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House of Representatives
The House met at 12 o'clock noon.
The Chaplain, Rev. Bernard Braskamp,
D.D., offered the following prayer:
Proverbs 28: 20: A faithful man shall
abound with blessings.
Almighty God, we earnestly beseech
Thee that our life may be more faithfully
and firmly rooted in the spiritual real-
ities. May our character and conduct be
brought into close and cordial harmony
with the promptings and persuasions of
Thy divine Spirit.
We humbly confess that our attitudes
and aspirations are frequently selfish
and self-centered, as we face a world that
has so many desperate needs and long-
ings.
Grant that all the Members bf this
Congress may bear witness in their per-
sonal life to the grandeur and glory
of the ideals and principles of our
democracy.
Hear us in Christ's name, Amen.
THE JOURNAL
The Journal of the proceedings of
yesterday was read and approved.
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
A message in writing from the Presi-
dent of the United States was communi-
cated to ,the House by Mr. Ratchford,
one of his secretaries.
?
SUBCOMMIT1 ht, ON ACCOUNTS,
HOUSE ADMINISTRATION COM-
MITTEE
Mr. BOGGS. Mr. Speaker, I ask
unanimous consent that the Subcom-
mittee on Accounts of the House Admin-
istration Committee be permitted to sit
during the session of the House today.
The SPEAKER. Is there objection to
the request of the gentleman from Loui-
siana?
There was no objection.
ADJOURNMENT TO THURSDAY,
FEBRUARY 7
Mr. BOGGS. Mr. Speaker, I ask
unanimous consent that when the House
adjourns today it adjourn to meet on
Thursday next.
The SPEAKER. Is there objection to
the request of the gentleman from Loui-
siana?
- There wa,,? no objection.
UNITED STATES IS IN A TRAGIC
SITUATION
(Mr. BECKER asked and was given
permission to address the House -for 1
minute and to revise and extend his re-
marks.)
No. 18-11
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1963
Mr. BECKER. Mr. Speaker, it took
many years before Nero fiddled while
Rome burned but I am sorry to say that
it has taken President John F. Kennedy
only a short time after his speech on
January 20, 1961, not only to place our
country in 'one of the worst domestic
messes it has ever been in, with his tax
reduction and tax reform phony pro-
grams, but our country, in its foreign
policy, has never been in worse shape
in its history. I can remember the time
when we have been in trouble with our ?
enemies, and that is natural. But to-
day we are knocking off our friends.
Today we are making enemies of our
friends. Today we are disenchanting
our friend to the north; we are disen-
chanting our friends in England and
trying to run General de Gaulle. Just
where are we going with that kind of a
backward policy, I shall never know. I
only say that it is a tragic thing for my
country.
OUR PRESENT SITUATION
(Mr. BOGGS asked and was given
permission to address the House for 1
minute and to revise and extend his
remarks.)
Mr. BOGGS. Mr. Speaker, I fully ap-
preciate the fact that Members often-
times use the well for political purposes.
I know that that has been going on for
a long time and I make no complaint
about it. But I would say that the
gentleman from New York [Mr. BECKER]
has just engaged in an exaggeration, to
use a very polite way of describing his
remarks. No. 1: the domestic situation
in our country. ,
The gross national product in the last
quarter of 1962 reached its 'highest
point in the history of the United States
of America. Corporate profits hit a
new record. Money available to the
general public hit a new record.
This does not mean that we do not
have problems. We do have them and
I frankly admit there are problems in
our economy. The President is facing
up to them, as the gentleman from New
York knows. What program, if any, has
the gentleman proposed? Whatever it
is, he has succeeded in keeping it a
secret.
Turning to the situation our country
finds itself in internationally. I have
never seen an administration .which has
handled itself with more restraint. The
notion that we have done anything to
alienate our neighbors to the north is
not correct. The notion that we have
alienated Great Britain is not correct.
As a matter of fact Prime Minister Mac-
millan met with the President of the
United States in the West Indies not
long ago and it was a most cordial and
fruitful meeting.
The problems of the world in which
'we live do not lend themselves to easy
solutions. I regret the speech of the
gentleman. I say to him that we have
a dedicated President who understands
these problems and who does his home-
work so that our country will remain
free, strong, and at peace. It is very easy
to be critical. It is harder to be con-
structive. I would hope we would ap-
proach these problems in a nonpartisan
spirit rather than a political spirit.
, THE ECONOMIC SITUATION
(Mr. HOSMER asked and was given
permission to address the House for 1
minute and to revise and extend his re-
marks.)
Mr. HOSMER. Mr. Speaker, I desire
to yield to the gentleman from New York
[Mr. BECKER].
