THE JULY 14 MOB SLAYING OF THREDD AMERICANS IN IRAQ

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• Publication Date: July 31, 1958
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The SPEAKER pro tempore. The
question is on the resolution.
The resolution was agreed to.
A motion to reconsider was laid on the
table.
(Mr. WALTER asked and was given
permission to revise and extend his re-
marks at this point in the RECORD.)
Mr. WALTER. Mr. Speaker, there ap-
peared this morning in one of the Wash-
ington newspapers an advertisement dis-
playing an open letter to the United
States House of Representatives, signed
by what appears to be a number of re-
spectable citizens who have been in-
spired to object to the hearings held by
the Committee on Un-American Activ-
ities in Atlanta, Ga.
I wish to state emphatically that our
investigation of Communist influence in
the South is totally unrelated to the
matter of school integration or school
segregation. The hearings in Georgia
are conducted for the purpose of further
tracing the inroads made by the Com-
munist conspiracy in the ranks of cer-
tain legitimate organizations created by
people of good will.
Many leaders of those organizations
are not aware of the fact that the Com-
munist Party, reduced in size as a formal
entity and placed under a spotlight by
our investigations, is now engaged in in-
filtration and penetration of many
groups, organizations, societies, and so
forth, whose leaders are not informed
of the identity of the highly skilled and
trained agents of the Kremlin, masquer-
ading behind a facade of humanitarian-
ism.
The good citizens who signed the open
letter arq not sufficiently informed of the
extent of Communist penetration of the
many organizations active in the South.
The signers of the open letter would be
well advised to study with a little more
diligence the true character and purpose
of the agents who hide behind their
backs and whisper into their ears.
Should the Kremlin's agents succeed in
exploiting the tension characteristic of
the period of social changes occurring in
the South, that area of the United States
would soon become a rather dangerous
place to live. Nothing would please the
Kremlin more.
LAKE OF THE WOODS FLOOD
DAMAGE
Mr. LANE. Mr. Speaker, I ask unan-
imous consent to take from the Speak-
er's desk the bill (H. R. 10805) for the
relief of certain persons who sustained
damages by reason of fluctuations in the
water level of the Lake,of the Woods,
with a Senate amendment thereto, and
concur in the Senate amendment.
The Clerk read the title of the bill.
The Clerk read the Senate amend-
ment, as follows:
Page 2, line 2, strike out all after "act"
down to and including "act" in line 7.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is
there objection to the request of the
gentleman from Massachusetts?
There was no objection.
The Senate amendment was con-
curred in.
A motion to reconsider was laid on
the table.
CORRECTION OF THE RECORD
Mr. NEAL. Mr. Speaker, I ask unan-
imous consent to make a correction in
my remarks on page 14304 of the REc-
ORD of July 30, 1958. In line 1 of my
remarks, the word "approve" should be
stricken and the word "oppose" substi-
tuted.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is
there objection to the request of the
gentleman from West Virginia?
There was no objection.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS
Mr. JONES of Alabama. Mr. Speak-
er, I ask unanimous consent that the
Committee on Public Works may have
until midnight tomorrow night to file a
report on S. 1869.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is
there objection to the request of the
gentleman from Alabama?
There was no objection.
Mr. McGREGOR. Mr. Speaker, I ask
unanimous consent that the minority
may be permitted to file a minority re-
port.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is
there objection to the request of the
gentleman from Ohio?
There was no objection.
HOUSE CONFEREE ON S. 3651
Mr. KILBURN. Mr. Speaker, I ask
unanimous consent to be relieved as - a
conferee on the bill S. 3651 and that the
Speaker be empowered to appoint an-
other Member in my place.
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr.
MILLS). Without objection, it is so
ordered.
There was no objection.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The
Chair appoints the gentleman from
Ohio [Mr. BETTSI as a conferee.
The Clerk will notify the Senat
accordingly.
