he had been in office a year and a half before naming this body. The pro forma interest the administration has displayed in follow- ing up the virtuous but somewhat vaporous proposals contained in Mr. Kennedy's omni- bus message on consumer problems several months ago indicates little prospect of force- ful new' protection of consumer interests, PRESIDENT NAMES CONSUMER PANEL-DEAN AT CORNELL IS CHAIRMAN OF ADVISORY COUNCIL WASHINGTON, July 18.-President Kennedy announced today the appointment of a 12- member Consumers Advisory council to give broad consideration to the consumers' needs and point of view. He named Dr. Helen G. Canoyer, dean of the School of Home Economics at Cornell University, to be its chairman. Establishment of the council fulfills a campaign pledge made by Mr. Kennedy in 1960. The pledge called for a White House as- sistant on, consumer affairs. The unit an- nounced today is a modified version of that and, in a way, more extensive because it sets up a- consumer network throughout the executive branch. The new council will report to the Council of Economic Advisers. Membership is not a full-time position. Compensation will be $50 a day, when actually employed, and expenses. The group will be assisted by a small staff and by liaison officers designated by 22 de- partments and agencies. The liaison work will be an addition to the regular duties of these departmental and agency employees. Six of the new council appointees are women, six are men. Eight are Democrats, two are Republicans. Two others, including the chairman, recorded no party affiliation. The members follow: Miss Helen G. Gan- oyer, David Angevine, Dr. Persia Campbell, Stephen McKenzie du Brul, Jr., Mrs. John G. Lee, Dr. Edward S. Lewis, Walter F. Mon- dale, Dr. Richard L. D. Morse, Mrs. Helen E. Nelson, Sylvia Porter, Dr, Caroline Ware, and Dr. Colston E. Warne. Later today, Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg announced the appointment of Mrs, Aryness Joy Wickens as the Labor De- partment's liaison officer to the. Consumers Council. Mrs. Wickens is a specialist in UNITED STATES TIES ITS OWN HANDS IN MEETING SOVIET OIL OFFENSIVE Mr. KEATING. Mr. President, on Monday I disclosed on the Senate floor the fact that an important study on the impact of Soviet oil exports on the free world was being held up within the Gov- ernment by rigid and legalistic interpre- tations of our conflict-of-interest laws. At that time I warned that unless some effort was made to bring our cold war strategy into line with the trade threat which the free world is facing, we would be tying our own hands. The New York Times this morning reveals very clearly that the Soviets are still busily pushing their own advantage, while in the United States the chairman of the National Petroleum Council, a quasi- governmental agency, has resigned as a result of fundamental differences in the effort to meet the Soviet threat. Mr. President, one of the most im- portant projects which the National Pe- troleum Council was working on in co- operation with the Interior Department is a detailed and authoritative study of Soviet oil tactics. Up to this point our Government has developed no policy to meet this threat. We have not even had complete data on the extent of the threat. The purpose of the NPC study was to fill this gap and to discuss the oil industries of all the Communist coun- tries including China and their needs and their present and potential impact throughout the rest of the world. We had very impressive testimony about the huge oil reserves in Russia before our Committee on Internal Secu- rity. Reliable reports indicate that the NPC report, a draft of which has already been completed by the working subcom- mittee, is nearly 600 pages long plus charts and addenda. Yet, Mr. President, incredible as it may seem, this report, as well as the other activities of the Na- tional Petroleum Council have now been blocked. The Soviet oil report has been held up for a month already. Mr. President, it is impossible for the United States to meet the worldwide Soviet threat under archaic concepts which prevent our own Government from using the brains, ability, and know-how of private enterprise to meet Soviet challenges. Particularly in the area of trade, it is vital that businessmen who actually conduct the trade be permitted to study, discuss, and make recommen- dations as to overall Government policy direction. It is obviously impossible for the members of the National Petroleum Council, most of which are important oil company executives, to be barred from dealing with the problems that are touched on in this report when they work in their private capacities. This would mean that these executives who have worked on this report may be unable to serve their own companies in meeting the Soviet oil problem directly. Mr. President, the Communists will not wait while we quarrel over