ANTI-COMMUNIST WORK OF NATIONAL STUDENTS ASSOCIATION

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antidemocratic tactics which NSA has
used to gain entrance to American col
lege campuses and to establish its false-
claim as the representatives of American
students. Most important, he shows that,
NSA's association with the CIA actually
pulled the student group further to the
left in the expression of its opinions than
it would have been had it been left alone.
Mr. President, I recommend Mr.
Thompson's devastating article to the
attention of Senators. I ask unanimous
.consent that his article, entitled "Why
College Students Should Reject the
NSA," published in Human Events for
April 1, 1967, be printed in the Appendix
of the RECORD.
There being no objection, the article
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD,
as follows:
WHY COLLEGE STUDENTS SHOULD REJECT
NSA-EACH YEAR MORE SCHOOLS LEAVE THE
NATIONAL STUDENT ASSOCIATION AND EACH
YEAR-PUSHED BY TIIE CIA, IT Now TURNS
OUT-T.EiIE GROUP MOVES FURTHER TO THE
LEFT
(By Ken Thompson)
When the sensational story of the Central
Intelligence Agency's secret financing of the
National Student Association was unveiled
on the front pages of America's newspapers
last month, a great many people became
aware of the existence of NSA for the first
time.
Although the association is now more than
20 years old and claims to be the largest,
most influential student organization in the
country, a relatively small segment of the
population had heard of it or knew anything
about it before its link with the CIA was
exposed.
Probably even the vast majority of the mil-
lion-plus students that NSA claims to "rep-
resent" in this country and abroad have been
almost totally anaware of how the organiza-
tion has been "representing" them. A good
many undoubtedly had no idea that it was,
in fact, "representing" them.
The reason is not difficult to explain. In
the first place, there is no such thing as indi-
vidual membership in NSA. From its incep-
tion, the organization has concentrated its
recruiting efforts on currying favor with a,
handful of leaders on college and university
campuses.
Where these efforts have been successful,
entire Student bodies, through the action of
their student governments, have been for-
mally affiliated with NSA-even though, in
many cases, the vast majority of the students
on these campuses may have been completely
unaware that they were joining anything.
Or, in a great many cases where the students
have been informed of the affiliation, they
have been overwhelmingly opposed to it.
Normally, however, they have been given
no opoprtunity to register their disapproval
or to prevent or annul the affiliation. Only
in rare instances have NSA and its campus
agents run the risk of going directly to the
'student body for a vote of approval-and for.
a very good reason.
On the few occasions that it has taken
that risk or been forced to face a student ref-
erendum, NSA has usually been overwhelmed
by a landslide ofvotes against affiliation.
Yet in spite of this, NSA claims to speak
for some 1.3 million students enrolled in
the colleges and universities whose student
governments are formally affiliated with it.
In fact, it often presumes to "represent" and
accurately reflect the viewpoint of.all Amer-
ican students. This, of course, is prepos-
terous, for-according to its own figures--
only 16 percent of the schools which are eli-
gible to "join" NSA have chosen to affiliate
with it. And the number has declined stead-
ily for the past half decade.
SELF-APPOINTED SPOKESMEN
From a membership peak of some 350
schools in 1961, the number has dropped to
approximately 275. According to the latest
records available, 78 colleges and universi.
ties-among them some of the nation's larg.
est-have severed their prior connections
with NSA during the past five or six years.
Another 23 schools considered joining the
organization but rejected the idea.
Even NSA's claim to "represent" the rela-
tively small number of schools which have
retained their membership is questionable
at best. Normally less than half of those
schools even bother to send delegates to
NSA's annual "Congresses," where the orga-
nization takes stands on a wide range of
controversial subjects, purporting to repre-
sent the viewpoint or consensus of the aver-
age American student. And most of the
delegates who.do attend the "Congresses" are
not democratically elected by their fellow
:students whom they purport to represent.
What it boils down to is that NSA, in
truth, speaks for only a small group of self-
appointed individuals who represent no one
but themselves. Until the CIA-NSA scandal
exploded in the headlines, the vast majority
of America's students were probably un-
aware of the organization's existence. Much
.less were they cognizant that it presumed
to "represent" them.
The National Student Association, of
course, is no stranger to readers of Human
Events. Throughout its existence, NSA has
been exposed in this publication as one of
the principal vehicles for left-wing agitation
and propaganda among the nation's youth.
It has also been an extremely vulnerable-
and often all too willing-target for infiltra-
tion by the far left.