Mr. BECKER. Mr. Speaker, I ap-
preciate my colleague from California's
yielding. I just wanted to say to the
gentleman from Louisiana that it is not
unusual wh6n a Republican stands on
the floor who believes in his country and
thinks the situation facing the United
States is tragic 'and then is accused of
being political. I would say the gentle-
man from Louisiana should be the last
one to accuse a Republican on this floor
of being political, because for 10 years I
have heard him time and time again
make political attacks on the Republi-
cans on this floor. My attack was not
political. My attack was on behalf of
my country. You talk about the gross
national product, but when you deduct
$100 billion of Federal spending, the
gross national product looks as phony
as a $3 bill. Further, the ridiculous
tax reduction proposal of the President?
what he is proposing is that the
Government borrow $12 billion from
the people and then give them a tax cut,
However, in the second proposal for tax
reform, he is going to take the tax reduc-
tion away frbm the low- and middle-in-
come families and make them pay more
taxes than ever before. I remember the
New Deal and Fair Deal policies of tax
and tax and spend and spend, but Presi-
dent Kennedy has introduced a new gim-
mick. Spend and spend, build bigger
and bigger deficits, push the national
debt into orbit and reduce taxes, or try
to make it look likd reducing taxes. Be- ?
lieve me, from my mail and talking to my
people back home, they are not being
fooled one little bit.
CUBA
I (Mr. MINSHALL asked and was given 1
permission to address the House for 1
minute.)
Mr. MINSHALL. AV. Speaker, ever
since the Bay of Pigs we have watched
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today's decisions on Cuba turn into
tomorrow's dilemmas. Confusion and
contradiction are keywords.
The United States, the most powerful
military and moral force in the world,
apparently is hypnotized into immobility
while an island in the Caribbean balloons
into a major threat to our national
security._
Are we to assume that Our Government
is prepared to permanently accept a Sq-
viet bastion just 6 jet minutes from
Miami?
Are we going to resign ourselves for-
ever to the presence of a pesthole of
Soviet propaganda, subversion, and infil-
tration just 90 miles from our shore?
Or are we going to face the fact that
the Soviets are pouring money, men, and
military hardware into Cuba with one
goal in mind: the ultimate subjugation
of the Western Hemisphere? ?
Communist Cuba threatens the secu-
rity and domestic tranquility of the
Americas. The American people have a
right to know what their Government
intends to do.
To that end, and to put a halt to the
confusion, contradiction, and speculation
which is causing unrest among our Latin
American neighbors and lack of confi-
dence at home, I am today introducing
a new resolution. It encompasses my
House Concurrent Resolution 51, intro-
duced on January 24, to investigate the
entire Bay of Pigs episode, and adds the
provision that a special joint committee
be empowered also to investigate the
operations of all our intelligence-gather-
ing agencies.
The past and present situation in Cuba
demands it.
U.S. CITIZENS IMPRISONED IN CUBA
(Mr. YOUNGER asked and was given
permission to address the House for 1
minute and to revise and extend his re-
marks.)
Mr. YOUNGER. Mr. Speaker, on
January 16 of this year I directed a
letter to Secretary Dean Rusk of the
Department of State, as follows:-
Since the release of the 'Cuban prisoners,
little if anything has been said about what is
happening to the 23 U.S. citizens who are
imprisoned in Cuba. Well you please' advise
me as to what is being done toward securing
the release of our own citizens from Mr.
Castro's jails.
I would like to report to the House that
up to date I have received no reply to
this letter. I am not terribly surprised,
knowing the difficulties with which the
State Department is laboring in all parts
of the world, but at least I thought I
might get a reply _stating that the De-
partment of State is seriously -concerned
about the imprisonment of our own citi-
zens by Castro.
It does seem strange that millions of
dollars of tax-free money can be raised
within a few hours to ransom the Cuban
prisoners but nothing can be done about
our own citizens.
It must be extremely galling to the
Marine Corps, whose fine history dates
back to the shores of Tripoli, to have to
sit idly by while we ransom prisoners
from the pirate Castro.
While the administration officials are
doubletalking the Cuban situation,
either our own Committee on Armed
Services or the Committee on Foreign
Affairs should get at the bottom of this
powder keg 90 miles from our shores.
LEWIS L. STRAUSS VIEWS ON
NUCLEAR TEST BAN
(Mr. HOSMER asked and was given
permission to extend his remarks at this
point in the RECORD' and include extra-
neous matter.)
? Mr. HOSMER. Mr. Speaker, during
the past few days I have offered the
papers of several experts on the subject
of nuclear test 'ban + negotiations which
have been collected l by the Republican
conference comrnittOe on that subject.
Following are the rews expressed by
Mr. Strauss, forme Chairman of the
Atomic Energy Commission, in responst
to-inquiries:
Mr. HOSMER. Mr. Stiuss, when you were
Chairman of the Atomfp Energy Commission
you opposed the moratorium on atomic
weapons testing then. As I very well recall,
-you warned that the 1Communists would
drag the negotiations along for years; that
during these negotiatioils, they would prob-
ably cheat by conducting their own under-
ground testing clandesthiely and that they
would abrogate the moritorium when they
felt like, it by testing in the atmosphere.