our own laws and regulations. The newspaper this morning also carries a story of Soviet activities in this field. We can be sure that the Soviets are not idle when the free world is squabbling. Tass, the So- viet news agency, has just carried an interview with the head of the Oil Export Administration, an interview designed to quiet European fears and encourage European countries to take more Soviet oil. Mr. Gurov, who is the head of the Oil Export Administration, has noted that last year Soviet oil accounted for only 8 percent of the total oil consump- tion in Common Market countries. He said the percentage was not expected to rise in the next few years, as both Soviet exports and West European consump- tion continue to increase. Let us watch it. It will rise in the next few years. Mr. Gurov is making an inaccurate statement. It has been rising. It is going to continue to rise. It is going far beyond 8 percent unless we, with our allies, establish some co- ordinated policy. Mr. Gurov also said that the Soviet Union would not try to exert political pressure on its oil pur- chasers. Furthermore, it is also reported in a separate report that the sale of Soviet oil "at dumping prices" in Western Europe will be one of the main subjects at the Fourth Arab Petroleum Congress in November. The foresighted chair- man of the Lebanese delegation to the Congress, Emile S. Bustani, has already warned the Arab countries that Soviet oil exports will hurt them seriously. Sales in Western Europe by the western oil companies of Arab-produced oil bring big royalties and revenues to the Arab states. Soviet sales cut seriously into the Arab market. In considering the. Soviet oil menace, let us not forget the words of Soviet Premier Khrushchev. I hope I have not made a nuisance of myself in speaking on a number of occasions on this subject, but I feel very deeply on this matter, and it is a major concern to our Nation. As I say, we should not forget the words of Mr. Khrushchev, the Soviet Premier. He should know, if anyone knows, what his country is trying to do. He has said: We value trade least for economic reasons and most for political reasons. It is time for the executive branch ' of the Government to wake up to the extent of the Soviet oil threat, and not tie its own hands through unnecessary and un- realistic conflict of interest interpreta- tions. Mr. JAVITS. Mr. President, will the Senator yield? Mr. KEATING. I yield to my col- league, Mr. JAVITS. There is one thing my colleague from New York has not men- tioned. The Senator and I have both been very much interested in this whole East-West trade problem and have Approved For Release 2004/06/24 CIA-RDP64B00346R000100220080-3 Approved For Release 2004/06/24: CIA-RDP64B00346R000100220080-3 13154 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -SENATE' July 19 worked together on the Export Control the Communist empire, and to demon- information in the Department on these Act. Lrefer to the antitrust laws, which strate the extent of Soviet intolerance matters. The letter does not mention, also, as well as the conflict-of-interest before the whole world. for instance, that Jews are being ousted laws, have a considerable effect: on this My inquiry about the latest trend of continuously from their jobs and even situation. developments was first made to the U.S. their homes for mysterious reasons. It I wish to call attention to the fact Department of State in December 1961. does not mention that there is but one that the Banking and Currency Com- I called attention to the serious prob- Yeshiva left existing in the entire Union mittee will soon be considering some lem of Communist persecution of Rus- of Soviet Socialist Republics. Moscow's possibilities along this line, related to sian Jewry under the guise of routing Yaad-Yeshiva, headed by Rabbi Yehuda section 708 of the Defense Production out black marketeers and other so-called Leib Levin is the last theological semi- Act, which permits the Attorney Gen- economic criminals. Under this cruel nary allowed to operate and then only eral to exempt certain arrangements program a number of Jewish citizens under such nerve shattering conditions from the antitrust laws in the national have been executed or sentenced to long that those who enter must be specially interest. I should like to call this to prison terms. It has become increas- prepared for the consequences of their the attention of my colleague from New ingly clear that the real aims of this action. It is easy for Mr. Khrushchev York and to the attention of all Mem- phony economic campaign are the elimi- to maintain that Soviet Jewry is being hers of the Senate, so that if they have nation of Judaism in the Soviet Union treated like every one else, but these any questions or any views or evidence and, insofar as possible, of all organized and many other facts clearly dispute his which ',they would