DISPENSING WITH CALL OF THE
PRIVATE CALENDAR NEXT TUES-
DAY
Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Speaker, I
ask unanimous consent that the call of
the Private Calendar on next Tuesday
may be dispensed with.
The SPEAKER. Is there objecton to
the request of the gentleman from Mas-
sachusetts?
Mr. MARTIN. Mr. Speaker, reserving
the right to object, would the Private
Calendar ordinarily be called next Tues-
day?
Mr. McCORMACK. It would ordi-
narily come up on Tuesday, but there
are no bills to be considered. We shall
arrange to take care of the situation
later, and I shall confer with my friend
later on.
Mr. MARTIN. Mr. Speaker, I with-
draw my reservation of objection.
The SPEAKER. Is there objection
to the request of the gentleman from
Massachusetts?
There was no objection.
PROGRAM FOR THE BALANCE OF
THE WEEK
(Mr. BROWN of Ohio asked and was
given permission to address the House
for 1 minute.)
Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker,
I should like to ask the majority leader
what the schedule is for the rest of
the week.
Mr. McCORMACK. On tomorrow we
take up the community facilities bill.
Mr. BROWN of Ohio. And if that is
not completed tomorrow, will we sit on
Saturday?
Mr. McCORMACK. Yes; but I feel
confident that it will be completed to-
morrow.
Mr. BROWN of Ohio. So do I.
Mr. McCORMACK. I do not know
what the gentleman's interpretation of
"completion" is in this case; but I mean
it will be completed by the adoption of
the rule and the passage of the bill.
Mr. BROWN of Ohio. 'I thank the
gentleman.
SELECT COMMITTEE ON OUTER
SPACE,
Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Speaker, I
ask unanimous consent that the Select
Committee on Outer Space may have
permission to sit during general debate
on Friday; and also that the same com-
mittee may have until midnight Satuf-
day to file a bill and a report.
The SPEAKER. Without objection, it
is so ordered.
There was iio objection.
at this point in the RECORD.)
Mr. ANDERSON of Montana. Mr.
Speaker, yesterday I was privileged to
participate in retirement ceremonies for
Gen. Willard Gordon Wyman, who for
the past 3 years has been commanding
general, United States Continental Army
Command at Fort Monroe, Va. It was
with mixed feelings that I observed the
impressive ceremony. Because I have
long had great admiration, respect, and
affection for General Wyman, I was
happy that his accomplishments were
being recognized. I know his ability,
experience and advice always will be
available to the Nation's needs. Never-
theless, I was sad that his fine talents,
his exceptional grasp of military prob-
lems, his energy, his vision and his lead-
ership will no longer be devoted exclu-
sively to building up our Nation's de-
fense.
General Wyman was my commanding
general for 2 years when he commanded
the west coast's Sixth Army while I,
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then as now; commanded the 96th In-
fantry Reserve Division in the Rocky
Mountain States.
During this time, I was tremendously
impressed by the forward-looking poli-
cies and doctrines which he developed.
In a time when there was much confu-
sion over the transition from conven-
tional warfare to atomic warfare, Gen-
eral Wyman developed our new doctrines
of combat and has been charged with
planning reorganization of the Army to
meet the new requirement.
The active Army now has been com-
pletely reorganized to the new pentomic
structure, and the Reserve and National
Guard divisions are about to reorganize
under new tables of organization de-
signed to enable them to ? fight either
atomic or conventional warfare, and to
wage successfully either limited or gen-
eral war.
I am sure my colleagues will be inter-
ested in the following brief biography
of this outstanding soldier.
WILLARD G. WYMAN
Willard G. Wyman was born March 21,
1898, in Augusta, Maine, and attended Bow-
doin College, Maine. He was graduated
from the United States Military Academy In
November 1918, and commissioned a second
lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Corps. He
was transferred to the Cavalry on July 1,
1920.
From November 1918 to June 1919, Gen-
eral Wyman continued his studies at the
United States Military Academy, and from
July to September 1919 he served with the
American Expeditionary Forces in France.