According to Ramparts magazine, which
first blew, the whistle on NSA's secret CIA
financing, NSA "played a crucial role in the
formation of [Stokely Carmichael's] Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Commitee and was
one of its staunchest supporters." It has
since cooperated with this radical "Black
Power" outfit on several joint projects.
In a recent issue of Commonweal maga-
zine, Wilson Carey McWilliams-who has
been active in NSA and other leftist youth
groups-spotlighted another one of .the as-
sociation's important contributions to the
American political scene.
"It might be pointed out," noted McWil-
liams, "that so radical a group as SDS [Stu-
dents for a Democratic Society] was born as
a result of, and incubated during, the Na-
tional Congresses of NSA, and SDS leaders
:like Paul Potter were national officers of the
Association. There is a charm in the thought
of CIA, however indirectly, financing SDS!"
Not many months ago, NSA's current presi-
dent, Eugene Groves, shared a platform with
'Bettina Aptheker, a self-proclaimed Com-
munist, at a meeting of various leaders of the
"New Left" who assembled to draw up plans
.for a national student strike this spring to
protest America's "aggression" in Viet Nam,
Groves describes himself as a "left-wing
. Democrat " Ed Schwartz, who is NSA's na- -
Finally, it Is not disputed that our Dec-
laration of Independence was, strictly speak-
ing, illegal, just as any rebellion is illegal,
as was the American declaration of Inde-
pendence, until it was successful!
On moral grounds, however, it would seem
that Rhodesia had just as good a case, if
not a better one, in 1965 than America did
in 1776.
This paper points out that Independent
Rhodesia has not yet been recognised by
any other country. Nevertheless it has
peacefully maintained its independence in
spite of all the efforts of Britain and other
countries, including the United States of
America, to suppress it for over a year now,
The State Department is reminded that
Great Britain didn't acknowledge American
Independence until some nine years after
the Declaration.
It is rather early, therefore, for Americans
to describe the Rhodesian Government as
"an illegal regime which has temporarily
usurped power" or "this white minority
regime in a deseparate and what will cer-
tainly prove to be a futile gesture".. as this
paper does.
While appreciating the present respect for
legality existing in the United States of
America, it is most surprising that she has
chosen to take such a very narrow view
about Rhodesia's declaration, in view of the
circumstances of her own birth as a Na-
tionl
One can only hope that it is due to the
almost complete ignorance shown by Ameri-
can officialism, of the true facts of the case.
D. GARNER
For Under Secretary, External Services.
P.S.: I have just returned from around
Rhodesia trip accompanied by twelve Amer-
ican supporters of the F.O.R. and therefore
my mail has suffered-however once I have
whittled away this mountain I'll write to
you more fully. In our friends
couldn't find the "threat to world peace"
(which they had been led to expect).
Yours in haste,
DOUG GARNER.-
Anti-Communist Work of National
Students Association
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. STROM THURMOND.
OF SOUTH CAROLINA
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
Wednesday, April 5, 1967
!(ii. THURMOND. Mr. President, dur-
ng the recent exposures of the connec-
;ions between the CIA and the National
Students Association, much was made of
the supposed anti-Communist work of
NSA. Yet to those who have long been
familiar with the activities and projects
of" NSA, it seemed incredible that the
far-left ideology of the NSA could ever
have supported an effective anti-Com-
munist program. Moreover, it seemed
astonishing that the views of NSA, so
obviously in the minority among student-
age Americans, would ever be taken as
representative of the United States.
A-,. arl-icle written by Ken Thompson
an,. published in the current issue of
Hl,:...a l Events thoroughly demolishes
whatever pretenses the NSA might have
had to being anti-Communist. Mr.
Thompson, the able associate editor of
the Richmond Times Dispatch, recounts
the NSA record. He demonstrates the
tional affairs vice president, says he is well
-to the left of Groves.
Over the years NSA has taken a number
of rather wild and irresponsible positions on
some of the more controversial Issues of the
day. To cite a few examples, its annual
"Congresses" have passed resolutions calling
for the following:
Abolition of the House Committee on Un-
American Activities.
Repeal of the Internal Security Act of 1950
and the Smith Act.
Admission of Red China?to the United Na-
tions.
Repeal of laws banning the sale of mari-
juana and LSD.
FOREIGN POLICY ATTACKED
Its resolutions have also condoned the
.Japanese student riots which prevented a
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visit to that country by former President has been steadily declining throughout the stantive effect of NSA's relations with CIA,"
Eisenhower. They have termed the rioting at present decade.
