BLOODY ROAD TO POWER

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purpose if they can make it do so. If
President: "Oh, you can't do that. The
we ignore or take lightly the political conse-
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the surplus, (2) to get Some Red money, and
Art Hoppe in England
All of these are good capitalistic motives co L Lninx uxrord and Cambridge are safe.
? * ? But they do overlook all political They have that enduring quality of all Brit-
EXTENSION OF REMARKS lab Institutions. Which endure, if you ask
consequences of trade with the Communists, or me, because nobody can understand them
and that is dangerous at best, disastrous well enough to abolish them. Including the
at worst. HON. J. ARTHUR YOUNGER British.
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armer we know who
hasn't overlooked the political repercussions
stemming from wheat sales to the Soviets.
Such repercussions occurred amazingly right
on his farm on Tuesday, October 1, 1963.
That was the day that bread rationing was
begun In Moscow. It was the day that Khru-
shchev made a speech, and it was the day our
farmer acquaintance decided to sell his soy-
beans (not wheat), How all these things
got linked together in a way that made our
friend fighting mad is something every Amer-
ican farmer should think about.
First of all, the farmer called his local
elevator and asked what it was paying for
beans. The answer was $2.48 a bushel. The
farmer said, "I'll be right in with a load,
and pay my bill, too."
In Moscow, U.S.S.R., about that time, Pre-
mier Khrushchev told his people: "If we use
bread economically, the resources we have
will be sufficient for the normal supply of
the population." This word, passed along
like lightning to American grain traders,
meant to them that U.S. wheat might not
be needed at all. It scared them so much, in
fact, that those contacted by our friend's
country elevator withdrew all their bids on
soybeans. By the time our friend got to his
elevator, asked for instructions to dump, his
elevator wasn't buying any beans at any
price. Not one bushel could he sell them.
From the time he left his farm to the time
he got to town, his market had evaporated.
"Why?" he demanded.
"Khrushchev says he doesn't want our
wheat," was the reply.
And so, logically or Illogically, depending
on how you view it, the supersenaitive soy-
bean market momentarily went all to pieces.
Our friend trucked his beans home, where
he waited for the market to recover. He
still wants to sell beans but is not one bit
inclined to sell wheat to the Communists.
"It's not that simple," he says. "If we sell
them wheat in a regular manner, it would be
all right. But every time we do something
with those Communists, they make monkeys
out of us. They made a monkey out of me
on Tuesday. They're making monkeys out of
our Government people right now. And the
next thing you know, we won't be giving
them permission to buy our grain. No, air.
we will be begging them to buy it. And then
they will make it look as if they did us a big
favor if they take it.
"Khrushchev planned the whole thing. He
knew after four crop failures, he couldn't
stand a fifth without buying free world
grain. He did us the favor of signing a test
ban treaty to soften us up. He dangled a
wheat dollar In front of us and bo ht what
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or CALSFORNIA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, November 7, 1963
Mr. YOUNGER. Mr. Speaker, one of
our favorite columnists does get around
the world and makes noteworthy obser-
vations wherever he may be.
I believe the readers of the RECORD
will find his comments during a recent
visit to England of interest and quite
amusing :
WILL OxrOaD LASE ITS FACULTIES?
(By Arthur Hoppe)
OXFORD, ENGLAND.-The Labor Party, which
is favored to win next year's elections, Is
vaguely thinking about abolishing Oxford
and Cambridge as the peculiarly British
institutions they are and making them into
"more normal universities." Like "Oxford
Normal" and "Cambridge Normal," I sup-
pose-
So naturally I hustled up here to see what
was going to be abolished. And after a
day's tour my sympathies lie with the Labor
Party. Or at least with the Labor Party
official who might have to come up here to
abolish the place. I can see him now, a
plain-talking Yorkshireman probably, as he
marches Into the offices, say, of the president
of Magdalen College.
Official: "Nice college you've got here, sir.
Bit of a shame to see old Magdalen go."
President: "We pronounce It 'Mawdlin,'
old boy. And the demies will be sorry to bear
of your plans. We've got about 50 now, you
know. All topnotch scholars."
Official: "All studying bard in their class-
rooms now that the Michaelmas term has
started. eh?"
President: "'Mikklemusa ' And we don't
have classrooms. None of the colleges do, In-
cluding All Souls. Which doesn't have any
students either."
Official: "Odd bit, that. Well, if you'll
kindly call the presidents of the colleges
together-"
President: "You mean the 21 old colleges,
probably; sorry, but only 4 have presidents.
Two are run by masters, two by rectors, three
by provosts, four by principals, one by a dean
and five by wardens, Including Wadham (pro-
nounced 'Waddum') which to run by the
wahden of Waddum. Of course that does
not include the three new foundations, five
permanent private halls, five societies of
women students and Nuffield College, which'
was only founded in 1937 so we haven't fig-
ured out yet what it is precisely."
he needed first in Canada. Next, like a Offietal: "Now look here, sir; enough of
smart buyer, he said he didn't want it any- that. We plan to abolish this here university
way. Now, when he permits us to sell him and-"
some wheat, well let him have It at a 20- President: "Oh, the university. You're in
percent discount and pay for it like a new the wrong place, old boy. You'll want to
car over 18 months. Khrushchev then will see the bedels"
effectively have control of our farm markets, Official: "The beetles?"
and grain dealers will dance at his command. -President: "Righto. The bedels of the
Deal with the Communists? Not me," he Hebdomadal Council. I suppose you might
said. say they run the university."
What our friend was saying, in other Official: "Now we're getting somewhere.
words, Is that Communists use economics ,Well hsre the beetles demolish the colleges
as a political weapon. Every trade serves a and-"
)From the San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 29,
1963J
WE AMEEICANs ARE UNQUESTIONABLE
(By Arthur Hoppe)
WILTON PARK, ENGLAND.-It's high time I
got back to telling you what an international
conference Is like. And you'd like It. It's a
lovely life.
We have breakfast at 8:30; read the news-
papers; have tea; attend a 2-hour morning
session; eat lunch; chat, stroll, or play ten-
nis; have tea; attend a 2-hour afternoon
session; eat dinner; attend a 2-hour evening
session; and chat and drink until 11. It's
not only pleasant, but stimulating. Because
if you've never attended an international
conference before, you've got a lot to learn.
Like how to ask questions.
Nothing's more important. You see, they
send these truly brilliant experts down from
London for each session-ministers, scien-
tists, economists, and the like. The expert
opens the session with an hour-long extem-
poraneous address. And then the warden of
Wilton Park, Dr. H. Koeppler, who is kind of
our den mother, invites us to ask the expert
questions. And while our warden is not
only a highly Intelligent but very kindly
man, he dearly loves us to ask questions. Or
else.
Unfortunately, when his eye lights sternly
on me, the only question I can think of put-
ting to the expert might be phrased: "What,
Lord Curmudgeon, In hell were you talking
about?"
This would be very bad form. It's not so
much the question. It's the way I put it.
The proper method is to begin by telling the
expert what you think. Or, more accurately,
what a lot of other people think. Like:
"There is a considerable body of opinion in
East Peoria, Sir Jocelyn, as confirmed by 16
Gallup polls, a WCTU survey, and the entrails
of a love-sick sheep, that ? ? ?" And so
forth. And If you go on for at least 10 min-
utes, you can then ask him what the hell he
was talking about. Because nobody will be
listening. Including the expert. Who will
use his turn at the microphone, anyway, to
make a point he forgot to make in his
speech. Such as the Increased egg produc-
tion in western Oxfordshire.
