WE LOSE GROUND TO REDS FROM CUBA TO ZANZIBAR

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196.4 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - APPENDIX
. I pledge myself to carry on, in my fumbling
way, and however I can, his noble dedicated
and sacred work.
My idol is not dead.
JOSEPH B. GREGG,
Sunrise Junior High School, Fort
Lauderdale, Fla.
Resolution by the Mississippi Legislature
Urging Defeat of the Civil Rights Bill
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
HON. WILLIAM M. COLMER
OF MISSISSIPPI -
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Saturday, February 8, 1964
Mr. OOLMER. Mr. Speaker, recog-
nizing that the passage of the civil
rights bill would cause terrifying dam-
age to race relations and to our form of
government, the Mississippi Legislature
has. adopted a concurrent resolution
urging the defeat of the bill now before
the House.
On behalf of my colleagues, the gen-
tlemen from Mississippi [Mr. WHITTEN,
Mr. ABERNETHY, Mr. WINSTEAD, and Mr.
WILLIAMS], I include the concurrent
resolution and commend it to the Mem-
bers:
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 3
Concurrent resolution memorializing the
Congress of the United States to defeat
the civil rights bill now before that body
for consideration
Whereas we have witnessed in our time
a gradual erosion of States rights and an
ever-increasing degree of Federal control
over affairs specifically reserved to the States
by the Constitution; and
Whereas there is a clear and unmistakable
trend toward further centralization of power
in the Federal Government and an ever-
increasing restriction on the rights and af-
fairs of our citizens that may be conducted
outside the scope of Federal intervention
and control; and
Whereas we view this trend as a very
definite danger to the existence and per-
petuation of the American way of life as
we have known it since the founding of our
country; and
Whereas we are of the firm conviction
that this danger is not confined to any one
section or area of our Nation, but that it
is inimical to the rights and privileges of
the majority of our citizens in every sec-
tion of our Nation and in every area of
life: economic, social, moral, or religious;
and
Whereas we regard the so-called civil rights
bill now before Congress as the most in-
iquitous effort ever proposed to thwart the
right and choice of the individual, or the
majority, to the pursuit of happiness without
Federal control; and
Whereas we believe that the passage of this
bill further invading the rights of the States
to govern themselves and solve their own
problems would do Irreparable damage to-the
already critical race relations, would widen
the breach already brought about by efforts
to force a social merger of incompatible ele-
ments of society, and would give untold
impetus to the strife and turmoil that has
torn our Nation asunder; and
Whereas we regard education and an effort
to resolve our own problems on a local level
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as more effective in arriving at a solution moved into the Communist orbit and Algeria
than Federal compulsion, and we further and Morocco are edging that way. With
deny the need of any action by Congress to Cuba the first Soviet base in the Western
further restrain and control local affairs by Hemisphere, Panama has now broken with
Federal statute; and the United States and there is increasing
Whereas we regard this issue of such im- Communist-induced trouble in Bolivia, Vene-
portance that we earnestly call upon the zuela, British Guiana and Brazil.
legislatures of other States throughout our Adverse events are, in fact, shadowing
Nation to join us in this expression of our American policy in at least a dozen court-
will to the President, the National Congress, tries in the world, partly under Soviet Com-
the Justice Department, and any and all munist pressure and partly under Chinese
other persons or agencies concerned, and to Communist pressure. It is hard to recall a
call upon them to recognize and respect the period when so many pressures were felt in
rights of States to local self-government, so many different places, and with so little
and to again turn their energies and efforts prospect of an adequate American response.
to the problems of unifying our Nation and Our inability to respond is in some ways
erformi
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ons of government as ala
ming. The old ways are no longer effec-
defined in our Constitution: Now, therefore, tive. Attorney General Kennedy learned in
be it Indonesia that the existence of American aid
Resolved by the Mississippi House of Rep- or the threat of its termination would have
resentatives (the Senate concurring therein), little, If any, effect on President Sukarno's
That this body does hereby memorialize the determination to crush the new British-
Congress of the United States to defeat the oriented nation of Malaysia.
so-called civil rights bill now before that
body and to refrain from such infringement
upon States rights as would result from the
passage of this act; and be it further
Resolved, That copies'of this resolution be
sent to our Senators and Representatives, to
the National Congress, to the press, to. the
legislatures of other States, and to any other
appropriate person or agency. .