Berkeley an example of "responsible action" he says, "may come as a surprise to the
by students and pledged NSA le
FROM ALBATROSS TO ASSET liberal mind: Its ti
al
t
g
es
support
o the agency alt
mos for those arrested. They have censured the In any event, without the helping hand of certainly pulled NSA to the left in its politi-
United States for putting down violent anti- the CIA, NSA certainly could not have exer- cal stance" [McWilliams' italics], He adds
American riots in Panama. cised the degree of liberal and leftist in- that NSAS national affairs vice president,
In the area of civil rights, NSA's official fluence it has brought to bear in purely Edward Schwartz, has admitted that "to his
pronouncements have supported the use of domestic political affairs. knowledge CIA financing and support had
the most militant and revolutionary tactics, When the story of NSA's link with the never been exerted or employed for other
including "rent strikes," school boycotts and CIA broke, the immediate assumption of than liberal goals."
massive civil disobedience. many was that this would finish the "ream- A "NAIVE" CIA.?
Bute is in the field of foreign policy that zation for good; by its blundering, the CIA McWilliams also recalls an episode from
NSA's policy statements and resolutions have had accomplished in one flurry of headlines his own experience with NSA, At the asso- iation
been what Young conservative groups
annua It has ostcondemnsi lthe d contradictory. what Young Americf had Freedom ying the officers wholaoparentl in 1960
co some of
hence, ironically, the CIA-foUnited r intervention States- for years to do, with CIA recommended were resolution
h the Bay of Pigs (not, of corsit That may have been wishful thinking. For be adopted which~ sup t that a resolution
was the ay o f Pi (n the Dominican because NSA's leaders are busily regrouping their Cuban revolution." pored the aims of the
wa Bunsu ut cces
has ) and t Dominicann Repub-
the forces and making a concerted effort to The reaction of many of the delegates was
lic. it affairs of the Republic for nterv Africa, turn the CIA albatross into an asset. "hostile," says McWilliams-for after all, this
It has condemned the United States for A few years ago, NSA's over-zealous re- was 18 months after Castro had come to of Soth
"aggression" d mned the Asia and demanded for at the University of Indiana bought power and revealed for all the world to see
that "aggression" Soothe North Viet Nam and a full-page ad in the student newspaper that he had far more in common with Lenin
h a hwe stop alt to all bombing
offensive militant action In featuring an endorsement of NSA as a "spear- than George Washington. "A large number
call uth Viet Nam. It has not, however, con- head in the fight against communism" from of delegates were eager to proceed to a severe
demned South Viet N Viet Nam fort, owever c none other them the House Committee on indictment of 'Castroite totalitarianism,'
demanded North t the Viet fore cease its lion or or Un-American Activities-which NSA was, says McWilliams.
ties, aimed primarily and intentionally aatroci-
t the and still is, in favor of abolishing. The en-At this ivilian population in the south. dorsement, of course, was a complete fraud, spiracy machinery' began nttoinu "the 'eon-
.
It has called for the overthrow of Diems But NSA was desperate. It didn't want to ful machinery' grind l into pain-
Bas call called but for the for rth overthrow of lose Indiana, public operation: sessions; s; mysterious eriouss held hurried and
So many Sukarnos
world's s. burnoe and for Equally despun, to today, NSA's spokesmen and visitations occurred; mistaking me for
pronouncements have at Southern Methodist University, (see sepa- an 'insider,' a national official eagerly told
been so extreme in their left-wing bias and rate story on opposite page) are contending me just why the International Commission's
so contrary to the interests of the United that the organization couldn't possibly be resolution must be passed. Those who ere
that it is not surprising that it has as left-wing as everybody has been saying, 'witty' (privy to the secret of the tie to CIA
States frequently attracted the surprising and it has or the CIA wouldn't have even considered in the argot of the NSA leadership) had as-'
of quentl Redinterest support subsidizing it.
ofa. Its actions ront the
whis-
have groups ennd their it been Some of NSA':; o0icials are so desperate persathat NSA'ssaid nfluence overseas depended
blessed with mild editorial endorsements that they're even Willing to peddle the major on the association's being friendly toward
on , from The Worker, the Communist s
thesis of Ramps is magazin part
y
e, which broke th
official
newspaper.