General Wyman was assigned to the Coast
Artillery School at Fort Monroe, Va., in
October 1919. Upon his graduation a year
later, he went to Fort Riley, Kans., where
he graduated from the Cavalry School in
June 1921. After a brief assignmerft at
Camp Devens, Mass., he was transferred in
October 1921 to the Presidio of Monterey,
Calif., for duty with the 11th Cavalry. In
September V25, he was ordered to the Sig-
nal School at Fort Monmouth, N. J., where
he completed the course in June 1926. He
then went to Fort Bliss., Tex., as regimental
signal officer of the 7th Cavalry.
From July 1928 to August 1932, Gen-
eral Wyman was a language student at
Peiping, China. During this period he served
as topographer for the Central Asiatic Ex-
pedition in Mongolia, sponsored by the
American Museum of Natural History under
the leadership of Dr. Roy Chapman An-
drews. He also served with the Chinese
19th Route Army during the defense of
Shanghai against the Japanese in 1932.
Upon his return to the United States,
General Wyman was assigned to the 3d
Cavalry at Fort Myer, Va. In July 1933,
he was designated regimental signal officer
of the 3d Cavalry, and later regimental
adjutant. In August 1936, he was detailed
to the Command and General Staff School
at Fort Leavenworth, Kans. Following his
graduation in June 1937, he was assigned
as an instructor at the Cavalry School, Fort
Riley, Kans.
In July 1940, General Wyman became
aide to the commanding general of the let
Cavalry Division and later aide to the com-
manding general of the IX Corps at Fort
Lewis, Wash. In May 1941, he was desig-
nated assistant chief of staff for personnel
of the Army IX Corps at Fort Lewis, Wash,
The following August he became a member
of the Plans Group, War Plans Division,
War Department General Staff.
General Wyman served in Burma from
? February to June 1942 as General Stillwell's
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in Iraq on July 14, 1958, was a horrible
outrage and that under no circum-
stances should the rebel government in
Iraq be considered for recognition un-
less and until we had the complete
agreement that they assume full respon-
sibility for the acts of their army and
the results thereof, including financial
reparation.
Mr. Speaker, this shocking incident,
having received little press notice,
should be brought to the attention of
the House. Seldom, if ever, in modern
times has the army of a foreign power
seized American citizens and allowed
them to be beaten to death and horribly
mangled beyond identification. Of the
three victims, all Californians, one
comes from Altadena, in the district I
represent. He was highly respected, a
fine type of young American, in Iraq on
business in support of his family, an
ideal husband and father of eight chil-
dren. To the family, this, of course, is
a horrible shock. But, Mr. Speaker, it
should be to the entire country, and es-
pecially to the Congress.
Below is a firsthand account from
Time magazine of August 4:
From his bed in Amman, 36-year-old Brit-
ish-trained Gen. Sadiq Shares recited the
gruesome events that took place around
the swank New Baghdad Hotel.
You just cannot imagine. At 9: 30 on
the morning of the coup, a group of rebels
arrived at the hotel in search of a general
and three Jordanian Ministers of the Arab
Union. They ripped out telephones and
ransacked the front office. With about 20
other foreigners, apparently seized at ran-
dom, the Jordanians were loaded into a
truck that started off for the Ministry of
Defense. Among those seized were three
Californians: Robert Alcock, George S. Col-
ley, Jr., senior vice president of Bechtel
Corp, of San Francisco, and Eugene Burns,
former Associated Press correspondent. The
truck drove slowly through milling streets.
In front of the Ministry gates the truck was
trapped by a stalled vehicle in front of
it, and the mob attacked.
