Nevertheless, I am convinced time and the unchangeable aspirations of the common man in the captive, non-Russian nations will yet make Shevchenko, a prophet among his people.

The signs are many that imperial Russia will soon again be forced to meet powerful currents of change within and without her empire.

If we look calmly and objectively at the roots of the dispute between Moscow and Peiping we will discover that alleged disagreements over Marxist theory are nothing but a camouflage for the real issue.

The real issue is Chinese nationalism versus Russian chauvinism within the ranks of the international conspiracy.

Peiping is openly charging Moscow with "great power chauvinism" by which they mean Russian chauvinism and imperialism.

In reply the Russians are charging Peiping with inciting "racism" by which they mean nationalism.

Moreover, it is an old Russian trick to brand anyone who exposes Russian superrace practices as a "racist."

But Peiping is as accurate today in its charges on Russian chauvinism and im

perialism as Lenin was 40 years ago in his deathbed prophecy on this issue.

This struggle within the international conspiracy between Chinese nationalism and Russian imperialism has its geopolitical counterpart in the central east European area of the Russian Empire.

The captive non-Russian nations throughout that vast area are under siege of the spirit of nationalism, that is, the spirit of national independence.

None of them are able, on their own, to regain their national independence. That was the prime lesson learned from the Hungarian freedom revolution of 1956.

A symphony of revolutionary actions by all of the captive nations would, however, bring down the Russian Empire into a state of total collapse.

That was the second or afterthought lesson of the Hungarian freedom revolution.

It is certain that the pressures of Chinese nationalism in the Far East have added encouragement and strength to the forces of nationalism in the captive European nations.

Some of the Communist regimes in the captive European nations recognize this reality of life and are beginning to respond to these pressures by trying to shake off their assigned role of subservient tools of Moscow.

While it must be recognized that those regimes are thus taking out life insurance against the coming political storm. This must not distract from an objective evaluation of the growing power of nationalism in those countries.

Desperation politics makes for strange bedfellows, particularly when a well identified common enemy is involved.

Should Peiping decide on action to recover ancient Chinese territory annexed by the Russian czars in the past, this would confront the Russians with an insolvable problem.

If Moscow moves its elite guard Russian troops to the Far East in the numbers required to meet the Red Chinese threat, this would present the captive European part of their empire with an open invitation to a symphony of revolts.

Moscow does not have enough dependable military force at its command to meet this double-barreled geopolitical challenge.

It has often been said that 90 million Russians cannot long hold control over their vast Eurasian Empire-stretching from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean.

If they the Russians and the Red Chinese want to bury each other that is their business and certainly not ours.

If Peiping seeks to recover Chinese territories from Imperial Russia, that is none of our business.

If Peiping seeks allies among the Communist regimes of central-east Europe in an effort to break up the Russian superrace practices within the international conspiracy

that is likewise none of our business.

The Communist Dictator Tito has finally pried his entry into the United States and will soon be, I regret to say, an unofficial guest of our Government.

There is well-founded feeling that the real purpose of Tito's mission is to convince our President that the United States should side with the Russians in their growing conflict with the Red Chinese.

Tito will advocate a nonaggression pact between NATO and the Warsaw Pact nations in order to free Russian imperial hands to meet problems of the empire in the Far East. And, incidentally, he will be looking for another handout for himself.

A Russian propaganda campaign has been underway in the United States and in much

of the free world based upon a so-called

yellow peril.

The objective of that propaganda is to spread fear that a new Genghis Khan has arisen in the East and that soon his hordes will be sweeping the entire world.

It is all too obvious the Russians expect to generate sufficient false fears in the West to make their proposed nonaggression pact an easy choice between two evils.

We must never forget that it is the Russians who are the full inheritors of the despotic system of Genghis Khan and that they have preserved that heritage intact for 500 years.

The Chinese people were the victims of Genghis Khan their ancient and advanced civilization was a prize coveted by all the

khans who ruled from Ulan Bator.

Moreover, the Chinese people sought for centuries to live at peace with their neighbors, but after Russian ideology gained a beachhead in Peiping, the Chinese engaged in organized aggression.

Hence, the only meaningful nonaggression pacts possible in this situation are pacts between the Red Moskals and the people of every captive nation within the Russian empire.

These pacts should be exchanged for the freedom and national independence of each and all of those captive nations.

Such pacts with Moscow could be entered into only by free and independent governments empowered to guarantee that their people would not attack the Russians if they became engaged in a conflict with the Red

Chinese.

Those are the only kind of nonaggression pacts the United States should take an in

terest in-and no others.

Those are the only kind of nonaggression pacts that can further the cause of peace worthy of the name.

That is the only kind of peaceful coexistence the United States should be advocating and supporting throughout the world.

Fulfillment of that destiny must become and remain the goal of all civilized men.

Mr. Speaker, the Achilles heel of the Soviet Union and its Communist empire is the nationalism that is still maintained by the captive peoples. This is true in the Ukraine and in other parts of the Soviet Union, in which they are held in similar captivity, and in the satellite nations of Eastern Europe.

As an American of Polish extraction, I am aware of the historic clashes that have marred Polish-Ukrainian relations, but have noted the consistent erosion of tensions between Polish and Ukrainian groups. They recognize that although differences have separated them in the past and might still exist, they are far overshadowed by the common enemy of their people-communism. This same principle holds true for other historic tensions where the common good-the restoration of freedom in the face of Communist tyranny-overshadows points of conflict that are minor in comparison.