Of course, how you ask your 10-minute
question depends on your nationality. If
you are Spanish, you must Include a defense
of Spain's economic development. The Por-
tuguese are different. They must include a
defense of Portugal's colonial policy.
The Italians just get emotional and never,
ever mention statistics. The French are pre-
cisely the same except they're very belliger-
ent about it. The Germans, on the other
hand, must do nothing but cite figures in
their 10-minute questions. Which invariably
take 20 minutes to ask, due to the length of
German verbs and the requirement that any
public statement in German must be sop-
orific. As for the British, they don't care
what they say as long as they phrase it
properly.
That leaves us Americans. Well, we just
kind of bumble along, asking brief questions
out of naive curiosity and usually uninten-
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of yellow tinge. In my office. I heard about
others who had the same symptoms. I called
,the county health department. We've got
an epidemic of yellow jaundice on our hands.
I told them, AID the local doctors had been
phoning to tell them the same thing. So
they called idle State health officials, who, I
gather, caIIed you"
She drew out a map she had made of the
town. At the site of each house where there
was a patient sick with hepatitis she had
made a cross with a red pencil.
To Dr. Mosely, this was a first clue. On
the eastern side of town, the crosses were
thick; there were only scattered crosses else-
where. This meant the disease was cen-
tered in one part of town. It was unlikely,
he felt, that the source of the epidemic was
something the whole town was eating or
drinking.
Two weeks later, Dr. Mosely studied a
larger, more complex version of the map
the school nurse had given him. The red
crosses at the site of each hepatitis case
had been changed to black pins, and there
were 129 of them stuck in the map-mostly
still on the east side of town. But there
were some pins scattered In the west and
even outside of town. -
During the preceding 2 weeks. Dr. Mosely
had been to see everyone In town who was
in any way associated with the epidemic-
doctors, patients, nurses, the superintendent
of schools. He bad gathered all the informa-
tion he needed.
"The fact that there have been no new
cases reported for 3 whole days settles one
thing in my mind," Dr. Mosely reported.
"The sick people got hepatitis from a com-
mon source-from one thing or place-
probably not from each other." When an
epidemic of hepatitis is spread from person
to person, through close contact, the epi-
demic lasts about 6 months. That's because
the disease has an incubation period of about
a month. In other words It takes a month
for a person to get sick after he's been ex-
posed. So the disease is spread out over a
longer period than when everyone Is exposed
to the germs simultaneously.
In addition to the time factor, there were
other clues. There was the age factor:
the disease bad chosen as its victims mostly
high-school youngsters and young adults.
When germs are spread from person to per-
son, most of the victims are young children
who catch things easily. And there was
also the geographic factor: the people who
were sick outside of town were all children
who came there to school and grownups who
came to work. But most cases were actually
in tpwn and on the east side, as the nurse's
map told the doctor his first day on the job.
All clues, therefore, pointed to the epi-
demic coming from one source. To find that
source, however, was a complicated problem.
The water supply had been considered at
first. But the town had only one large reser-
voir for drinking water. When it was tested,
it showed no trace of contamination. What's
more, if the reservoir water had caused the
epidemic, it would have been more scattered.
As for food, there had been no common place
where all the sick people had eaten. Most
people ate at home, not in restaurants.
Milk and canned foods were also investigated.
But the sick people drank milk from all
three dairies in town, not just one. And
they had eaten no one canned or bottled
food.
The source of the epidemic, Dr. Mosely
concluded, had to be a common gathering,
such as the district wrestling meet which
attracted the right age group, or the monthly
basketball games. But not enough sick peo-
ple had attended any of these functions.
It suddenly occurred to Dr. Mosely that the
sick people were at the age for going to the
movies-and there was just one movie house
in town.
At this point, things began to move fast.
Dr. Mosely called the sanitary engineer
who was responsible for the local water sys-
tem. The engineer and his assistant accom-
panied the doctor to the theater. When
Dr. Mosely sighted a water fountain, he
asked the manager where the plumbing for
It was. If there was a crass connection, a
place where the fresh water and sewage pipes
crossed, they might really be on their way
to finding whatdunit. There was.
Back In the office, Dr. Mosely asked the
district engineer for an approved map of the
sanitary and water supply systems. He
studied It a few minutes, then let out a low
whistle.
He had considered the water supply as a
possible epidemic source at the very begin-
ning, but dropped the idea when he learned
the whole town drank from one reservoir
and most of the sickness was on one side of
town. Now he saw that in the hills above
the town were two springs he had never
heard of. and from these springs ran a fresh
water supply pipe no one had told him
about-right Into the east side of town where
the epidemic centered and where the movie
theater was.
Up above and parallel to the town was a
pretty little stream near an underground
spring which fed the pipeline to town. The
municipal water system was privately owned
and the previous summer the owner had
gotten complaints from his customers on
the other side of the hill that they didn't
have enough water pressure In their faucets.
So he simply ran a pipe from the little
stream Into the main pipeline. If a surface
stream is used for water supply, it should be
chlorinated. But no one had been up to
check on the spring for 5 years; it was no
wonder that the spring house, which should
have been watertight, was broken down and
leaking.
What's more, the man who owned the
water system also owned a summer cabin
right below another spring which was sup-
posed to be cut off and opened only in
emergencies such as fire. But he needed
more water for his cabin. So he had opened
the cutoff.
The water from this spring, then, was also
running into the main pipeline. And up
the dirt road were houses which emptied
their septic or sewage tanks right across an
open field Into the spring. In January a
man who lived In one of those houses had
come down sick with hepatitis. A girl who
lived in another house had gotten It in Feb-
ruary. So their sickness had spread through
the spring, through the wrongly opened cut-
off, to the whole eastern side of town.
An a result of this revelation, the pipeline
was overhauled and brought up to proper
health standards, and the source of the dis-
ease eliminated.
These are many other dramatic instances
of the quick work done by the Center's dis-
ease detectives.
A team from the Communicable Disease
Center and Baylor University, for example,
rushed off to British Guiana shortly before
Christmas last year to fight a polio epi-
demic. By setting up mass immunization
clinics and assisting in essential vaccine ad-
ministration, the group scored a double suc-
cess. Not only did they stamp out the
epidemic, but they also did much to counter
anti-American propaganda In British
Guiana.
And a year ago last summer. CDC's in-
vestigators went to. St. Petersburg, Fla., to
aid the local and State health authorities
In controlling an epidemic of encephalitis
in the Tampa Bay area. Scientists suspected
a mosquito known as Culex nigripalpus,
which was common in this area. After ex-
haustive tests, It was found that this mos-
quito was indeed carrying the virus of St.
Louis encephalitis. This made possible a
mosquito control program, specifically di-
rocted toward the control of this particular
species and eradication of the disease.
Again, a mysterious ailment struck down
43 young school children in a small southern
town. Psittacosis was suspected because the
children's classrooms each contained a pair
of parakeets. But the blood samples which
were taken during the investigation by a
team of Communicable Disease Center in-
vestigators, proved the disease to be histo-
plasmosis, a lung fungus disease which re-
semble tuberculosis, and which is transmit-
ted by pores which form in dust. Here, too,
tracking down the cause of disease was the
essential first step to its treatment and cure.
The Communicable Disease Center is an
arm of the Public Health Service, which is
a vast enterprise geared to keep disease from
happening and from spreading if it does
appear. Its workers strive to keep as many
people as possible in as good health as pos-
sible, for as long as possible.
