CONGRESSIONAL RECORD--SENATE

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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 31, 2000
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: August 3, 1967
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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And this is the platform on which the
Congress must build its future attitude
toward riots.
We cannot let the riots turn us away
from the unfinished business of America.
We cannot let the riots turn us away
froth supporting President Johnson's ex-
cellent urban programs to transform
America.
We cannot let the riots blind us to the
accomplishments of the past and our
hopes of the future.
We now have an unparalleled oppor-
tunity to restore faith and peace among
the citizenry.
Let us do it now.
I ask unanimous consent to have
printed in the RECORD an editorial en-
titled "L Plea for Reason-and Justice,"
published in the New York Post of
July 27.
There being no objection, the editorial
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD,
as follows:
A PLEA TOR REASON AND JUSTICE
Four Negro leaders who have long fought
the battle for justice have issued an appeal
that deserves to be heard in the black ghet-
tos, In the white suburbs, In the halls of
Congress-by every segment of the nation-
if we are to resume the quest for equality
and end the futile turmoil In the streets.
"There is no Injustice which justifies the
present destruction of the Negro commu-
nity and Its people," declared the statement
signed by Martin Luther King Jr., A. Philip
Randolph, Roy Wilkins and Whitney Young
Jr. They added:
"We call upon Negro citizens throughout
the nation to forego the temptation to dis.
regard the law. This does not mean that
we should submit tamely to joblessness, in-
adequate housing, poor schooling, insult,
humiliation and attack. It does require a
redoubling of efforts through legitimate
means to end these wrongs and disabilities.
We appeal not only to black Americans, but
also to our fellow white citizens, who are
not blameless ... The 00th Congress has
exhibited an Incredible indifference to hard-
ships of the ghetto dwellers."
In cold figures, the "indifference" amounts
to this: the projected urban anti-poverty
pllncation has been more than halved by#
the Administration, and is now only $1,000, ?
000,000. Congress has shown signs of cutting
it still further. Vietnam war spending has
also cut deeply into other domestic pro-
grams-primarily school aid-which could
help answer the needs of the lower depths.
But, as the four leaders assert, "the riots
have not contributed , to the eradica-
tion of these just complaints."
We echo their urgent words: "No one
benefits under mob law. Let's end it howl"
Then let us try to begin anew the fight for
equity and decency that cannot be won by
wild looting, aimless lawlessness-or smug
apathy.
U.S. SALES OF WEAPONS
Mr. BYRD of West Virginia. IVr. Presi-
dent, I ask unanimous consent to insert
in the RECORD an editorial which ap-
mared in the July 24, 1967, edition of
the Charleson, W. Va., Gazette, entitled
"United States Can't Honestly Seek
Peace, Sell Weapons, Too."
There being no objection, the editorial
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD,
as follows:
UNITED STATES CAN'T HONESTLY SEEC PEACE,
SELL WEAPONS, Too
It stands to reason that a Nasser armed
to the teeth with planes, tanks, guns and
ammunition is going to be more belligerent
and more Inclined to make warlike moves
against a neighbor (such as closing the Gulf
of Aqaba) than a Nasser without arms but
with a good supply of agricultural equipment
to keep his people busy.
It Is equaUy logical that in underdeveloped
nations, where the masses are 111 fed, 111
clothed, ill housed, and largely illiterate, their
leaders would serve better by upgrading the
economy and aiding humanity than by mak-
ing war, which they can do only if they have
the armaments.
Nasser Is mentioned only by way of ex-
ample, since he was involved In the latest
war to break out, and the same could be said
about other leaders on a number of conti-
nents.
It Is not surprising, therefore, that mem-
bers of the U.S. Senate, among others, are
concerned with the U.S. military aid pro
gram as a threat to International peace.
Unquestionably, as the major arms sup-
plier of the Arab states, the Soviet Union
bears a large share of responsibility for the
Middle East war, even though most of Its
investment wound up as useless hardware in
the desert. But American hands are anything
but clean, for our own government also fed
the Middle East arms race which finally
erupted In predictable war.
As Son. Frank Church, D-Idaho, noted
In a recent Senate speech on, "Arsenal Di-
plomacy," the U.S. has granted $322 mil-
lion in military aid to the Arab states since
World War II, while selling Israel $28 mil-
lion in arms.
