BRITISH EXPERT TERMS FAT-RED THEORY A FALSE BASIS FOR TRADE WITH CUBANS

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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - APPENDIX
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of all il'einj'be}'s of?ongress and all citizens
of the Natfon who-? foster the American spirit
in war 4.4 In peace. i hank you.
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EXTENSION OF REMARKS
HON. CHARLES McC._MATHIAS, JR.
of xl%nyzA,No
IN THE SO'USE'' OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, February 27,1964
Mr. MATHIAS. Mr,, Speaker, in his
book'"The 20 Years Crisis," author Carr
purports that the basic problem of
utopian theories for world peace lies in
the fact that none of these -theories
recognize the forces of change as a nec-
essary element in the conduct of world
and human events.
It is time we recognized the forces of
change and channel them into peaceful
and constructive directions. A free en-
terprise system" such as we have in this
coukitry is a system which must allow
change to take place in a constructive
and orderly manner rather than at-
tempting to keep the lid on the boiling
pot until it results in an explosion.
The damage of ignoring these forces
Is evident, in recent, events which have
occurred throughout the world indicat-
ing that U.S. foreign policy is in need
of some constructive changes.
I submit for inclusion here an editorial
from the January 20 issue of the Fred-
erick (Md.) News which clearly points
out the seriousness of the situation
1WHERE's U1S. PRESTIGE?
There hasn't been much said since, the 1,960
campaign about U.S. prestige abroad. That
was One 171, the Iuain -points of attack then
against the Eisenhower administration. Its
victim, Richard M. Nixon, refrained in his
address to Mtli6 American Society of News-
paper Editors from discussing it last April.
He felt that as the, strongest nation in the
world, it is our responsibility to lead, not to
follow the`forcesof freedom.
But it is not the forces of freedom alone.
that are low on America today, it is the up-
start nations encouraged by the Soviet Un-
Ion's policy of aiding so-called wars of libera-
tion. Look at Zanzibar, for instance, the
latest in a number of tiny nations that has
spat in Uncle Sam's eye with impunity.
The revolutionary President, Abeid Kar-
nme, personally led a group including his
foreign minister and soldiery and put the
try, Frederick P. Picard, 3d, who was acting Today, American schoolchildren commit to
as charge d'affairs, under-house arrest. Then .,memory the names, dates and events that
.Karume placed Donald K. Peterson a third the Courant once committed to print. In
secretary in the 11.S. Embassy, also under 1765 the paper published a wrathful edi-
house arrest, and detained the four Ameri- torial ("The most arbitrary monarchs in the
Can newsmen on the island. This, was Ka- universe") and suspended publication for
rune's way of expressing his anger that the "five weeks to protest the Stamp Act just
United States had apt rushed to recognize enforced by England. Thomas Paine's revo-
his government. He released them 24 hours lutionary tracts were carried in full in the
later. . Courant; so was the Declaration of Inde-
There, Sias, also. Prince Norodom Sihanouk,
of Cambodia, who decided he wanted no more
of the U,S, foreign aid, after riding the gravy
train for many millions, and, deciding that
-neutrality would serve his nation best while
5orheast Asia was a battleground. He
wants international guarantees of his coun-
try's neutrality similar to Laos, where Com-
munists have continued their armed occupa-
tion of a large part of the country.
Closer to home, there was the burning and
trampling on the American flag in the recent
rioting in Panama definitely linked to Castro
agents who appeared with bombs and rifles
the minute that flag incident occurred.
"Instead of worrying about U.S. prestige
abroad, these and other incidents show that
our concern should not be with what may
be popular for the moment, but what is right
for the United States in the long pull. Com-
promising our principles has brought the
United States to a low estate indeed when
such things can happen,
Older Than the Country
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. EMILIO Q. DADDARIO
OF CONNECTICUT
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, March 4, 1964
Mr. DADDARIO. Mr. Speaker, we in
Hartford, Conn., take great pride in be-
ing the home of the Hartford Courant,
which this year observes its 200th anni-
versary. This makes the Hartford Cou-
'rant the oldest newspaper in the United
States, preceding, in fact, the independ-
ence of the Nation itself. Such continu-
ity should not go unnoticed and indeed
the publisher of Time magazine has
caused it to be commented on in its
March 13 issue. It is an interesting ac-
count of this historic event and I be-
lieve it should be called to the attention
.of the Members
OLDER THAN THE COUNTRY
The news from Boston was sketchy and
unconfirmed. Still, no newspaper that took
pride in its independence could ignore it.
So the Connecticut Courant, in Hartford,
boldly displayed the item: "We hear from
Boston that last Thursday evening, between
300 and 400 boxes of the celebrated East
India tea, by some accident which happened
in an attempt to get it on shore, fell over-
board-that the boxes burst open and the tea
was swallowed up by the vast abyss."
When that historical incident from Amer-
ica's, past appeared in the Courant in the
issue of December 21, 1773, the paper was
already a veteran of 9 years. It had staked
a proud and exclusive claim to a title that it
still holds. This year the Hartford Courant
observes its 200th anniversary, a chronologi-
cal fact that makes it the oldest newspaper
in the United States '-an Institution some
12 years senior to the Nation itself.
' A title contested, with considerable spirit
and flimsy documentation, by the Philadel-
phia Inquirer, which can trace its ancestry
back to 1829-or. 65 years after the Courant's
birth.
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pendence-on an Inside page, and under the
mildest of headlines: "A Declaration by the
Representatives of the United States of
America."
George Washington was not only the sub-
ject of Courant stories, he was a reader and
advertiser. On March 14, 1796, he bought
half a page in the paper to offer some of his
Virginia farmland for lease to "reap farmers
of good reputation,""and none others need
apply." Thomas Jefferson sued the paper
for libel after an 1806 Courant accusation
that he had secretly bribed France to win
its support. He lost his case in the U.S.