like to offer upon the religion. The situation. in Russia now is reasoning. This intensive campaign to subject as it- relates to this matter of becoming reminiscent of the pogrom stifle the practice of Judaism in the meeting Soviet competition in trade, the conditions of the prerevolutionary era. Soviet Union is intolerable, Mr. Presi- Banking and Currency Committee will As the wave of anti-Semitic terror has dent, and must be stopped. be hearing evidence on these issues as mounted, many letters. have come into Mr. President, this letter from the they relate to pending amendments to my office protesting these activities of Department has supplied the public with the Defense Production Act. the Soviet Union and asking what the some new information, but it is far from Mr. KEATING. Mr. President, I ap- United States can do to counteract them, complete. What disturbs me even more, preciate the remarks of my colleague. More than once, I have taken the ques- however, is that apparently next to noth- I am aware of the fine work which he tion up with the Department of State ing is being done to protest these activi- has done in this field. My understanding requesting more detailed information ties. On March 14, 1962, I called to the is that in this instance the holdup of and urging more vigorous protests on attention of this body a letter which I the National Petroleum Council study is these activities. had received from Assistant Secretary specifically based on a failure to come to The latest reply I have received from Dutton in December 1961, answering grips with the problem of conflict-of-in- the Assistant Secretary of State, Fred- questions similar to the ones I posed terest, regulations for members of ad- erick Dutton, discloses two new pieces of last week, and I compared that letter visory, groups. That is the reason why evidence in the Soviet anti-Semitic with the text of a memorandum which this Soviet oil report has been held up campaign. It reveals what I had sus- had come into my office 4 months later, in the Department of the Interior for pected for some time, namely, that the purporting to be the "latest information" about a month. I first brought up and Communist's long-term antireligion cru- on the subject. I was shocked to dis- discussed the month-long delay in a sade has, in fact, been heightened in the cover, as I told this body then, that the statement on the Senate floor on Mon- last few months. The Soviet publica- letter and the memorandum were virtu- day. Since then, the resignation of the tion, Party Line, in an article of May 9, ally word-for-word copies of each other. head of the NPC has underscored the 1962, states that: And I am dismayed to report now, that urgent need for a reconsideration of this The Soviet Union has stepped up its anti- after another 4 months, nothing new aspect of our conflict-of-interest regula- religious activities since the 22d party (con- has been added by way of positive action. tions. gress) and social organizations have recently About all that the Department of State Mr. JAVITS. The Senator is properly strengthened what is described as "scientific can offer to those of us that are seriously for the religious propaganda"; that religious sects concerned about this problem, is that stating the reported reason have been dissolved and that there has been President Eisenhower and Premier holdup of this report, as referred to in an increase in the number of people who Khrushchev had anti-Semitism on the the New York Times today. However, have renounced religious beliefs. agEnda of their talks at Camp David in under in the a report ireport companies of a may n;y activity He further states that: 1960.. Nothifig new has apparently been ately run afoul of the antitrust laws. I Allegedly at the request of former believ- done in the last 2 years. was merely pointing out that this is a ers, many churches and prayer houses have The recent appointment of Veniamin two-stage operation. The Senate has been closed. E. Dymshits, a Jew, as Chairman of the properly dealt with the conflict-of-inter- The criminal code now authorizes the State Planning Committee and Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union may be de- considered stage, which, incidentally,. we have prosecution of those engaged in religious P emi to quiet Soviet on the mounting considered to some extent in the National activities, or even those who simply be- signed ism some Soviet anti-Semi- on Policy Subcommittee of the Committee lieve in God. oversea criticism t i-Semi- . But Dymshits, spi the there religious heritage on Government Operations, as one hard Soviet newspaper accounts have given tism. But tic t nut that faces us. I was also pointing to prominence to Soviet citizens with Jew- of Mr. is no evidence a problem which is a corollary problem ish names allegedly involved in illegal that he has practiced the Jewish religion , is a prac ew sh rnd and is being considered by another com- commercial activities. The State De- himself; in fact, Communist and a member of ac- mittee of the Senate. partment report indicates that the tive Committee, he has undoubtedly March issue of a prominent Soviet mag- foresworn the faith of his fathers. undoubtedly ANTI-SEMITISM azine, in exposing economic activities in haps also his appointment may be de- the region of Frunze involving 54 offend- n: signed to tother Soviet Jews with MKEATING. Mr. President, for ers, listed the names of 33 persons, 15 of preferment as a with many months I have been shocked and whom had identifiable Jewish names. the slure igned t ward for r of tempt p ligiou political papoeasy. discouraged by the continuing anti-Se- The government appears to be attempt- Mr. Precedent , in other times men. have miticactivities in the Soviet Union. Per- ing to link historic Russian anti-Semit- desert the Lord for securtion, both official and unofficial, of ism to its economic campaign, by these been r that In not they the will desert to desert Soviet Union L the Lothe! rd, dan- members of the Jewish religion is, ac- tactics and others. Detailed coverage is beewarned cording to all reports, being stepped up given in the Soviet ress to criminals ger is to a new crescendo of religious discrimi- bearing Jewish names, and the attack is for Mammon, but for Marx. nation and nationalistic racialism. It is carried into every facet of daily life. I admit that there is only a narrow not enough for the U.S. Government to This letter from the State Department, range of diplomatic action possible, given express polite private regrets. There is however, has failed to mention many the nature of this problem, but our diplo- a real need to expose Soviet hypocrisy other aspects of the Russian anti-Sem- mats may have not even explored this on the subject, to reveal that prejudice itic campaign in his letter. I sincerely limited area thoroughly. In the last 8 and discrimination are rife throughout hope that this does not indicate lack of months, I have received three separate Approved For Release 2004/06/24: CIA-RDP64B00346R000100220080-3 Approved For Release 2004/06/24: CIA-RDP64B00346R000100220080-3 1962 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -SENATE communications from the Department of tendencies has led to anti-Semitic perse- state on this subject. The last is as In- eution. conclusive as the first. The Department has not even redrafted the form letter. Whole paragraphs are identical in each of them. Mr. President, the perfect opportunity now exists for the United States to exert some leadership on this very serious problem. In a short time, the Senate will be asked to give its advice and con- sent to the nomination of a new Ambas- sador to the Soviet Union. And shortly after that, our new envoy, Mr. Foy Koh- ler, an experienced career diplomat, will present his credentials in Moscow and begin a round of diplomatic consulta- tions. I therefore urge the administration specifically to instruct the new American Ambassador to the Soviet Union to place high on his agenda of talks with the Rus- sians consideration of the problem which I have been discussing here. I urge our Ambassador be instructed to exert all the influence he has at his command to express the vital concern of the Ameri- can people in this problem and to exer- cise all the moral suasion possible to bring about some amelioration of the conditions now existing for the Soviet Jew. Now is the time to act. The moment is here as evidence of anti-Semitic cam- paigns mount day by day, and as anew ., some minimum amount of food, clothing, American envoy prepares to assume his and education. duties in the Soviet capital. To act firm- ly on this problem as exemplified in the North Africa continues, Mr. President. eSoviet Union a served a i prec- of of To some extent, we have come to expect or he he nations the world m, a notice sch ed d on tolerate the tacitly ly en- the birth pangs of a new nation to be courage anti-Semitism within their accompanied by trouble and hardship. borders, oaat the United States is con- But in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco, ce, an d that con- the Jews have had to bear a dispropor- all he its tehe energies and tionate share of the hardship. Latent prepared pared to and bring the fluence to t bear bring on the United solution of t States in- e is anti-Semitism has flared and, as in the problem. past, the Jews have become the scape- Already we have seen enough recent goats for impatient nationalists. evidence of a revival of anti-Semitism in With these recent outrages in mind, other parts of the world to suspect that Mr. President, I think it would help, not the Russian example or Soviet influence harm, the situation for our new Am- may have had its effects outside the geo- bassador in the Soviet Union to make