Adopted by the house of representatives
January 14, 1964.
WALTER SILLERS,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Adopted by the senate January 23, 1964.
CARROLL GARTIN,
President of the Selzate
We Lose Ground to Reds From Cuba
to Zanzibar
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. STEVEN B. DEROUNIAN
OF NEW YORK
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Saturday, February 8, 1964
Mr. DEROUNIAN. Mr. Speaker, the
present Democratic administration came
to office on the pledge that it would "re-
store America's lost prestige and in-
fluence." This is one of the many prom-
ises it has failed to carry out.
In yesterday's Evening Star, Richard
Wilson enumerates what is lacking in
our foreign policy and proves beyond a
doubt that our prestige is almost non-
existent throughout the world:
FOREIGN NATIONALISM STUMPS - UNITED
STATES-AMERICA CONTINUES TO LOSE
GROUND TO REDS FROM CUBA TO ZANZIBAR
(By Richard Wilson)
U.S. officials, as well as the public,
have become so inured to crisis that they
have difficulty recognizing the basically ad-
verse trend of world events at this time.
There are signs, however, that inside the
Johnson administration, as well as outside
of it, a grave view is being taken of the
present drift.
This Is much more than just a drift; in
some areas of the world it seems a flowing
tide. In southeast Asia there is a rapid
deterioration of the Western position, rang-
ing from Vietnam and Cambodia to Indo-
nesia, Burma, and Laos.
Ghana and Zanzibar, in Africa, have
Many American lives and many hundreds
of millions of dollars, as well as.the American
military genius, have moved the problem in
Vietnam no nearer to a foreseeable solution.
All the goodwill in the world has helped us
little in Ghana. Threatening events in East
Africa might as well have been taking place
on the moon; In fact, we might have known
more about them if they had.
The picture does not look too bad until
it Is studied as a whole and then it is seen
that the Communist position in terms of
world politics is far advanced over what it
was 4 years ago.
It is much easier to define what is wrong
than to supply any kind of remedy. One
thing that is wrong is that we have never
been able to carry through a policy which
identifies our interests with the rising na-
tionalist interests in many countries in the
world.
We do not know how to deal with the
.
rising tide of nationalism whether it is In
France, Cuba or Panama. Governments rise
to power on a wave of hostility to the United
States, or soon thereafter develop this hos-
tility either genuinely or as a bargaining
position.
This cannot be explained away as merely
Communist-induced and a part of the Com-
munist world revolution. The nationalist
feeling runs deep and often needs no Com-
munist stimulus, as, for example, in Cuba
and Panama. But we never seem to be on
the side of the nationalist in time to prevent
a prior alinement with the Communists.
This may merely be in the nature of
things. We stand for stability while the
Communists stand for revolution,
We only know that in the past 4 years the
nationalist problem has not gone away but
has become more varied and widespread.
Every now and then we get a new taste of
it: the rioting in Panama, an unexpected
coup in Vietnam, a military coup in some
Latin American country.
For a time we have quiet on the more
exposed frontiers of the world. Then our
traffic into Berlin is stopped or a plane is
shot down.
Next it may be a renewed Chinese Com-
munist drive into India or Uganda may turn
into a one-party Soviet-alined state, or In-
donesia may go the way of Cambodia.
We may have a lull in the cold war with
Russia, but an objective assessment of events
should be convincing to President Johnson
that his major problem is to arrest the con-
tracting influence of the United States in
world affairs.
The Democratic administration came to
office on the pledge that it would restore
America's lost prestige and influence. It has
not yet done so. We have lost ground since
1960 from Cuba to. Zanzibar.