They tore off the tarpaulin and started
pulling people into the street. One of my
colleagues, Ibrahim Hashim, the Arab
Union's Deputy Premier, who was sitting
beside me, died from a stone hit in the
head. Everyone who was pulled down was
cut to bits. I saw a young German or Swiss
of about 30 grabbed by the head and pulled
down by the mob. About eight people
started slashing and stabbing him and
beating him with rods. Then they cut off
his head. I did not see the death of the
American, Burns, but later, one of our peo-
ple told me he was pulled down and killed
like the others. You just cannot imagine
it." Finally someone got the gates open
and "those of us who were still alive on
the truck tried to jump and run for it.
00ilyone who could not reach the gate was
killed and dismembered." Shara made it.
I hope the House will see fit to take
as immediate and vigorous action as
possible.
HON. JOHN A. BURNS
The SPEAKER. Under previous or-
der of the House, the gentleman from
New York [Mr. O'BRIENI is recognized
for 60 minutes.
(Mr. O'BRIEN of New York asked and
was given permission to revise and ex-
tend his remarks.)
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Army. Following the first Burma camp gn,
he became assistant chief of staff, 03 of
the United States Army Forces in the Chi a,
Burma, India Theater of Operations, n
January 1943, he was designated Chief f
Plans Subsection, G3, Allied Forces Head-
quarters, in the north African theater, and
the following July was appointed assistant
division commander of the 1st Infantry Di-
vision In that theater. He served with the
1st Infantry Division from the Battle of
Troina in Sicily through the Normandy
landings and the campaigns of France and
Germany to the Battle of Aachen.
In October 1944, General Wyman became
commanding general of the 71st Infantry
Division at Fort Benning, Ga. This divi-
sion entered combat March 12, 1945, secretly
relieving the 100th Division on its front
south of Bitche. On March 31 the division
moved to reinforce the Third Army. The di-
vision then plunged across the Rhine at Op-
penheim, across Germany and Into Austria,
where it met the Russian 5th Guards Air-
borne Division on the River Enos. After
V-E Day, the division assumed occupational
duties while training for the war in the Pa-
cific, which came to an end, however, be.
fore the division could move to the Pacific
theater.
General Wyman was assigned to Head-
quarters, Army Ground Forces, Washington,
D. C., in August 1945, and a month later
was made assistant chief of staff for intelli-
gence of the Army Ground Forces. He re-
tained that position when Army Ground
l;'orces Headquarters moved to Fort Monroe,
Va., in October 1946. He became chief of
staff of the First Army at Governors Island,
N. Y., in September 1947, and in January
1951 he was transferred to Central Intelli-
gence Agency, Washington, D. C.
General Wyman was appointed command-
ing general of the IX Corps in Korea in
December 1951. In August 1962, he was
designated commander of the Allied Land
Forces, Southeastern Europe, with head-
quarters at Izmir, Turkey. This newly es-
tablished command consisted principally of
Greek and Turkish ground forces in the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
In March 1954 General Wyman returned to
the United States and was named com-
manding general, Sixth Army, Presidio, of
San Francisco, Calif. In August 1955 he was
named deputy commanding general, Conti-
nental Army Command, with headquarters
at Fort Monroe, Va. In March 1956, Gen-
eral Wyman was promoted to full general
and assumed command of the United States
Continental Army Command (USCONARC).
During General Wyman's tenure, the re-
sponsibility of the commanding general,
United States Continental Army Command
has been expanded from the initial Army
group concept (interests largely restricted to
operations, plans, and training) to the much
broader range of a Theater Army Command
for the continental United States. The
USCONARC, with an aggregate strength of
approximately 450,000 (375,000 military,
75,000 civilian) Includes nearly one half of
the Active Army, plus over 2 million per-
sonnel in the Reserve Forces, as CG,
USCONAR . General Wyman held the o
four-star rmy command In the ed
EE AMERICANS IN IRAQ
(M HIESTAND asked and was given
permi ion to extend his remarks at this
point i the RECORD.)
Mr. IESTAND. Mr. Speaker, last
Monda I introduced House Concurrent
Resolution 368 to express the sense of