graphic borders of the Communist em- strong representations on this issue early pire. in his mission. To do this is in accord- In Algeria, for instance, the plight of ance with American principles. It is an the Jews-as of all non-Moslems-stands act of very real concern and importance in striking contrast to the worldwide not only to the millions of American celebration which has been made at the Jews who are deeply troubled by the fate news of the independent Algerian state. of their religious brethren in Russia and It is a shame and a crime that suffering elsewhere, but also to the 180 million and presecution of, a portion of these Americans of all races and religions who supposedly "free" people should be al- believe in the world of brotherhood, the lowed to cloud the unanimous joy and re- dignity of man, and the liberties which lief over the end of the long and bloody have given our Nation its enduring war with France. strength. It is a moral obligation which But cloud it, it does. The new AI- jI ^sincerely trust our Government will protestations, begun a campaign of so-called nationalization which will ef- fectively force the Algerian Jewish com- munity either to leave the country or to shut itself off from the world in a gloomy and hopeless ghetto. We are all fa- miliar with the themes of nationalism- a return to national customs and lan- guage, the growth of a national middle class, association with other newly inde- Particularly cruel in Algeria-with about 135,000 Jews-is the fact that a government which should be represent- ing all of its people may be joined with the Pan-Arab movement in a campaign against the State of Israel and its so- called -Zionist intrigues. What ap- pears to be happening in Algeria, Mr. President, is a sinister distortion of that high-sounding slogan for national inde- pendence-instead of "Algeria for the Algerians," we have "Algeria for the Moslems." The result is racial discrimination and persecution of serious proportions. Thousands of Jews are fleeing the coun- try every day; Jewish communal life in Algiers has practically disappeared, and there are many Instances recorded of street battles between the FLN and Jew- ish citizens, many instances of suffering and death. I might point out, Mr. President, that the situation in Algeria, bad as it is, com- pares favorably with the situation in other parts of North Africa where Jews have been consigned to restricted ghet- tos, and considered far inferior even to the lowest of Moslems. Many of these Jews are effectively shut off from the rest of the world, dependent upon. the THE CORRECTION OF EXPENSE AC- COUNT ABUSES Mr. GORE. Mr. President, in a mes- sage to Congress on April 20, 1961, Presi- dent Kennedy stated that "widespread abuses have developed through the use of the expense account. Indeed, expense account living has become a byword in the American scene." The Secretary of the Treasury, in mak- ing specific recommendations to the Ways and Means Committee, on May 3, 1961, for corrective legislation in the expense account area, stated that an audit had recently been made by the Internal Revenue Service, and "although this audit covered only 38,000 returns, it shows that these returns claimed de- ductions totaling $5.7 million for club dues, $2 million for theater tickets and similar amusements, over $1 million for hunting lodges and fishing camps, $2.6 million for yachts, and $11.5 million for business gifts. Most significantly, the audit shows that only a small portion of these expenses can be disallowed un- der existing law." In view of the obvious abuses and the Secretary's statement that existing law does not deal adequately with the prob- lem, it would seem only reasonable to suppose that the Congress would move decisively and promptly to give the In- ternal Revenue Service the tools It needs to protect the public interest against these widespread abuses. H.R.10650, the tax bill, as passed by the House, dealt with the expense ac- count problem, but somewhat tenderly. I was disappointed that the provision was not a stronger one. But my disappointment has been dou- bled by the action of the Finance Com- mittee of the Senate on this same subject. Not only has the Finance Com- mittee failed to follow the recommenda- tion of the President and the Secretary of the Treasury to amend the law to treat effectively with this tax abuse, but, even worse, the committee adopted an expense account amendment which is far worse than the inadequate provision of the House-passed bill. Indeed, it may be worse than the existing law under which the widespread abuses occur. This amendment was described in the committee by its author as "the prudent man" amendment.. In argument against it I asked for the dictionary and read to the committee the following and, I think, appropriate definition of the word "prudent": Habitually careful to avoid practical er- rors and to