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CONGRESS[ONAL RECORD - APPINDIX February
Enforcement in Hotels and Cafes
EXTENSION CF REMARKS
or
HON. THOMAS C. ABERNETHY
OF MISSISSIPPI
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Saturday, February 8, 1964
Mr. ABERNETHY. Mr. Speaker, in
view of the fact that the House now has
under consideration the so-called civil
rights bill, I think it most appropriate
that the views of Mr. David Lawrence,
which appeared in ,he press of yester-
day, be included in the RECORD. The
column of Mr. Lawrence follows:
ENFORCEMENT IN HOTELS AND CAFES-MOUN-
TAIN or LEGAL HEADA(".HES EXPECTED IN DEAL-
ING WITH PROPOSED EIGHTS LAW
(By David Lawrence)
It looks now as if enactment of a civil
rights law prohibiting racial discriminaton
in hotels, motels, and eating places may prove
to be a boomerang. It could hasten the day
when the legislation itself will become a dead
letter due to an inability on the part of the
Federal Government, even with all Its re-
sources, to carry out an effective enforce-
ment operation.
Under existing constitutional law. there Is
no sanction for the legislation. But the
hope of its sponsors is that the Supreme
Court will reverse all earlier decisions and
bow to the advocates of integration.
Attempts to enfor?,e even constitutional
laws sometimes have resulted in bitter feel-
ing, rather than an srntable adjustment of
differences. The Nation's experience with the
liquor prohibition lams is a case In point. In
fact, after a dozen years of frustration over
the problem of enforcement, another amend-
ment to the Constitt tion turned this whole
issue back to the States.
Already the effort to desegregate public
schools is backfiring. The boycotts and dis-
turbances in the North are more numerous
than in the South, and are often char-
acterized by violence. A New York City
newspaper reported ,he other day that the
Negro boycott of the public schools there
"was in disregard for the law." and that It
did more "to alienate black and white, and
alienate them when they are young so they
can carry it with them forever, than any-
thing that has happened in this city in 25
years."
Some progress toward adjustment of racial
disputes has been rrade in various parts of
the country, but the may be adversely af-
fected when the public accommodations
rules become known to the public and when
the problem of enforcement Is more widely
discussed than it is today. One business-
man writes of this p'r'ospect as follows:
"Many large hotels and restaurants are
now integrated, but reserve the right not to
serve guests for dozens of reasons: Women
in shorts or beachwear, men without jacket
or tie, men or woven who are loud, dis-
orderly. or drunk, etc. Under Federal law,
how could such a dining room refuse to
serve a drunken Negro and not be subject
to litigation? Asid: from the trouble and
expense of going into court. bow could the
hotel prove the Neg?o's rejection was due to
disorderly conduct or excessive drinking if
the plaintiff claims discriminaton?"
Motels often do not rent to travelers with
local license tags oa their cars, or without
luggage, or if they are in any way suspicious.
This will provide excuses for discrimination.
Undoubtedly word will get around in various
communities that certain hotels, motels, and
eating places actually do discriminate
racially, and only white persons will be wel-
come. tobody will advertise such a fact, bux:
it will )e spread by word of mouth.
The )roblem often Is really not one in-
volving any antiracial feeling on the part of
the mctei owner himself, but he discovers
frequer tly that he can get more business b:r
discrimination than by nondiscrimination.
The rublic accommodations law has been
urged es a way to overcome these defects, but
the prohibitton experience argues the other
way-teat the businesses which comply with
the lav may find themselves at a disadvan-
tage w ule their competitors use subterfuges
to den- their facilities to those they do not
choose to serve.
In the prohibition era, moreover, it toot
a vast krmy of Federal agents and large legli
staffs to carry out an enforcement program
involving customer relations. But bootleg-
ging fi )uriehed and speakeasies were estat-
lished to sell liquor in deflance of the lax
and ti e Constitution. Some persons were
jailed. but a far greater number defied tie
law.
The big debate on the public accommods -
tions ~~ection will come in the Senate, but
all Incications now are that the legislation
will be enacted into law before summer. This
means that the enforcement problem will he
before the country soon thereafter, and a
Mea iwhlle, the school-integration prop- Y'He stated also, "when I went to Washing-
lem is reaching Its most acute stage because ton for consultation in the late fall of 1962,
neighs erhood schools will no longer be pr.)- Edwin Martin, the then Assistant Secretary
tested from invasion by those who live out-
side the neighborhood. Efforts now are be- of State for Latin American Affairs, stepped ing it ado to produce a racial balance by In.