Through such agencies as the Communica-
ble Disease Center, and its fast-moving, fast-
thinking detectives, the Public Health
Service Is able to offer services that individ-
ual doctors cannot. Contagious diseases can
spread like brush fires unless there are skilled
people on guard to find them, then stamp
them out. Your medical FBI is your fam-
ily's partner in a vast health enterprise
whose mission Is simply stated-to advance
The Lady Is for Burning: The Ski,en
Deadly Sins of Madam Nhu
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
or
HON. KATHARINE ST. GEORGE
or NEW YORK
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, November 7, 1963
Mrs. ST. GEORGE. Mr. Speaker, the
following article, appearing In the last
issue of the National Review, is written
by our former colleague, Clare Boothe
Luce. .
The article on Madam Nhu is one of
the most interesting pieces on the lady
to appear in our press. Mrs. Luce has
done considerable research into the ques-
tions she discusses. She has courage
enough to state her views and she has
Intelligence enough to back them up
with reason and logic. She also unveils
some of our own hypocrisy and the bet-
ter-than-thou attitude of some in high
places:
THE LADY Is FOR BURNING: THE SEVEN DEADLY
SnV8 or MADAM NHU
(By Clare Boothe Luce)
Madam Ngo Dinh Nhu, the First Lady of
Vietnam, who recently left our shores, is
beautiful, dynamic, courageous, intelligent.
And even her worst enemies do not doubt
her piety or virtue. A militant Catholic,
mother of four, she is a devoted and fiercely
loyal (if not subservient) wife. But what
makes Madam Nhu important Is the great
political power she wields in her country.
For a moment, however brief, In history,
some part of America's prestige if not-secu-
rity, seems to lie In the pale pink palm of
her exquisite little hand.-
South Vietnam, although an underpopu-
lated country (14 million), is the latest spot
in America's 17-year-old struggle to contain
communism. The United States is spending
better than a million dollars a day there to
help the Vietnamese fight a guerrilla war.
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booted out? For there can be little doubt
that the big boot will have to be used, since
MM-dam Nhu, among other things, is a fight-
lug lady.
Not long ago Madam Nhu said that Amer-
icans are "Ivanhoes" who are perpetually In
love with the underdog, but confused about
who the underdog really is. She thinks the
underdogs that the U.S. press corps In Viet-
nam and the State Department are sobbing
over are the Vietcong Communist provoca-
teurs who have inflamed some Buddhist
opinion. Madam Nhu believes she herself
is the real underdog in the situation. Cer-
tainly the china doll-sized stateswoman from
South Vietnam has been taking enough
punishment from the American press to
smash her Into a tiny heap of porcelain
scraps. Fortunately for her, and possibly
for her country, Madam Nhu is not a china
doll. Backhanded by the State Department,
bullied and scratched at by reporters, lec-
tured at by her own lecture audiences.
Madam Nhu travels along singing her song.
Chin up, eyes flashing, long delicate hands
gesticulating gracefully and forcefully, she
is still pretty solid on her 3-inch heels.
The charge that Madam Nhu, her hus-
band, her brothers-in-law President Ngo
Dinh Diem and Archbishop Ngo Dinh Thuc.
have "persecuted" South Vietnamese Bud-
dhists Is certainly the toughest charge she
has bad to meet. But meet it she did. And
meet it she must, for her fellow Catholic
President Kennedy does not Intend to face
into the 1864 election campaign defending
himself against accusations from the liberal
left that he has supported a government
just because it is Catholic. He can better
afford to lose Vietnam than to have that
calumny tied to him.
THE CHARGE of FEV0CUTIuNN
The fact L that the charge of religious
persecution against the family is pretty
'recent. And i Indeed they are persecuting
BuddFste this will mark the first time in
democratic history that a small religious
minority has successfully persecuted an over-
whelming religious majority in a democracy.
South V4ie-team Catholics number 1.5
million of the 14 million population. There
are approximately 5.25 million Buddhists
and the remainder of the population Is made
up of Taoists, Confucianists, and members
of other sects. Leas than one-third of the
Cabinet members are Catholics; only 3 of
the 19 generals, But Catholics are about
half of the civil service and the Assembly.
The season for this, given and accepted until
a few months ago by Iii foreign observers
in Vietnam, is that the Catholics under the
French built an extensive parochial school
system. over the years this system has
turned out relatively well-educated graduates
with a lively interest in Western democratic
government. The Buddhists have not been
able to compete with these educated Catholic
Vietnamese In civil service examinations.
Until last May, there was no evidence of
great discontent with the Diem government
by the Buddhist population. On the con-
trary, thanks to the annual 8350 million
economic and military aid, and with the
help of 14,000 U.S. military "advisers," vic-
tory, last spring, seemed near for the Diem
government, and the people seemed to know
it.
. Then, in the space of 5 months the
flaming ' deaths of six Buddhist bonzes. or
priests, led to a aeries of public demonstra-
tions which brought about the present polit-
ical crisis in "which Madam Nhu herself Is
also being badly burned.
fOSCED TO "LOSE FACE" _
now did these deaths come about? Were
the Buddhist priests dragged by force from
their homes or temples by Catholics and put
to the torch-as In the not so distant past
in America. Negroes were torn from their
home, or jails, and lynched or burned-by
white Americans? Were the bonzes butch-
Bred as were thousands of Mao Tse-tung's
recalcitrant Chinese farmers? Were they
tortured, beaten, brainwashed, shot, liqui-
dated as millions of Russians, Poles. Hun-
garians were by Stalin and Khrushchev?
They were not. The saffron-robed monks
were living unmolested by anyone in their
own pagodas, when one by one they stole
forth Into public squares, where they
squatted In lotus pose. poured gasoline over
themselves, applied the match. and com-
mitted suicide.
In America, If a Catholic priest were to
burn himself to death In protest to the Gov-
ernment's failure to provide free bus rides
for parochial schoolchildren, or if a Prot-
estant minister were to make of himself
a living torch to express his opposition to
the Supreme Court decision against prayer
in public schools, we would consider them
religious maniacs. And our Government
would take stringent measures to prevent
any repttion of such acts. This is precisely
the view Madam Nhu has taken of the self-
immolating bonzes. They are slaves, she
said, "it not to others, at least to their own
folly." And the government of President
Diem has used the police force to prevent
further emulations of such follies. What,
then, was the particular gtlevance which led
these Buddhists to encompass: their own cre-
mation?
Last May, the Buddhists of Hue were for-
bidden to unfurl their flags. In honor of
Buddha's 2507th birthday, above the flag of
Vietnam. As in America. no flag in Vietnam
may fly above the national flag. (In this
land of many religions. separation of church
and state Is. of necessity, the law of the
nation.) Refusal by Diem's government to
permit the Buddhists to fly their flag above
the national flag caused the leaders of the
Bud pagoda to lose face.
In America. self-immolation is not thought
to be a useful or particularly democratic
way to protest grievances or discrimination.
However, an Insult which might barely
cause one American to punch another, could,
say In Japan. lead to bars-kirl. A Japanese
who loses face disembowels himself with a
ritual sword. ofted aided by a friend or
a relative. In India, for hundreds of years.
widows threw themselves onto the funeral
pyres of their husbands; if they did not, they
lost face. Although suttee has been out-
lawed for a century In India, In backward
villages it is still occasionally practiced.
HUMANA ATTUNED
The Buddhist monks in Vietnam who in-
cinerated themselves not only regained
"face" f.:z the temple, but Nirvana or Para-
dise and sainthood for themselves. For at
.at three of the monks who were over age
70, this must have seemed a rather good
deal.