follow the most profitable and politic course; especially attentive to one's own interest; worldly wise-as "A prudent man forese:eth the evil and hideth himself." I have personal affection for each member of the Senate Finance Commit- tee, but much to my regret my concep- tion of the public interest is frequently at sharp variance with the action of the majority of the committee; that is surely true in this instance as well as in many others. It will be my purpose, therefore, to join with other of my colleagues who are interested in correcting some of the more obvious and wholly unjustified abuses which now exist in our Internal Revenue Code in an earnest endeavor to rewrite the tax reform bill on the floor of the Senate at such time as it may be called up by the leadership for action. It is not easy, I realize, to write tax legislation on the Senate floor, but in my view In this Instance it cannot be avoided. The effort must be made, and I trust it will be successful. Approved For Release 2004/06/24: CIA-RDP64B00346R000100220080-3 Approved For Release 2004/06/24: CIA-RDP64B00346R000100220080-3' 13156 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -- SENATE July 19 FOREIGN ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1962- CONFERENCE REPORT The Senate resumed the consideration of the report of the committee of confer- ence on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendment of the House to the bill (S. 2996) to amend further the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, and for other purposes. Mrs. SMITH of Maine. Mr. President, recently the Senate marched strongly up the hill to express its opposition to aid to Communist countries and adopted`an amendment by the Senior Senator from Ohio to bar such aid to Communist countries. But the next day the Senate rather timidly marched back down the hill and greatly diluted that action with a nullifying amendment. Whether one is for aid to Communist Yugoslavia and Communist; Poland- and neutralist India-or not, I think most everyone would acknowledge the extremely good sense expressed in an editorial in the July 13, 1962, issue of the Wall Street journal entitled "A Weak Political Tool" and .1 ask unani- mous consent that it be placed in the RECORD for everyone to read-not only to read but to study. Ithink it puts the finger on one of the greatest weaknesses in the policies and administration of our foreign aid pro- gram. 'There being no objection, the editorial was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows: A WEAK POLITICAL TOOL The congressional criticism of foreign aid this year centers on three countries: Poland, Yugoslavia, and India. Each case tells a good deal, we think, about what is wrong with the aid program as a whole. Poland and Yugoslavia, of course, are Communist countries, the one a Soviet satellite, the other not. Whether they get any more aid, and if so how much, is now up to a House conference committee. To some critics the fact that they are Communist should automatically bar them from aid consideration. But that is not the central question; It is, or should be, whether any significant U.S. interest is served by the aid. In the beginning the an:.wer may well have been affirmative. After Tito of Yugo- slavia broke with Stalin in 1948, it was in the American interest to have him remain in- dependent, and American aid helped serve that purpose. Somewhat similarly, after Poland's Gomulka wrested some internal autonomy from Khrushchev In the wake of a :near-revolt in 1956, it seemed sensible to try to help him keep it. Divisions and tur- nwil in the Communist camp are almost by definition gains for us. But because something may have been useful at one time is no excuse for doing it forever. Any semi-independence Poland en- joys today Isn't benefiting the United States and probably has nothing to do with whether U.S. aid is granted or not. In the cold war arena, Yugoslavia has become prac- tically indistinguishable from the Soviet Union. In each case any new aid would sim- ply be a handout, with no clear function from the viewpoint of American interest. I And this trap is what the United States has fallen into all over. By letting people get the impression that the aid is to be a permanent subsidy, we rob it of flexibility and effectiveness as a political tool. Certainly that is the sorry circumstance in India. The aid, in our opinion, should not be terminated merely because anyone gets mad at Nehru for his constant carping at this country, his "neutralism" or even his buying of Soviet Migs if he decides to do that. As everywhere else, the criterion should be what U.S. Interest the aid is aid- ing. On that basis. It would be hard indeed to justify the very considerable amount of aid the United States is giving India. Certainly it cannot be argued that the help has kept India from going Communist. India has not gone Communist