Supreme Court.
The Courant's founder, a traveling printer
named Thomas Green, piloted his paper for
'Only three years. Then he rejoined a brother
}n New Haven, surrendering command of the
Co rant to Ebenezer Watson, one of his own
printers. Young Watson enlisted the Cou-
rant in the cause of independence, but he did
not live to see the dream.come true or his
paper prosper. Smallpox killed him during
the Revolutionary War, leaving his young
Widow Hannah, mother of five, to manage
the shop. She managed well, In 1778, when
the Courant's paper mill burned to the
ground, Hannah talked the Connecticut gen-
eral assembly into sponsoring a statewide
lottery, and from the proceeds ($31,000) she
was given $5,000 to rebuild the mill.
The Courant continued to prosper, but in
a diminishing corned of a rapidly expand-
ing-national map. As soon as the Repub-
lican Party was founded in 1854, the Cour-
ant joined it, and has never left. The paper
has since broken ranks to endorse only one
Democrat for any office. It urged Hartford
to elect Thomas Spellacy for mayor In 1935.
The Courant's influence in its own bailiwick
can be measured by the fact that Spellacy
was elected.
SATISFIED
Hartford and Connecticut now describe
the horizon of a paper that in another cen-
tury made compulsory reading for U.S. Pres-
idents. Its causes have come to be on the
parochial side. Where once it opposed wo-
men's suffrage, direct election of U.S: Sen-
ators and Franklin D. Roosevelt, now it
fights for fluoridation and the council-man-
ager plan. Where once it championed the
right of the American Colonies to be free,
today it opposes the right of a Hartford
movie theater to eject the Courant's movie
critic.
Wire services and syndicated columnists
are relied on to report what goes on outside
Connecticut. But in its own yard, the
Courant can't be beat. In Willimantic, Old
Saybrook, Simsbury and other familiar
towns, the paper keeps up an Industrious
network of 13 bureaus, 25 staffers and more
than 100 correspondents. One of the more
dependable of these, Alice "Clover" Pinney,
retired only last year after 54 straight years
of covering Farmington, Conn., during which
time she never missed a single fire.
NO MORE REVOLUTIONS
The Courant's present publisher, John IT.
Reitemeyer, 65, joined the paper as a part-
time reporter in 1921, worked his patient
way to the top by 1947, and has since ad-
dressed himself to the task of overtaking
the afternoon competition, the Hartford
Times.
A mere 147 years old, the Times is a
Democratic daily in a Democratic city. It
has led the Courant in circulation for 40
years, but the gap is closing again; circula-
tion now is 128,500 to 124,000. In Relte-
meyer's careful stewardship, the Courant is
not likely to play a role in any more rev-
olutions. It seems satisfied to remain the
best paper in Hartford, Conn., and the oldest
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-British Expert Terms Fat-Red Theory a
False Basis for Trade With Cubans
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
or
HON. GLENARD P. LIPSCOMB
Or CALIFORNIA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Monday, March 9, 1964
Mr. LIPSCOMB. Mr. Speaker, addi-
tional evidence is at hand that people
in Western European countries who op-
pose trade giveaways and credit to Com-
munist countries are speaking out to op-
pose their freewheeling governments on
this issue.
The following article from the Wash-
ington Post, March 9, 1964, is an exam-
ple of voices who are questioning the
fallacies that fat Communists are nicer,
that trade with Communist nations nec-
essarily leads to political detente, or that
expanded East-West trade can be inde-
'pendent of political factors.
These voices can help us budge the
attitudes of West European politicians
toward solid, needed trade curbs to
Communist countries if we back them
up. The administration is making a
tragic error In not pushing hard enough.
Its irresolute, halfway policy-sales of
enormous quantities of wheat to the
hard up Soviets, but timid scolding of the
British for their Cuban bus sales-is a
proven flop. We should get out and
muster support from among the sub-
stantial body of Western European opin-
ion which realizes the grim necessity of
using trade as a political weapon against
the Communist threat, in the same way
that Communists would surely use trade
against us it they had enough economic
strength to do so. Let us not, as the ad-
ministration is hinting, wreck our own
trade controls simply because West Eu-
ropean governments at the moment will
not go along with stiff controls.
The article follows:
BRITISH EXPERT TERwa FAT-RED THEORY A
FALSE BASIS FOR TRADE WITH CUBANS
(By Robert H. Estabrook)
LONDON, March 8.--One of Britain's lead-
ing authorities on the Soviet Union took
issue today with the thesis that a fat Com-
munist was less dangerous than a lean one.
Writing In the London Sunday Times, Prof.
Leonard Schapiro castigated both Prime Min-
ister Douglas-Home and the Labor Party
leader, Harold Wilson, for seeking to apply
what he termed a fallacious argument to
trade with Cuba.
To contend that the Soviet Unon is more
reasonable because it is fatter, Schapiro said,
"attaches quite unreal importance to the
relationship between what the population of
Russia wants and tae policy pursued by its
leaders."
The overwhelming reason for discernible
changes in Soviet policy, he contended, is
the existence of nuclear weapons and the in-
advisability of actions that might lead to
armed conflict with Vile United States.
"No amount of trade with Cuba," he as-
serted, "is likely to produce the kind of fac-
tors which in the case of the Soviet Union
may in time lead to closer and more harmon-
\tous poltical relations.
"On the other bend, to ignore the very
natural apprehensions of our ally, the United
States, about the shoring up of a power
which is avowedly dedicated to spreading
Communist rule over the American conil-
nent, :nay lose us much more than we should
ever grin from the profits of Cuban trade."
Sch