(Probably no American c"n understand
the Asiatic concept of "face." This is per-
haps forunate. In view of how much "face"
the United States has lost in the Orient, we
would have to burn Washington to recover
it.)
In our country. protestors sign petitions,
picket, hire halls or rabblerouse. Recently
our Negroes (a minority) have taken to
sit-ins, sit-downs, mass denwnstratlons,
handcuffing themselves together, until the
police break them up.
While we are on the subject of discrimina-
tton, it may help us to think a little more
charitably about President Diem's and Mad-
am Nhu's alleged persecution of the Bud-
dhista, if we remember that despite 4 years
of mass Negro demonstrations in America,
the President still has not found it con-
venient to appoint a Negro to his Cabinet,
to help elect a Negro Senator, or Governor,
.or even a big city mayor. And yet Negroes
represent 20 percent of our population, and
time and again their vote decides presiden-
tial elections.
in America. It depends on wthat you can
get away with. But not so in Vietnam. Not,
anyway, on our money. In Vietnam you
have to be perfect.
Consequent to the Buddhist sacrifice s,
there have been. since May, a half-don n
demonstrations of Buddhists in the streets.
In the attempt to keep order, the Vietnam
police have encountered the same difficulties
our police have encountered with unruly
crowds of demonstrators in Alabama, Chi-
cago. New York's Harlem, New Jersey. And
In Vietnam as in America. some people got
hurt. A bomb thrown by an unknown
provocateur killed several people in Vietnam.
U.S. Embassy officers expressed themselves as
being "shocked and disgusted" at this occur-
rence and at the police suppression of the
Buddhist demonstrators.
The State Department no doubt failed to
inform our Embassy In Saigon that similar
episodes were happening in Alabama, where
four children were killed in a church bomb-
tag, and In the wake, two boys were killed by
police. Nor did they send out over the Voice
of America to Vietnam a very clear account
of riots and police methods used to quell
Negro-white rioters In other parts of the
country.
And speaking of corruption in Vietnam,
what about the Casa Nostra operation in
America? An, well, In America, democracy
isn't perfect. But in Vietnam It had better
be-on our money.
The last charge against Mme. Nhu and the
Diem government is that their failure to be
an Ideal democracy which their American
critics carry about In their heads-will now
make it Impossible to win the war against the
Vietcong Communists.
Is this true, or Is it false? Viata,atn has
been at war for almost a decade. The South
Vietnam population is suffering 5,000 casual-
ties a year. Women and men, many of them
Buddhists, have gone forth day after day,
year after year, to meet and repulse their
Communist enemies. A few months ago
victory was In eight. If the United States
gives firm support to Diem now, the crisis
will pass and the war may still be won. If the
.U.S. support Is withdrawn on the grounds
that the United States can no longer sup-
port the Diem government because 6 men-
or 16-insist on making human torches of
themselves, then South Vietnam will fall
and the political vacuum left by the Ngo
Dinh family will soon be filled by the "Yu-
No-Hu" family: the Chinese Communists.
is the history of the liberal press in :,hung-
king and Havana going to repeat Itself? The
evidence is that It Is.
The Christian Science Monitor wrote last
week: "The confusion (in American public
opinion) stems from the fact that the United
States does not wish to say, in so many words,
that it Is working for a revolution in South
Vietnam. But so long as the Ngo Dinh
family remains unbending, that Is the fact"
if Indeed, that is the fact, the adminis-
tration will no doubt begin to boast along
.about 1965 that It has- relieved tensions in
Vietnam by negotiating peace with Ho Chi-
minh, the Communist leader of that coun-
try. And no doubt wheat and arms will
then soon be sent to him, to strengthen
"the Vietnamese Tito" against Red China.
Poor Madam Nhu. The lady is sure for
burning.
Some Call It Murder
Ed TENSION OF REMARKS
or
HON. ROBERT H. MICHEL
or ILLINOIS
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, November 7, 1963
Mr. MICHEL. Mr. Speaker, Tom
Pugh, the Peoria-Journal Star's man In
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,4 .Whereas there are. others to follow with
the details on how contracts are let and how
payments for research are made, let us briefly
consider, the subject in broad terms.
Ours is a capitalistic society, and we feel
very strongly that the capitalistic system is
-responsible for our unquestioned strength.
? The profit motive must continue to operate,
as it has so well in the past, to provide the
incentive and the reward to those whose
genius and labor contribute to the common
good.
We are spending more and more money for
research every day, but the rules are chang-
ing. The systems that are used to contract
for research, or to repay research costs on
independently produced items, are constantly
being modified to meet new conditions, to
improve them and to make them more re-
sponsive to the needs and demands of the
situation.
The whole fabric of our society, the most
successful yet devised by man we believe, is
woven, of the warp of individual and col-
lective integrity and the woof of conflicting
interests justly compromised-of checks, and
balances, and safeguards.
.:Whereas the Communist theory is, "from
each according to his abilities, to each ac-
cording to his needs," we question who is to
decide those abilities and those needs.
We know that man is imperfect-he is im-
provable, and capable of great sacrifice and
achievement-but he should never be al-
lowed too much uncontrolled power. As the
old Romans put it "quis custodiet ipso cus-
todies"-"whoshall guard the guards?"
In the realm of payment for research for
military applications, a similar system of
justly compromised conflicts of interest-of
checks and balances and" safeguards-needs
also to apply. This system is still being per-
fected. It is a complicated problem, and
every legitimate interest must be justly
served.
I believe our present strength is ample
evidence of past success. I have some" per-
sonal knowledge of this since not too long
ago I served in the Navy Bureau of Aeronau-
tics as Assistant Chief for Research and De-
.velopment.
As fleet commander of the 7th Fleet re-
cently, I was a consumer of our own prod-
Ucts, and so my evaluation of necessity had
some degree of objectivity.
Now I am back on the producer side of the
house, and as part of my catching up with
?what has gone on while I was happily em-
ployed as an operator, I have .been re-
freshing myself on developments in the field
of -procurement. Inso' doing I. came across
two qualifications which I thought might
add substance to my rather general remarks
on this subject.
The Armed Services Procurement Regula-
tion issued by the Department of'Defense,
in" the revision issued on August 15 this year,
has this to say about profits: "* * s low
average profit rates on defense contracts
overall are detrimental to the public in-
terest. Effective national defense in a free
enterprise economy requires that the best
* * * 'capabilities be attracted to defense
contracts."
`Another portion of the regulation sets
forth the` following' specific policy for re-
search and development:
"A 'fundamental mission of research and
developmeni programs is to maintain scienti-
fic and technolooeal supe'rio'rity requisite to
promote and advance' the effectiveness of
military operations. The accomplishment of
this mission requires the broadest possible
'base pf contractor and subcontractor sources
including the optimum use of manpower and
'reeoflrces. ` It is essential that the best tech-
nical competence be located and fully uti-
lized, The departments shall continually
:search:' for 'and develop information '6n
ig small business concerns)
sources (includn
competent to perform research` and develop-
Of course these aren't the only considera-
tions. The interest of the Government must
be protected-that is profits should not be
too high. And the interest of the consumer
must be protected-that is performance must
be assured. But within those obvious limita-
tions, our free and competitive society must
be served.
As the Chief of Naval Material, I am
vitally concerned with supporting the com-
mendable philosophy embodied in those two
quotations.
It is certainly an honor and a pleasure to
be with you here today.