Church viewed President Johnson's call
for reporting to the United Nations of arms
shipments to the area as a constructive pro-
posal, but said It will not stanch the flow
of arms to the Middle East. As a second
step back from the brink, he urged that
the U.S. make very effort to reach agree-
ment among the suppliers of arms to the
region-the great powers and notably
Russia-on an arms embargo or a stringent
arms limitation applicable to Arab and
Israeli alike.
Certainly, for the future peace of the
tl t Russia and
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platter, much of it to countries far removed
from Communist neighbors, is that it serves
to holster resistance to subversion from
within.
But, said Church, "Vietnam is a poig-
nant example of the failure of American
guns to create loyalty out of fear and dis-
trust. Massive Injections of U.S. weapons,
ammunition, equipment, nnci supplies failed
to turn the tide against the Insurgents. Our
own troops had to he summoned and the
war converted into an American engage-
ment."
Another argument for the sale of the
wares of war is that it helps to erase our
balance of payments deficits.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee
sees It differently: "The U.S. balance of
payments is not in such perilous condition
that it has to be salvaged by taking blood
money from poorer countries, If we turn
down every sales request for useless mili-
tary equipment to nations which cannot af-
ford such expensive baubles, the effect on
our balance of payments would scarcely be
noticed."
Church also points out that foreign armies
are a risky Investment and that we pay
a heavy political cost for supporting them,
adding:
"In any poor country of Asia, Africa, or
Latin America, where there Is an uncon-
scionable concentration of wealth the army
is usually the hate symbol of the status
quo. Military governments, however stable
they may appear, tend to be brittle as well
as repressive."
As Church sees it, the greatest danger
to world peace-assuming we can prevent
the war in Vietnam from widening into a
world war-is from scme regional dispute
igniting into a conflagration which spreads
out of the control of those who supplied the
arms which touched It off.
The United States should get out of this
dirty business of giving or selling arms to
start wars, and should push for U.N action
to control regional arms races. Then we could
talk In good conscience about world pence.
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Middle East, it is obv
the U.S. must agree to refrain from fuelin
a now arms race there. It is also self-evidenARMICI3AEL STATEMENTS IN CUBA
that even without such an agreement, we
GO BEYOND FREE SPEECH
have nothing to gain from further arms
shipments to the Arabs. And surely the time Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. President, the
has come to revise the whole policy of statements of Stokely Carmichael in
"arsenal diplomacy" which has made our Cuba, making threats against President
country the dominant supplier of weapons Johnson, British Prime Minister Harold
to the world.
Church had some interesting, even fright- Wilson, and other high U.S. officials, run
ening, figures to offer on the subject. far beyond the reasonable limits of free-
"In the eyes of much of the world," he dom of speech.
said, "the United States seems more in- I have long been concerned about the
tent on furnishing swords than plowshares. operations of the Central Intelligence
on foreign the past years, 8havo billion in milt- bestowed Agency and have studied its operations
tort' foreign vehicles governments t r and governments sts weapons, , $7 7 billion in air- most carefully, but his assertions that
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craft, $5 bilion in ammunition, $2 billion In "the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
ships, $2 billion In communications equip- has international license to kill, and if
ment, $1.5 billion in missiles and $3 billion the CIA continues to assassinate fighters
in other supplies. Services granted in the and guerrillas, vengeance must be taken
form of base construction, training repair, against Western leaders," are wholly
and spare parts amounted to an additional without substance and can serve only
$8 billion, for a staggering total of $37 bit- to prejudice the proper and defensible
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As if to augment these massive gifts of intelligence activities of the U.S, Gffern-
arms, Church said the Defense Departmen meat,
is now engaged in a mushrooming sale
campaign. Direct sales to foreign govern- HIGH-SPEED GROUND TRANSPOR-
ments already exceed $16 billion, while TATION PROGRAM
Pentagon officials anticipate orders worth
another $15 billion in the next decade. Mr. SCOTT. Mr. President, I ask
"Today," said Church, "the federal gov- , unanimous consent that a statement
ernment is the principal arms dispenser of which I submitted today to the Senate
the world; giving away, advancing credit,
and promoting the sale of a volume of Committee on Appropriations regarding
arms more titan six times that of our nearest the proposed appropriations for the De-
rival, the Soviet Union." ? partment of Transportation be printed
One broad justification for serving up in the RECORD.
American military hardware on a global There being no objection, the state-
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