CARMICHAEL STATEMENTS IN CUBA GO BEYOND FREE SPEECH

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• Publication Date: August 3, 1967
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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
from 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 "/. 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 FOR 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 901;h 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
allocation 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 out 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 nowt"
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. lair. Presi-
dent, I ask unanimous consent to insert
in the RECORD an editorial which ap-
ts aced 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:
UNrrED STATES CAN'T HONESTLY SEEK 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 equal)y logical that in underdeveloped
nations, where the masses are 111 fed, ill
clothed, Ill housed, and largely illiterate, their
leaders would serve better by upgrading the
economy and aiding humanity than by snak-
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 Sen. Frank Church, D-Idaho, noted
in a recent Senate speech one "Arsenal Di-
plomacy," the U.S. has granted $322 mil-
lion in military aid to the Arab states since
World War IT, 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
Middle East, it is obvious that Russia and
platter, much of it to countries far removed
from Communist neighbors, is that it serves
to bolster 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, and supplies failed
to turn the tide against the insurgents. Our
own troops had to be 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 in 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 acme 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 peace.
the U.S. must agree to refrain from fuelin
a now arms race there. It is also self-evtd
that even without such en CARMICIIAEL STATEMENTS IN CUBA
an agreement,we
have nothing to gain from further arms
shipments to the Arabs. And surely the time
has come to revise the whole policy of
"arsenal diplomacy" which has made our
country the dominant supplier of weapons
to the world.
Church had some interesting, even fright-
ening, figures to offer on the subject.
"In the eyes of much of the world," he
said, "the United States seems more in-
GO BEYOND FREE SPEECH
Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. President, the
statements of Stokely Carmichael in
Cuba, making threats against President
Johnson, British Prime Minister Harold
Wilson, and other high U.S. officials, run
far beyond the reasonable limits of free-
dom of speech.
tent on furnishing swords than plowshares. ` " ? --rs -11 uvilcul-lieQ aooue the
During the past 17 years, we have bestowed operations of the Central Intelligence
on foreign governments $8 billion in mill- Agency and have studied its operations
tary vehicles and weapons, $7 billion in air- Most carefully, but his assertions that
craft, $6 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 billion, without substance and can serve 6n]y
lion dispensed abroad staggering
d since sines 1995060. ," of $37 bil- to prejudice the proper and defensible
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arms, Church said the Defense Department meet.
is now engaged in a mushrooming sale
campaign. Direct sales to forelen. eovern-
Pentagon officials anticipate orders worth TATION PROGRAM
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
the world; giving away, advancing credit, which I submitted today to the Senate
and promoting the sale of a volume of Committee on Appropriations regarding
arms more than 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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