I wish you the greatest success in your
What Does Vietnam Coup,Mean?
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. STEVEN B. DEROUNIAN
OF NEW YORK
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, November 6, 1963
Mr. DEROUNIAN. Mr. Speaker, there
is great concern in the United States
over the coup in Vietnam, which had the
approval of President Kennedy.
In yesterday's Washington Evening
Star, William S. White gives us his anal-
ysis of the seriousness of the situation,
WILL THE Coup AID WAR ON REDS?
(By William S. White)
A long night of worry for the, future in
South Vietnam has settled in for high Amer-
ican. policymakers. .If any jubilation was
initially felt here among junior officials at
the destruction of the government of Ngo
Dinh Diem-with which Washington had
long been having trouble-nothing of that
sort is anywhere discernible now.
Instead, there is a morning-after mood.
In part, this is produced by genuine regret
at the assassination of a man our people
would, in fact, have liked to see remain in
power if only he would have 'got rid of his
erratic brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu.. Ironically,
American Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge
had prepared a cable reporting that Mr. Diem
seemed to be moving a bit more our way on
the.very day the insurrection was mounted.
In larger part, however, the air of concern
is caused by these new fears:
1. That "super patriots" attached to the
revolution of the 20 generals which deposed
Mr. Diem may go on killing and thus further
stain the new regime and raise: questions of
its capacity to govern in decency.
2. That one or two among the generals
might conceivably not be so reliably anti-
Communist .as the great majority is, and so
begin what above all else is to ,be feared.
This is some under-the-cover negotiation
with the Communist invaders of South Viet-
nam so long fought off by the Diem govern-
ment backed by 15,000 American troops.
3. That the new provisional, government of
the generals, with. Nguyen Ngoc Tho as pro-
visional President, might become politically
ambitious rather than solely concerned
with the war against the Communists.
- TWO u.S HOPES -- - -
Mixed with all this are two; strong An eri-
can hopes. One is that there may now" be an
end to the exploitation of religious differ-
ences iii Vfetnam-no more talk of-"who is
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who' was, to blame for it-was endangering
the war. In this connection, some comfort
Is taken officially here in the fact that all
three of the top Catholic generals joined in
the uprising.
The second American hope Is that the new
regime wil be in no hurry to orderpopular
elections. Washington is not'?interested in
seeing a political campaign, with all its in-
built divisiveness to a country at war, sweep
over Vietnam. The United States would be
quite content to see the new outfit maintaiii
its provisional character-with power diffused
among the generals. For Mr. Diem's fate
established the inherent danger of having
all power concentrated in one or two pairs of
Nhu.
WILL WAR EFFORT BE AIDED? `- '
But all this is mere prelude to the crucial
question: Will the war against the'Commu-
nists now be promoted or retarded? If it is
promoted all, of course, will be well. If it
becomes bogged down by disunity in Saigon,
twin disaster will lie ahead.
Any failure of the American military, effort
there would not only lay all southeast, Asia
open to creeping Communist aggression. It
also would bankrupt a wise American strategy
to halt such aggressions by limited commit-
ments of our, -own forces, cooperating with
full commitments of local forces. The alter-
natives to this policy would be to submit to
local aggressions or to face major war on
the Korean scale-Or -beyond.
.Moreover, a collapse in South Vietnam
could quite simply, destroy the Kennedy
administration. Careful and persistent in-
quiries have convinced me, for one, that the
United States neither ordered nor directly
participated in the bloody Ouster of Mr.
Diem. But nothing can alter the fact that
Washington long had been deliberately shak-
Ing his regime-not to smash it, but in the
hope of thus forcing him to make accommo-
dations with his Buddhist-led opposition to
permit the war to go full tilt. Since America
has helped, if indirectly, to push him down,
the administration's responsibility will be
frightful If the new. regime ever abandons the
war on communism.
J.F.K. on Price: Fixing
EXTENSION OF
OF
HON. JOHN D. DINGELL
OF MICHIGAN
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, November 7, 1963
Mr. DINGELL. Mr. Speaker, pur-
suant to permission granted, I insert into
the Appendix of the CONGRESSIONAL REc-
oee an editorial appearing in the Wash-
ington (D.C.) Post of Tuesday, November
5, 1963, entitled. "J.F.K. on Price Fix-
ing," in which President. Kennedy rather
clearly pointed out the. probability of a
Presidential veto for this most destruc-
tive legislation.
In view of the. President's comments it
would ,appear well for the Congress to
devote itself to :more fruitful and useful
legislation . which will not wind up . a
wreck on the rocks of a Presidential veto.
The article follows:
a Catholic and who is a Buddhist. Mr. Diem, J F K. ON PRICE FIXING
himself a Christian, was endlessly accused he proponents of the so-called,. "duality
of unduly repressive action agains't' the Stabilisation Act," bill Whicu' would dim-
Suddl is#s. It.wat this charge that brought finish competition in retail trade through
him down. ? Most of the generals of his staff- the Federal , enforcement of resale-price
Christian as well as Buddhist-Became :con- agreements between. n?anufactp ers slid re-
viriced that religious turmoil-no matter taiiers, derived little comfort from the e-
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marks made by President Kennedy at his last
press conference.
When asked about his position on the bill
which is opposed by all departments of the
executive branch, the President replied:
"I've never been for the quality stabiliza-
tion bill. I have to look at the bill when
It finally comes in the form it's In. I quite
obviously can't comment on legislation be-
fore it finally comes to the desk of the White
House, but the administration witnesses have
spoken my view."
The President's reluctance to comment in
greater detail was doubtless prompted by the
fact that a number of leading members of
his own party have been so foolhardy as to
sponsor legislation which would infringe
upon the right of the retailer to set prices
at competitive levels. The bill would saddle
the American consumers with an enormous
burden.
With a backlog of unfinished business that
runs the gamut from the budget for the cur-
rent fiscal year to tax reduction and civil
rights legislation, Congress should not waste
precious time on a bill which so clearly vio-
lates the spirit of free enterprise and stands
so small a chance of Presidential approval.
Time will be saved and embarrassment avoid-
ed if the Quality Stabilization Act is allowed
to die stillborn.
National Day of Fast and Prayer To
Protest Soviet Anti-Semitism
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
or
HON. LEONARD FARBSTEIN
07 NZW YORK
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, November 7, 1963
Mr. FARBSTEIN. Mr. Speaker, Rabbi
Dr. Julius G. Neumann, chairman of the
board of governors of the National In-
formation Bureau of Jewish Life, Inc.,
of which I am honorary president, has
Just concluded a one-man 3-day fast to
dramatize to America the oppression,
persecution, and tyranny of the Soviet
Union toward Russia's 3 million Jews.
An extension of Rabbi Neumann's pro-
test is planned for Monday, November
25, when a national day of fast and
prayer will be observed to protest Soviet
anti-Semitism.
Having made numerous and serious ef-
forts to bring this situation to the atten-
tion of the administration, and the
American people, I am pleased to insert
in the RECORD the statement made by
Rabbi Neumann at the conclusion of his
dramatic protest:
NATIONAL DAY or PAST AND PRAYER To PaoT7sr
8ovnr ANrx-SzMrrlsM
As pledged and in all accord with rab-
binical teachings, I have concluded an in-
dividual 3-day fast. I abstained from food
and drink on Monday, October 28; Thursday,
October 31 and Monday, November 4 as a pro-
test against Soviet anti-Semitism and to
dramatize to all Americans the tragic plight
of Russian Jewry.