Even worse, you feared that they would thus
gain on us. Unfortunately, what you pre-
dicted came to pass. What is your view in
the present situation no that negotiations
have been reopened? 1
Mr. STRAUSS. Mr. Hosmet, there is no satis-
faction in being proved Tight on circum-
stances as grim as those We face.
We faithfully observed our commitments,
stopping testing nuclear Weapons from the
autumn' of 1958 until after the Russians
violated the moratorium iniSeptember 1961.
Even after that violation took place it took
US until the spring of the following year to
get our tests started again. I am very
worried about the present situation. We will
be headed into the same kind of imprudent
commitments if, at every time the Russians
aree to talk, we call our test programs off.
I was very glad to note that the underground
testing program had been reinstated last
week. While the Russian people undoubt-
edly want atomic disarmament as much as
we do, we ought to know by now that a
promise by the Soviet Government is worth-
less. This has been demonstrated time after
time but seems to make no Impression here.
It is less than 4 months since the President
told us that the Soviet emissaries who called
to see him at the White House ;last fall had
attempted flatly to deceive him ',about Cuba.
What possible sense is there inl risking our
safety on anything they say?
Mr. HOSMER. You say "risking our safety":
What exactly do you mean by that?
Mr. STRAUSS. The testing of nuclear weap-
ons is necessary to the improvement of those
weapons. We need constantly to improve
our nuclear arsenals so that we will be strong
in the future as we have been in the past?so
strong that an aggressor will be discouraged
from attacking us. It has been frequently
stated that .further testing is unnecessary
because weapons cannot be further im-
proved. This was first said years iago, and
it is often repeated, but it has often been
proved untrue, time and again. The Soviets
in their test series in 1961 exploded 'Weapons
which demonstrated development i ize, if
nothing else. The 3-year moratorium worked
greatly to their advantage and to oar dis-
advantage.
Furthermore, as it is known that we will
not be the first to attack with atomic weap-
ons, it follows that we will be first on the
receiving end of an atomic war. Our stock-
pile must be larger because we may lose part
of it in an attack, and our weapons must
be more predise because they will be needed
to block an attack that has already been
launched.
Some of ourfweapons will also need to be
clean, that is Ito say, free from fallout, as
they may have to be exploded high above
our own or friendly territory to destroy
enemy missileslalready launched at targets
In our own country. Test suspension arrests
the development of these weapons. This is
a severe setback for for us, not the Soviets:-
Every time we improve the missiles which
carry our weapons, we absolutely must test
them with atomic warheads to be sure that
they work together as an effective system.
At our peril, we Cannot afford to repeat the
tragic mistake we \ ma.de with torpedoes be-
tween World Wars I and II when we had
not tested torpedoes with live warheads and
its consequence was to send our submarines
into the Pacific with torpedoes that would
not explode.
Mr. HOSMER. Do you regard the reported
easing of the Soviet objection of onsite in-
spection as a hopeful sign?
Mr. Sxrceiuss. I saw the report that the Rus-
sians had offered three on-site inspections
and that this was regarded as a great break-
through. It is not new.. The Soviets pro-
posed the same thing in 1960, and it was
totally inadequate then. There are many
hundreds of seismic events in the Russian
land mass each year. Any of which could be
the result of a clandestine weapons test. To
be offered the opportunity to inspect three
of the many hundreds, is meaningless as a
safeguard against cheating. Indeed, I am
fearful of a compromise at a slightly larger
number than three, but still an insignificant
number. The figure 10 has been mentioned.
In my opinion that would be completely in-
adequate. 1
Mr. HOSMER. What about the so-called
tamperproof black boxes?
Mr. STRAUSS. There is. no such thing as a
tamperproof detection device and nothing
can take the place of unhampered,' on-site
Inspection by an international team on which
our own people would be adequately repre-
sented.
Mr, HOSMER. Why do you think we are sus-
ceptible to all this pressure to stop our weap-
ons development?
Mr. STRAUSS. Because so many people have
been misled into a vast fear of the effect of
fallout from nuclear test's. The fallout which
would be the result of a nuclear wax would
be a fearsome thing. The very purpose of our
strong weapons posture Is to prevent a nu-
clear war. We test to keep that posture
strong. The fallout from tests and the fall-
out from nuclear war are totally different in
magnitude and. effect.
There are also a large number of people
who think that an agreement to stop testing
Is equivalent to nuclear disarmament. This,
of course, is not true. Indeed, it is a dan-
gerous misconception because it gives a false
sense of security.
Naturally, the Russians want us to stop
testing. The moratorium was of incalculable
value to them. We Must not fall into that
terrible error again.
CONGRESS A BULWARK FOR THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE
(Mr. WYMAN asked and was given
permission to address the House for 1
minute.)
Mr. WYMAN..1 Mr. Speaker, as a
Member of Congress, I resent Roscoe
Drummond's article in this week's Sat-
urday Evening Post. His thesis is that
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