e Cuban revolution's goals; important
the story of t he CIA link. According to Ram- 'contacts' felt the resolution essential
What is surprising to many
parts, what the whole stor
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,onght of all this evidence, it Is becom-
that for 15 years the Central Intelligence was that the CIA's well-h
Agency eeled militarists ing increasingly difficult to explain away the
has been secretly and right-wingers have bought off a group scandal of the NSA subsidy by simply con-
many of NSA's activities,
y financing a good of once idealistic youngsters who sold their tending that the CIA must have been Bale
Apparently man $o million 's of i es. a' money has radicalism for 30 pieces of silver and a guar- Informed or naive. This is particularly true
been than to hrough pa assortment of
anteed exemption from. the draft.
dummy foundations and other CIA conduits The thesis fits in neatly with the image flnow ciariesaof CIA largess f hso many other ave been revealed
into the NSA treasury. By some accounts that has been created for the CIA. To quote with but a .few exceptions, the vast majority
the CIA has underwritten up to 80 per accounts Walter Lippmann-and who Is a better au- of them well to the left of center.
t the association's expenses to per thority on the shibboleths of the left?-"The It's, an unpleasant thought, but perhaps
The argument used by those who 1952. are now CIA has become the universal scapegoat for the CIA knew -exactly doing
de The r. the CIA-NSA links that the only any rightist activity which people on the left when it gave the Institute of International
way of the CIA -NSA link is that with Only and in the center dislike."
dents in other ncommunicating the world-and it nom- Because it has. become the left's bete noire, Juan rBosch r on (he faculty) omo more thn $1
den communism than other parts
among the rl to abroad Is conservatives have automatically rushed to million to organize and assist leftist parties
b enlist the services of the youth American students its defense, assuming that it must be one of in Latin America.
who enlist their language-or m something eery the very last outposts of good sense and right It takes an awful lot of misinformation
Who speak ua cos th ver thinking in the federal establishment. and naivete to pick Norman Thomas and
close to I Thus CIA pragmatic t.a T looking out for only being Is either assumption valid? Is it sible Juan Bosch to
p
best interests-in underwriting r A's inters that both liberals and conservativshave against communisme as generals in the war
national misjudged the CIA? YAF VS. NSA: S
It won't wash! In the first place, the Time magazine recently noted that a State footno to EDITOR
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tonal CIA's assistance, activitiesl, effect, helped to prop up Department veteran once confessed that An interesting footnote to
battle
the NSA battle
NSAs fraudulent claim that it serves prop an "You'll find more liberal intellectuals per at SMU: The editor of its newspaper, The
accurate barometer of student opinion in square Inch at CIA than anywhere else in SMU Campus, ought to be blushing at least
America. Thus, the CIA helped pi distort the government." as deep a red as the color on the faces of the
the linage of American students abroad. The New Republic quotes a former NSA student body leaders who were embarrassed
When NSA condemns U.S. policy in Viet Nam leader as having said: "I used to think the by the disclosure of NSA's ties to the CIA
W and claims NSA to a speaking for the et am - CIA was some horrible Fascist conspiracy, shortly after they decided to. join the
American student, it is behaving at least as Then I discovered it was a treasure-trove of association.
A
irre as meponbly a Berkeley's beatniks, least a liberalism, the one refuge for liberals dur- When copies of' "The NSA Report"-a'
noisy demonstrations invite be Chi Minh whose e Ing the McCarthy period." booklet put out by Young Americans for Ho to
misjudge our true intentions and resolve. Even Ramparts conceded that NSA's staff Freedom which was extremely critical of the
It should also be noted that the CIA by no members who were told the
associati
secret of th CIA
on-were introdud i th
ecenhe can-
means restricted its generosity to NSA's in-' subsidy were tipped off that "in working with paign, the editor assailed YAP as a well-..-.