For Americans of all faiths to know-that
persons are being condemned to death and
executed for minor economic offenses,
charged with committing criminal acts if
they sell matzohs, that kosher meat Is not
available, that Yiddish books may not be
printed, and that Jewish dead may not be
buried in a Jewish cemetery; to learn-that
In the Soviet Union synagogues are closed.
prayer books and religious articles are un-
available; Jewish instruction banned; Yid-
dish theaters, books and culture prohibited;
Jewish lay organizations barred; families
separated and reunion thwarted; equal rights
for Russian Jews openly denied, all this
midst a violent anti-Jewish press campaign-
to do nothing about this spiritual genocide is
just as sinful as abetting such atrocities.
At times, the Soviet Government has been
shown to be cognizant of world public
opinion. If the crescendo of International
protest mounts, there to hope that some
amelioration of the oppressive treatment and
tyranny meted out to Russian Jews may be
obtained.
Therefore, after consultation with many
religious and lay leaders of all faiths. I urge
the last Monday in November to be net aside
as a "National Day of Fast and Prayer" to
protest vigorously the persecution of the
Jewish minority by the Soviet Union.
My congregation Zichron Moshe will join
me in a 1-day 24-hour fast beginning at
sundown, Sunday, November 24, and con-
tinuing until sunset, Monday. November 25.
On Sunday evening, a special prayer service
will be held in the synagogue at 8 p.m. on
behalf of the 3 million Russian Jews.
Furthermore, the National Information
Bureau for Jewish Life. Inc., of which I am
chairman of the board of governors, has con-
tacted 77 community leaders In various cities
in our 50 States of the Union who we expect
to participate in joining this 1-day fast for
November 25 and arrange for special prayer
services on the preceding Sunday evening in
houses of worship of all faiths in their re-
spective cities. The bureau in New York
City and the surrounding metropolitan area
are reaching more than 1.250 institutions of
spiritual guidance to cooperate In this public
demonstration of solidarity against Soviet
discrimination.
I trust that my humble one-man, 3-day
fast will be transformed into a thunderous
8 million, 1-day fast which will reverberate
to the very rooms of the Kremlin. Let 3
million Americans stand up and be counted
as each a brother of 3 million Russian Jews.
Will We Ever Wise Up?
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
or
HON. GLENARD P. LIPSCOMB
07 CALIFORNIA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, November 6, 1963
Mr. LIPSCOMB. Mr. Speaker, under
leave to extend my remarks, I submit for
inclusion in the RECORD an editorial en-
titled "Will We Ever Wise Up?" from
the Lusk (Wyo.) Herald.
The editorial contains pertinent com-
ment on the proposed sale of wheat to
the U.S.S.R. which I believe will be of
interest to Members of the House.
WILL WE EVER WIsx Us'?
We Americans just don't seem to be adept
at playing the cold war game.
Somehow the makeup of Americans is such
that we can't deal with the Russians. Our
usual error is that we think the Communists
of Russia are honorable. Time and again
this thinking has been proven erroneous, but
we keep trying. Just take a look at the re-
cent happenings.
On the afternoon of October 9 President
Kennedy said he would sell 4 million tons
of wheat to the Soviets. The following morn-
ing, as a display of gratitude, the Soviets
prevented a convey of U.S. troops from using
the autobahn to Berlin, despite the fact
that America had in a treaty with Russia
the right to use the autobahn.
While the Soviets held up the American
troops President Kennedy was entertaining
Gromyko, Russia's Foreign Minister, in the
White House.
Then too, the wheat deal doesn't smell ex-
actly good. In answer to our inquiry Sen-
ator MILWABD SIMPSON reports the We of
wheat to Russia Is in essence about a 50-50
credit cash deal. In other words Russia is
going to, if the deal goes through, pay about
half of the world market price (usually be-
tween$1.75-81.80). American wheat farmers
will get about $2.03 per bushel.
Can you imagine charging anything to
Russia when they already owe $11 billion to
the United States?
Doctors Opposed to Medicare but Take
$2 Million in Public Funds
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
or
HON. JOHN D. DINGELL
OF MICHIGAN
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, November 7, 1963
Mr. DINGELL. Mr. Speaker, pur-
suant to permission granted I insert into
the Appendix of the CONGRESSIONAL REC-
ORD an article appearing in the Engine-
men's Press on October 25, 1963 pointing
out very well that West Virginia doctors,
whose State and National medical asso-
ciations are violently opposed to hos-
pitalization for the aged under the social
security program, are not in the least op-
posed to socialized State and Federal
funds, of which they collected more than
$2 million last year for treating patients
too poor to pay.
One physician, I assume a stanch
supporter of the AMA and its position,
received $44,391 in socialized State and
Federal funds for treatment of certain,
West Virginians.
Another doctor contrived to receive
$40,596 worth of socialized State and
Federal funds to confer, according to
AMA, $49,596 worth of socialized medi-
cine upon a number of other unfortunate
West Virginians.
It strikes me that there is brazen
hypocrisy abroad in the land when the
American Medical Association would
engage In violent opposition to "social-
ized medicine" and measures to respon-
sibly meet the need of people of this
country, and at the same time support
other programs like Kerr-Mills, which is
fully as socialized but which does not,
according to recent findings of the Sen-
ate Special Committee on Aging, do the
job for the vast number of people 65 and
over.
The article follows:
DOCTORS OPPOSED TO MEDICARE BUT TAKE $2
MILLION IN PUBLIC FUNDS
CIiARI.EsroN, W. VA.-West Virginia doctors
who with their counterparts In other States
decry "socialized" medical care, collected
more than $2 million in State and Federal
funds last year for treating patients too poor
to pay.
One physician, the Charleston Gazette re-
ported, received $44,391 in State payments-
presumably in addition to the fees he re-
ceived from noncharity patients. Another
doctor managed to see enough charity pa-
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Whereas there are others to follow with
the details on ,how contracts are let and how
payments for research are made, let us briefly
.consider,the subject in broad terms.
Ours is a capitalistic society, and we feel
very strongly that the capitalistic system is
responsible for our unquestioned strength.
.The profit motive must continue to operate,
.as it has so well in the past, to provide the
incentive and the reward to those whose
.genius and labor contribute to the common
good.
We are spending more and more money for
research every day, but the rules are -chang-
ing: The systems that are used to contract
for research, or to repay research costs on
independently produced items, are constantly
-being modified to meet new conditions, to
improve them and to make them more re-
sponsive to the needs and demands of the
situation.
The whole fabric of our society, the most
successful yet devised by man we believe, is
woven of the warp of individual and col-
lective integrity and the woof of conflicting
interests justly compromised-of checks, and
balances, and safeguards.
Whereas the Communist theory is, "from
,each according to his abilities, to each ac-
cording to his needs," we question who is to
decide those abilities and those needs.
We know that man is imperfect-he is im-
provable, and capable of great sacrifice and
achievement-but he should never be al-
lowed too much uncontrolled power. As.the
old Romans put it "quis custodiet ipso `cus-
todies"-"who shall guard the guards?"
In the realm of payment,for research for
military applications, a similar system of
justly compromised conflicts of interest-of
checks and balances and safeguards-needs
also to apply. This system is still being per-
fected. It is a complicated problem, and
every legitimate interest must be justly
served.
I believe our present strength is ample
evidence of past success. I have some per-
sonal knowledge of this since not too `long
-ago I served in the Navy Bureau of Aeronau-
ties as Assistant Chief for Research and De-
"velopment.