We here In the State Department will
iransl orting students from all parts of a city ordinate Lansing Collins, who reported to
or cot my in order to integrate a larger and take rare of any discussions about Panama
larger number of Negroes with whites. with the CIA ourselves. Further, you are
Thi:. is encouraging enrollments in private not to have discussions with Members of
bitter e. In some northern areas there is Congress on the Hili,' Martin directed."
bitter leer among white citizens who cannot Farland met President Kennedy at San
afford to send their children to private Salvador last March.
Integration. and who resent the enforcement of "president Kennedy did not know about
Martin's directive," Farland continued, "and
Theoretically, the Supreme Court neter in Martin's presence he crossed up Martin
orders d integration as such. but merely c e- on the congressional angle.
claret that segregation in public education Is "The President told me to see inquiring
court t decision not e. There has been no high congressional leaders on my next trip home.
cision on whether, under the Cl.- eI had nothing but courtesy, understanding,
atltutlon, the States can retain their right and so far as I know, approval from Presi
to rec u)re children living in a certain neigh- dent Kennedy personally and directly."
borheod to attend schools In the diatri.)te Farland described the CIA as "underzeal-
geogr aphically prescribed. our in knowing what was happening in
Muzzling Our Panama $xpert
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
or
Ht)N. STEVEN B. DEROUNIAN
Or NEW YORK
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE113
Saturday, February 8, 1964
M '. DEROUNIAN. Mr. Speaker,
shocking though it is that we still have
a vacancy in our Ambassadorship to
Pan una since last August, it Is un"3e-
lievf ble that the former Ambassador,
the Honorable Joseph S. Farland, was
eomletely neglected by Secretary of
State Rusk and the other do-gooders
in the State Department upon his re-
turf from Panama.
H Ivry J. Taylor, in the Palm Beach
Sun-Sentinel of February 3, graphically
portrays this deliberate snub of someDne
whc might have helped forestall our
pre: ent crisis:
Ous EXPERT ON PANAMA WAS MUZZLED
(By Henry J. Taylor)
What really happened to Ambassado:? to
Pan una Joseph S. Farland should explain
much about what confronts President John-
son.
Farland is an ex-FBI agent, counterintel-
ligence expert, chief of mission for three and
a half years in Panama, acclaimed as one of
the most successfull ambassadors we have
ever had in Latin America.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk told the
House Foreign Affairs Committee January
15 he was taken by surprise by events in
Panama.
The committee asked whether his Depart-
ment had fully consulted the Ambassador.
"Oh. yes, Mr. Farland has been completely
debriefed." Rusk testified.
Farland has stated publicly he was asked
nothing.
He said Rusk apparently relied on a sub-
ordinate, Lansing Collins, who reported to
him after engaging Farland In "a short, and
largely irrelevant conversation," that is all.
"When I arrived home In August," Farland
said, "and the State Department circulated
its customary notice to appropriate agencies
listing returned ambassadors available for
consultation, a man in the White House
went to work.
"His name is Dalph Dunley. On whose
authority he acted I do not know. But Dun-
ley telephoned the various agencies, includ-
Panama and overzealous In building a CIA
empire In the zone."
"The station Chief had exposed himself as
a prominent figure in the high social world."
Farland stated. "They simply did not know
what was going on. I spelled this out re-
peatedly to both the State Department and
CIA's Washington headquarters in terms of
Isthmus and American security. Neither
acted. It took me nearly a year to get the
station Chief removed."
The Positive Approach for Conservatives
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. BRUCE ALGER
OF TEXAS
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Friday, February 7, 1964
Mr, ALDER. Mr. Speaker, a favorite
trick of the radical-liberals is to advo-
cate all sorts of projects that strike at
the very root of our freedoms and then
charge those who oppose such attacks
on liberty as being negative.
It is time for conservatives to point
out that the positive approach to the
issues of our time is to preserve this Re-
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