mean ternational restricted
program. the CIA, they would be
angled o
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providing th I
zation whih
en-c spends its time
The agency apparently picked up the tab formation that would help get a more en- and money on publications to attack NSA
for a $140,000 deficit run up by NSA on a lightened [i.e., more liberal] foreign policy gaaher on
offering any constructive pro
disastrous college bookstore venture. What presented in high Washington circles." grams t its own. NSA, however, has a 11 that had to do with foreign policy, intelli- Mike Wood, a former NSA fund-raiser who to struggle budget for pu a mer: . Ins had
gence operations or national' security is any- gave Ramparts much of the information on t CIA while YAP a has been $3 million from
body's guess. whiolr its expose was based, told an audience g the CIA, while YF has eco wallowing hundred
It also apparently covered a great many of at the University of Virginia two weeks ago grand thatar, not a couple the gov-
NSA's administrative costs, including a 15- that whatever pressure the CIA applied on ernmentYe not a penny of It from the go
year lease, rent free, for the organization's NSA came in the form of directing its Inter- In another editorial, the Campus described
Washington headquarters, it seems highly national representatives to take a liberal
likely that, without such assistance, NSA radical position on issues, , Le!'aAF'hys to p bookl!ipeit d ants s ba]letineaky"propagaldt kHs h "Geii-
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not read the fine print mistook this booklet
for NSA literature." Oh, come on, nowl
Every word in that booklet must have been
in print too fine for the paper's editor and
anyone else who could possibly have mis-
taken it for anything but a complete-and
extremely well researched, reasoned and
written-assault on NSA.
But such are the tactics of NSA's chain-.
pions.
NSA TO BE MAJOR ISSUE IN SM.U AND USC
ELECTIONS
At two major American universities-
Southern Methodist in Dallas and Southern
California in Los Angeles-a couple dozen
student body leaders have been sporting red
faces for more than a month.
By decree of their student governments,
both schools decided to join the National
Student Association shortly before its con-
nection with the Central Intelligence Agency
was exposed-In SMU's case, two weeks be-
fore the bomb exploded, and at SC only two
days before.
In both cases the action was rather typical
of how NSA and its campus agents oper,
ate.
At SMU, the organization dispatched two
recruiters to the campus in late January.
As usual, they made no effort to sell the as-
sociation's merits to the students them-
selves; instead, they conferred quietly with
members of the Student Senate, which met
a few days later, on January 31, to consider
joining NSA.
Shortly before the meeting, several cam-
pus conservatives got wind of these develop-
ments and secured a promise from the stu-
dent body president that no final decision
on NSA would be made at the meeting.
However, after listening to a plea from an-
other NSA official who was flown in from
California to address them, the members of
the Senate voted by a margin of 15 to 6 to
join the association. The motion to join
was submitted by the same student body
president who had promised that a decision
would not be made.
Two days later opponents of NSA circu-
lated a petition on campus demanding that
a student referendum be held. Within six
hours they had secured 1,300 signatures.
On the day the CIA story broke, the Student
Senate decided to reconsider its decision.
When it met a week later, it was obvious
even to NSA's staunchest supporters that
the vast majority of SMU's students op-
posed affiliation with the association. But
NSA received powerful assists from several
sources.
The campus newspaper had outdone itself
lobbying in behalf of NSA. The university's
president, Dr. Willis Tate, observed that the
issue was "clearly one for the students to de-
cide," but promptly added that he had con-
fidence in the Senate to make the right de-,
cislon without a student referendum and
defended NSA. against charges that It is an
"extremist" group.
A professor who was supposed to be the
Impartial moderator at the only public de-,
bate held on the subject made such ob-
viously biased remarks as: "I'm pleased to
see that SMU is entering the 20th Cen-
tury." -
Just before the Senate voted on the
matter, its presiding officer pleaded with his
colleagues: "Vote according to your. own
convictions rather than try to be representa-
tive of the student body." They did just
that, deciding by a margin of 12 to 10 to re-
affirm their earlier decision to, join NSA
without permitting the students to/vote on
the issue. They weren't about to make that
mistake. Even at the University of Texas,
which is far more radical than SMU, the stu-
dents voted by a wide margin to withdraw
from NSA a couple of years ago. And at
SMU, in fact, on two prior ocecasions the
student- body had voted overwhelming
against joining.NSA,
Although the students at SMU have been
prevented from voting directly on NSA, the
association is still an important issue in the
upcoming student government elections. If
several pro-NSA members of the Senate are
defeated, it is expected. that body will then
reverse its contro-ccrsial vote to affiliate.
At Southern Cc ;fornia--which had with
drawn from NSA decade ago-the student
body's executive our,cil voted on Febru-
ary 12 to reafli:liate with the association.
Here again t a- e was no effort made to
win over the student body; that perhaps
would have been ':utile and was unnecessary
in any event. For NSA had a powerful ally
In Taylor Hackf',rd, USC's student body
president, who h +d been wined and wooed
last summer in Wisconsin at the association's
annual congress.