As fleet commander of the 7th Fleet re-
cently, I was a consumer of our own prod-
ucts,, and so my evaluation of necessityhad
some degree of objectivity.
Now I am back on the producer side of the
house, and as part of my catching up with
what has gone on while I was happily em-
ployed as an operator, I have been re-
freshing myself on developments in the field
of procurement. In so doing I came across
two qualifications which I thought' might
add substance to my rather general remarks
on this subject.
The' Armed Services Procurement Regula-
tion issued by the Department of Defense,
in the revision issued on August 15 this year,
has this to say about.proflts: "* * * low
average profit rates on defense contracts
overall are detrimental to the public-
Effective national defense in a free
enterprise economy requires that the "best
*" * * capabilities be attracted to defense
contracts."
Another portion of the regulation sets
forth the following specific policy for re-
search and development;
"A fundamental mission of research and
development programs is to maintain scienti-
hc and technological superiority requisite to
promote :and advance the, effectiveness of
military operations. The accomplishment of
this mission requires the broadest possible
base of contractor and?subcohtractor sources
including the optimum use of manpower and
resources. 'it is essential that the best te h-
'nical competence be" located and fully uti-
lized. The departments shall continually
'search 3or and develop information' "on
sources :(including small business concerns)
competent to perform research and ?develop-
meht.'*
Of course these aren't the only considera-
tions. The Interest of the Government?must
be protected-that is profits should not be
too high. And the, interest of the consumer
must be protectedthat is performance must
be assured. But within those obvious limita-
tions, our free and competitive society must
be served.
As the Chief of Naval Material; I am
vitally concerned with supporting the com-
mendable philosophy embodied in those two
quotations.
It is certainly an honor and a pleasure to
be with you here today.
I wish you the greatest success in your
endeavors here in the clinic.
What Does ietn Coup Mean?
EXTENS N OF REMARKS,
HON. STEVEN B. DEROUNIAN
OF NEW YORK.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, November 6, 1963
Mr. DEROUNIAN. Mr. Speaker, there
is great concern in the United States
over the coup in Vietnam, which had the
approval of President Kennedy.
In yesterday's Washington Evening
Star, William S. White gives us his anal-
ysis of the seriousness of the. situation.
WILL THE Coup AID WAR ON REDS?
(By William S. White)
A long night of worry for the future in
South Vietnam has settled in for high Amer-
ican policymakers. If any jubilation was
initially felt. here among. junior officials at
the destruction of the government of Ngo
Dinh Diem-with which Washington had
long been having trouble-nothing of that
sort is. anywhere discernible now.
. Instead, there is ,. a morning-after mood.
In, part, this is.produced by genuine regret
at the assassination of a man our people
would, in .fact, have liked to see remain in
power if only he would have got rid. of his
erratic brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu. Ironically,
American Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge
had prepared a cable reporting that Mr. Diem
seemed to be moving a bit more our way on
the very day the insurrection was mounted.
In larger part, however, the air of concern
is caused. by these new fears:
1. That `.'super patriots" attached to the
revolution of the 20 generals which deposed
Mr. Diem may go on killing and thus further
stain the new regime and raise questions .of
its capacity to govern in decency.
2. That one or two among the generals
might conceivably not be so reliably anti-
Communist as the great majority is, and so
begin what above all else is to be feared.
This is some under-the-cover negotiation
with the Communist Invaders of South Viet-
nam so long fought off by the Diem govern-
ment backed by 15,000. American troops.
3. That the new provisional government of
the generals, with Nguyen Ngoc The as pro-
visional President, might become politically
ambitious rather than solely concerned
with the war against the Communists.
Two U.S. HOPES -"
Mixed "with all this are' two strong Ameri-
can hopes. One is that there may now bean
end to the exploitation of religious differ-
ences in' uietnam-no more talk of who Is
a Catholic andwhp is.'aBuddhist.: 14r DiP,m, fF.I: ON PRICE FIXING
himself'a Christian, was endlessly accused The proponents of the so-called "Quality
of unduly repressive action against the Stabilization Act," 'a bill .which, would dim-
Buddhists. It was this charge that brought finish competition in retail trade through
him down " Most of the generals of his staff- the ?'ederal. enforcement. of resale-price
Christian as. well as Buddhist---became con- agreements between, manufacturers ,and re-
vinced that religious turmoil-no " matter tailers, 'derived little comfort from; tlie,~re-
who'was to blame for it-was endangering
the war. In this-connection, some comfort
is taken officially' here in the fact that all
three of the top Catholic generals joined in
the uprising. ' .
The second American hope is that the new
regime wil be in no hurry to order popular
elections. Washington is not interested in
seeing a political campaign, with all its in-
built divisiveness to a, country at war, sweep
over Vietnam. The United,States would be
quite content to see the new outfit maintain
its provisional character=with power diffused
among the generals. For Mr; Diem's fate
established the Inherent danger of having
all power concentrated in one or two pairs of
hands as it was with Mr. Diem and Mr.
Nhu.
WILL WAR EFFORT BE AIDED?
.But all this is mere prelude to the crucial
question: 'Will the war against the Commu-
nists now be promoted or retarded? If it is
promoted all, of course, will be well. If it
becomes bogged down by. disunity in Saigon,
twin disaster will lie ahead.
Any failure of,the.American military effort
there would not only lay all southeast Asia
open to creeping Communist `aggression. It
also would bankrupt a wise American strategy
to halt such aggressions by limited commit-
ments of. our own forces cooperating with
full commitments of local forces. The alter-
natives to this policy would be to submit to
local aggressions or to face major war on
the Korean scale-or beyond.
Moreover, a collapse in South Vietnam
could quite simply, destroy the Kennedy
administration. Careful and persistent in-
quiries have convinced me, for one, that the
United States neither ordered nor directly
participated in the bloody ouster of Mr.
Diem. But nothing can alter the fact that
Washington long had been deliberately shak-
ing his regime-not to smash it, but in the
hope of thus forcing him to make accommo-
dations with his Buddhist-led .opposition to
permit the war to go full tilt.. Since America
has helped, if indirectly, to push him down,
the administration's responsibility will be
frightful if the new regime ever abandons the
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, November 7, 1963
Mn DINGELL Mr; Speaker, pur-
suant to permission granted, I insert into
the Appendix of the'CoNGRESSIONAL REC-
ORD an? editorial appearing in the Wash-
Ington (D.C.) Post of Tuesday, November
5, 1963, entitled "J.F.K, on Price Fix-
ing," In which President Kennedy rather
clearly pointed out the, probability of a
Presidential veto for this most destruc-
tive legislation.
,In view of the President's comments it
would, appear well for the Congress to
.-dey4 a itself to more fruitful and useful
.legislation which; will not wind ups. a
wreck on the rocks of a Presidential veto.
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marks made by President Kennedy at his last
press conference.
When asked about his position on the bill
which is opposed by all departments of the
executive branch, the President, replied:
"Fee never been for the quality stabiliza-
tion bill. I have to look at the bill when
It finally comes in the form it's in. r quite
obviously can't comment on legislation be-
fore It finally comes to the desk of the White
Souse, but the administration witnesses have
spoken my view."
The President's reluctance to comment in
greater detail was doubtless prompted by the
fact that a number of leading members of
his own party have been so foolhardy as to
sponsor legislation which would infringe
upon the right of the retailer to set prices
at competitive levels. The bill woi id saddle
the American consumers with an enormous
burden.