because enough Indians op- pose It despite Nehru's philosophical affec- tion for the ideology, because the Communist Party in India is not strong enough, and because neither the Soviet Union nor Red China has yet tried to take the whole nation by force. The Chinese border incursions have done more than United States aid to make Indians anti-Communist. We are aware that the further argument is that India must be aided so as to strengthen its economy and hence its demo- cratic political institutions. Unfortunately, the aid may have done more harm than good. Today India Is in deplorable economic and financial shape, not least because it is try- ing to run a socialist economy which the U.S. aid has inevitably helped to entrench. This kind of thing is also being duplicated around the world. The truth is that we are trying to do too much and too often we are doing the wrong things. A real reform of foreign aid would have to cover a great deal. But surely its be- ginning should be a case-by-case analysis of aid as it affects the American interest. And just as surely the beginning of aid wisdom must be to make it perfectly clear that the help is limited not only In scope but dura- tion. The U.S. Government has already waited far too long to make that beginning. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion of the Senator from Oregon [Mr. MORSE] to postpone the further consideration of the conference report until August 1. The yeas and nays have been ordered, and the clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk called the roll. Mr. HUMPHREY. I announce that the senator from Virginia [Mr. BYRD], the Senator from South Carolina [Mr. JOHNSTON], the Senator from Louisiana [Mr. Lone], the Senator from Oklahoma [Mr. MONRONEYI, and the Senator from Utah [Mr. Mossl are absent on official business. I further announce that the Senator from New Mexico [Mr. CHAvEz], and the Senator from Arkansas [Mr. FULSRIGHT] are necessarily absent. I further announce that, if present and voting, the Senator from Oklahoma [Mr. MONRONEY] would vote "nay." Mr. KUCHEL. I announce that the- Senator from Colorado [Mr. ALLOTT] is absent on official business. The Senator from Utah [Mr. BEN- NETT], the Senator from Arizona [Mr. GOLDWATER], and the Senator from Iowa [Mr. HICKENLOOP33R] are necessarily ab- sent. If present and voting, the Senator from Colorado (Mr. ALLOTTI, the Senator from Utah [Mr. BENNETT), and the Sen- ator from Arizona [Mr. GOLDWATER] would each vote "yea." The result was announced-yeas 41, nays 48, as follows: No. 122 Leg.] YEAS-41 Anderson Dworshak Murphy Bartlett Eastland Neuberger Beall Ellender Pearson Bible Ervin Proxmire Boggs Fong Robertson Bottum Gruening Russell Bush Hruska Scott Butler Jordan Talmadge Capehart Kuchel Thurmond Carlson Lausche Tower Cotton McClellan Wiley Curtis Miller Williams, Del. Dirksen Morse Young, Ohio Dodd Mundt NAYS-48 Aiken Hill Morton Burdick Holland Muskie Byrd, W. Va. Humphrey Pastore Cannon Jackson Pell Carroll Javits Prouty Case Keating Randolph Church Kefauver Saltonstall Clark Kerr Smathers Cooper Long, Mo. Smith, Mass. Douglas Long, Hawaii Smith, Maine Engle Magnuson Sparkman Gore Mansfield Stennis Hart McCarthy Symington Hartke McGee Williams, N.J. Hayden McNamara Yarborough Hickey Metcalf Young, N. Dak. NOT VOTING-11 Allott Fulbright Long, Ira; Bennett Goldwater Monroney Byrd, Va. Hickenlooper Moss Chavez Johnston So Mr. MORSE'S motion was rejected. Mr. SPARKMAN, Mr. President, I move that the vote by which the mo- tion was rejected be reconsidered. Mr. HUMPHREY. Mr. President, I move to lay on the table the motion to reconsider. The motion to lay on the table was agreed to. Mr. STENNIS obtained the floor. Mr. DIRKSEN. Mr. President, will the Senator from Mississippi yield, in order that I may propound an inquiry? Mr. STENNIS. I yield for that pur- pose. LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM Mr. DIRKSEN. Mr. President, I should like to ask the majority leader about the program for the remainder of today. I understood that the conference report on the welfare bill was to be taken up next. Is that correct? Mr. MANSFIELD. That is correct. I do not know how much longer the Sen- ate will proceed on the conference re- port on the foreign-aid bill; but it is anticipated that following the comple- tion of action on that conference report, the Senate will then take up the confer- ence report on the welfare bill. I do not know how long the consideration of that report will take. Mr. DIRKSEN. Very well. I should like to ask the distinguished Senator from Oklahoma [Mr. Keaa]-assuming that he will submit the conference re- port on the welfare bill--whether he an- ticipates that its consideration will take very long. Mr. KERR. I hope not. Of course, I cannot presume to have knowledge of what other Senators may do; but I hope Approved For Release 2004/06/24: CIA-RDP64B00346R000100220080-3