The day after the vote was taken, the
Young Republicans on campus circulated a
petition demanding a referendum. When
the CIA story broke, the Young Democrats
and the campus chapter of Students for a
Democratic Society-both of which initially
opposed the referendums (it was probably too
democratic, small "d") -switched their posi-
tion. Significantly, however, they did not
urge the students to vote against NSA in
the referendum which they were now in
favor of conducting.
Hackford opposed letting the students de-
cide the matter "because it's such an emo-
tional issue that I don't want it on the
ballot."
And the campus newspaper chimed in with
a charge that the Young Republicans, by
calling for a referendum, "are undermining
student government at USC." The students,
it said, were not well enough informed.
Stupid clodsl However did they manage
in the first place to elect such brilliant
leaders who must make all their decisions
for them?
Unlike SMU, the student government at
USC Is required to hold a referendum if a
sufficient number of students demand-one.
The YRs had no trouble getting more. than.
enough signatures on their petition. So in
early April a vote on the entire student body
will be taken, and the betting is better than
even that NSA will lose.
The House Un-American Activities
Committee
Caucus when almost one-third of the Demo-
crats in the House voted to go on record as
favoring it change in rules that would allow
for the permanent dispatch of this ancient
remnant of mccarthyism. And during the
first week of the 90th Congress, more than
two dozen abolition resolutions, several of
them introduced by Republicans, were re-
ferred to the Rules Committee.
Pragmatists on "The Hill" scoff at the re-
peated efforts of aroused citizens to get
HUAC junked, declaring that it is now an.
institution and is a vehicle for political ca-
reers (its most "famous" graduate being
Richard Nixon). But it Is precisely because
of this, and that last-ditch segregationists
now plan on using the committee to smear
the civil rights movement and rehabilitation
of the ghettos-that HUAC must be con-
stantly opposed and discredited.
The arguments are as old as the commit-
tee: that it is unconstitutional, that It de-
nies due process to witnesses; that it has
served virtually no legislative purpose; that-
Its appropriation could be used for much
more worthwhile causes (its annual budget
is the fourth largest among standing House
committees).
Labor well knows that those who abuse the
First Amendment in their alleged hunt for
"subversives" eventually find their target in
all organized social and economic movements
seeking a change for the better. That is why
the USWA, at its last Constitutional Con-
vention called for abolition of HUAC, which
it said "is not dedicated to gathering infor-
mation, but to conducting inquisitions with-
out any legitimate legislative purpose."
The committee, with few exceptions In its
long history, has been a panel of white su-
.premists and ultra-rightists who have been
cloaked in the respectability and the im-
munity of Congress in carrying out their
witch hunts. House members should join in
the protest by voting against its appropria-
tion this month as a means of seeking open
debate on its very existence.
Editorial in the Asian World by Dr. Di-
osdado M. Yap Exemplifies Asian Inter-
est in American Involvement in Viet-
nam
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. JENNINGS RANDOLPH
OF WEST VIRGINIA
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
Wednesday, April 5, 1967
Mr. RANDOLPH. Mr. President, I re-
cently read an editorial in the Asian
World on American involvement in
southeast Asia. Editor Diosdado M.
Yap's cogent remarks serve as a remind-
er that we are performing a vital service
as we strive for a peaceful Vietnam, free
from aggression, free to make its own
decisions, and free to live unharassed by
its neighbors.
President Johnson's trips to Asia and
Guam have done much to unite Asians
and Dr. Yap's comments point out the
prevailing feeling in Asia.
- Mr. President, I ask unanimous con-
sent to have the editorial, "America in
Asia," printed in the Appendix of the
RECORD.
There being no objection, the editorial
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD
as follows:
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. AUGUSTUS F. HAWKINS
OF CALIFORNIA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, April 5, 1967
Mr. HAWKINS. Mr. Speaker, once
again the House of Representatives is
faced with the question of providing
funds for the Committee on Un-Ameri-
can Activities.
It therefore may be of interest to my
colleagues to be aware of the position of
one of the Nation's foremost labor
unions, the United Steelworkers of
America, in opposition to the committee,
as expressed in the following editorial:
[From Steel Labor, March 19671
WHACK HUAC
The biennial effort to gain the floor Sn the
opening of Congress to propose abolition of
the House Un-American Activities Commit-
tee failed again this year, but abolitionists
took heart in significant and increased op-
position to the committee among members of
the House.
The blow was softened at the Democratid
AMERICA IN ASIA
Perhaps never before in the history of the
United States has the problem of her rela-
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