With a backlog of unfinished business that
runs the gamut from the budget for the cur-
rent fiscal year to tax reduction and civil
rights legislation, Congress should not waste
precious time on a bill which so clearly vio-
lates the spirit of free enterprise and stands
so small a chance of Presidential approval.
Time will be saved and embarrassment avoid-
ed if the Quality Stabilization Act is allowed
to die stillborn.
National Day of Fast and Prayer To
Protest Soviet Anti-Semitism
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
Or
HON. LEONARD FARBSTEIN
or NEW YORK
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
2'hursday, November 7, 1963
Mr. FARBSTEIN. Mr. Speaker, Rabbi
Dr. Julius G. Neumann, chairman of the
board of governors of the National In-
formation Bureau of Jewish Life, Inc.,
of which I am honorary president, has
just concluded a one-man 3-day fast to
dramatize to America the oppression,
persecution, and tyranny of the Soviet
Union toward Russia's 3 million Jews.
An extension of Rabbi Neumann's pro-
test Is planned for Monday, November
25, when a national day of fast and
prayer will be observed to protest Soviet
anti-,Semltism.
Having made numerous and serious ef-
forts to bring this situation to the atten-
tion of the administration and the
American people, I am pleased to insert
in the RECORD the statement made by
Rabbi Neumann at the conclusion of his
dramatic protest:
NATIONAL DAY or FAST AND PRAYER To PROTEST
aovn:r ANTS-$EMITIBM
As pledged and in all accord with rab-
binical teachings, I have concluded an In-
dividual 3-day fast. I abstained from food
and drink on Monday. October 28; Thursday,
October 31 and Monday, November 4 as a pro-
test against Soviet anti-Semitism and to
dramatize to an Americans the tragic plight
of Russian Jewry,
Por Americans of all faiths to know-that
persons are being condemned to death and
executed for minor economic offenses,
charged with committing criminal acts if
they sett matzohs, that kosher meat is not
available, that Yiddish books may not be
printed, and that Jewish dead may not be
buried in a Jewish cemetery; to learn-that
In the Soviet Union synagogues are closed,
prayer books and religious articles are un-
available; Jewish Instruction banned; Yid-
dish theaters, books and culture prohibited;
Jewish lay organizations barred; fasnllies
separated and reunion thwarted: equal rights
for Russian Jews openly denied, all this
midst a violent anti-Jewish press campaign-
to do nothing about this spiritual genocide Is
Just as sinful as abetting such atrocities.
At times, the Soviet Government has been
shown to be cognizant of world public
opinion. If the crescendo of international
protest mounts, there is hope that some
amelioration of the oppressive treatment and
tyranny meted out to Russian Jews may be
obtained.
Therefore, after consultation with many
religious and lay leaders of all faiths, I urge
the last Monday in November to be set aside
as a "National Day of Fast and Prayer" to
protest vigorously the persecution of the
Jewish minority by the Soviet Union.
My congregation Zichron Moshe will join
me in a I-day 24-hour fast beginning at
sundown, Sunday, November 24, and con-
tinuing until sunset, Monday, November 25.
On Sunday evening, a special prayer service
will be held in the synagogue at 8 p.m. on
behalf of the 3 million Russian Jews.
Furthermore, the National Information
Bureau for Jewish Life. Inc., of which I am
chairman of the board of governors. has con-
tacted 77 community leaders in various cities
in our 50 States of the Union who we expect
to participate In joining this 1-day fast for
November 25 and arrange for special prayer
services on the preceding Sunday evening in
houses of worship of all faiths In their re-
spective cities. The bureau in New York
City and the surrounding metropolitan area
are reaching more than 1,250 institutions of
spiritual guidance to cooperate in this public
demonstration of solidarity against Soviet
discrimination.
L trust that my humble one-man, 3-day
fast will be transformed into a thunderous
S million, i-day fast which will reverberate
to the very rooms of the Kremlin. Let 3
million Americans stand up and be counted
as each a brother of 3 million Russian Jews.
Will We Ever Wise Up?
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
or
HON. GLENARD P. LIPSCOMB
or CALIFORNIA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, November 6, 1963
Mr. LIPSCOMB. Mr. Speaker, under
leave to extend my remarks, I submit for
Inclusion in the RECORD an editorial en-
titled "Will We Ever Wise Up?" from
the Lusk (Wyo.) Herald.
The editorial contains pertinent com-
ment on the proposed sale of wheat to
the U.S.S.R. which I believe will be of
interest to Members of the House.
WILL WE EvEs WIEE Up?
We Americans just don't seem to be adept
at playing the cold war game.
Somehow the makeup of Americans is such
that we can't deal with the Russians. Our
usual error is that we think the Communists
of Russia are honorable. Time and again
this thinking has been proven erroneous, but
we keep trying. Just take a look at the re-
cent happenings.
Oh the afternoon of October 9 President
Kennedy said he would sell 4 million tons
of wheat to the Soviets. The following morn-
ing, as a display of gratitude, the Soviets
prevented a convey of U.S. troops from using
the autobahn to Berlin, despite the fact
that America had in a treaty with Russia
the right to use the autobahn.
While the Soviets held up the American
troops President Kennedy was entertaining
Gromyko, Russia's Foreign Minister, in the
White House.
Then too, the wheat deal doesn't smell ex-
actly good. In answer to our inquiry Sen-
ator Mn,wASD SIMPSON reports the sale of
wheat to Russia is in essence about a 50-50
credit cash deal. In other words Russia is
going to, If the deal goes through, pay about
half of the world market price (usually be-
tween $1.75-41.80). American wheat farmers
will get about $2.03 per bushel.
Can you imagine charging anything to
Russia when they already owe $11 billion to
the United States?
Doctors Opposed to Medicare but Take
$2 Million in Public Funds
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
HON. JOHN D. DINGELL
OF MICIII0AN
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, November 7, 1963
Mr. DINGELL. Mr. Speaker, pur-
suant to permission granted I insert into
the Appendix of the CONGRESSIONAL REC-
ORD an article appearing In the Engine-
men's Press on October 25, 1963 pointing
out very well that West Virginia doctors,
whose State and National medical asso-
ciations are violently opposed to hos-
pitalization for the aged under the social
security program, are not in the least op-
posed to socialized State and Federal
funds, of which they collected more than
$2 million last year for treating patients
too poor to pay.
One physician, I assume a stanch
supporter of the AMA and its position,
received $44,391 in socialized State and
Federal funds for treatment of certain
West Virginians.
Another doctor contrived to receive
$40,596 worth of socialized State and
Federal funds to confer, according to
AMA, $49,596 worth of socialized medi-
cine upon a number of other unfortunate
West Virginians.
It strikes me that there is brazen
hypocrisy abroad in the land when the
American Medical Association would
engage in violent opposition to "social-
ized medicine" and measures to respon-
sibly meet the need of people of this
country, and at the same time support
other programs like Kerr-Mills, which is
fully as socialized but which does not,
according to recent findings of the Sen-
ate Special Committee on Aging, do the
job for the vast number of people 65 and
over.
The article follows:
DOCTORS OPPOSm TO MEDICARE BVT TAKE $2
MILLION IN PUBLIC FIINDS
CHAELEBTON, W. Va.-West Virginia doctors
who with their counterparts in other States
decry "socialized" medical care, collected
more than $2 million In State and Federal
funds last year for treating patients too poor
to pay.
One physician, the Charleston Gazette re-
ported, received $44,391 in State payments-
presumably in addition to the fees he re-
ceived from noncharity patients. Another
doctor managed to see enough charity pa-
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