The Ukraine represents the largest single anti-Communist nationalistic force within the present boundaries of the Soviet Union, and congressional support of the monument to Shevchenko represents a psychopolitical blow against the Soviet Union and its insidious propaganda operation.

It is my hope that the editors of the Washington Post will carefully reappraise the situation, take into account the completely involved issue, and give support to congressional action authorizing the Shevchenko statue.

UNEMPLOYMENT IN EASTERN

KENTUCKY

The SPEAKER. Under previous order of the House, the gentleman from Kentucky [Mr. PERKINS] is recognized for 30 minutes.

Mr. PERKINS. Mr. Speaker, I would like today to report to my colleagues on the status of conditions in eastern Kentucky and specifically the Seventh Congressional District which I am privileged to represent.

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From time to time in considering specific legislation which I have advocated or sponsored, I have called my colleagues' attention to the grave economic plight of many eastern Kentucky counties which have suffered high unemployment rates ranging from 10 percent to as high as 50 percent for 10 or more years. bring these matters to the attention of the U.S. House of Representatives at this time because I have gotten the impression from some Members that there is a belief that the Area Redevelopment Act and the accelerated public works program are the complete and sole solution to unemployment problems in the Nation. While these programs have been of great value to many of the communities in my district, it must be kept in mind that eastern Kentucky and other portions of the Appalachian Mountain region in the Our world is sick of tyranny and human words of the President are "one of the

The poet patriot whom we honor here tonight raised this question in one of his most famous poems: "When will we receive our Washington, with a new and righteous law."

That question remains unanswered for over 40 million Ukrainians who now inhabit the land of Shevchenko.

But hundreds of millions of other nonRussian people behind the Iron Curtain would welcome an answer to that burning question.

The nature of man deserves a destiny

which accords to all the fullness of freedom and human dignity, without which mankind will soon cease to exist.

most severely distressed areas of the Nation." Breathitt County, Ky., for example, in 1961 had an unemployment rate of 44.9 percent.

Most of my colleagues are familiar with the serious problem of an unemployment rate of 6 percent, but it is difficult to imagine or convey in words the despondency and the great human need that is found in an area where half of the work force is unemployed. I might observe at this point that no finer citizens can be found in the United States than those in Breathitt and the other counties in my district. In World War I not a single man had to be drafted from Breathitt County because the volunteers more than adequately filled all quotas. These are proud, intelligent, and resourceful people who would scorn relief for hard work if it had been or were in sight, but the effect of long-sustained and extremely high unemployment is a dreadful social malady which can undermine all of the activities of a community. It reduces, and virtually eliminates in many instances, the ability of local governments to finance the repair or the maintenance of schools, roads, streets, sewers, and water systems-much less construct new ones.

Many of these communities now lack basic community facilities, lack modern streets and roads, public buildings, parks, recreational facilities, and flood control. Under these circumstances the development of local industry or the attraction of expanding newly developed industry is a hopeless cause.

Federally aided public works programs for example, Federal Aid to Highways Act, Water Pollution Control Act, impacted areas legislation-worthy as these programs are, do not fully reach these communities. Because of the criteria for Federal assistance under these programs roads, sewage treatment facilities, and schools are built where the traffic is the heaviest-where the wealth is the greatest, thus generating more traffic and accentuating the disparity of the underdeveloped areas. Flood control projects are a good example of this.

Under criteria employed by the Corps of Engineers, dams and reservoirs are constructed where there are the greatest concentrations of development and wealth. In the Appalachian region, by the nature of the formula employed by the Corps of Engineers, economic cost ratios are going to be lower than elsewhere-depriving this region of essential flood protection. For the first time in many years, I am pleased to say we are making headway on flood control and water resource development for eastern Kentucky although much remains to be done. Surveys now in progress on the Big Sandy River, the Kentucky River, and the Licking River Basins will pave the way for additional flood control projects and reservoirs which are essential to the sound economic development of the communities involved. At the present time we have under construction in the upper Big Sandy River, the North Fork of Pound Reservoir, the John Flanagan, and the Fishtrap Reservoir. The completion of these reservoirs will enable people in Pike County and other Big Sandy communities to plan and develop economic enterprises and make investments in the area that were not possible under the constant threat of floods.

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In this connection the Corps of Engineers has scheduled a public hearing in Pike County for November 22 as a final step in the preparation of its flood control report on the Big Sandy. The corps will invite discussion on proposals to construct other Big Sandy reservoirs. For example, Yatesville, in Lawrence County, the Paint Creek Reservoir in Johnson County, and Haysi on the Russell Fork in southwest Virginia. I am hopeful that the Corps of Engineers will find favorable economic cost-benefits ratios on all of these reservoirs as well as endorse local flood control protection projects for Rockcastle Creek in Martin County, Ky., on the Tug Fork, South Williamson in Pike County to protect the UMWA Hospital, on Pond Creek also in Pike County, on the Right Fork of Beaver Creek above Martin in Floyd County, on Beaver Creek both above and below Martin in Floyd County, a local flood control project for Meta on Johns Creek in Pike County.

These are but a few of the local floodcontrol projects and reservoirs under consideration by the corps which are essential to the future economic growth and prosperity of the Big Sandy area. I am hopeful that we will be able to persuade the Corps of Engineers to develop other local flood-control projects in the Big Sandy Basin. For example, they should deepen and widen Blackberry Creek in Pike County and construct upstream reservoirs above Williamson on the Tug Fork.

A similar situation is developing in the upper Licking River where the corps has upper Licking River where the corps has under study flood protection for the community of Salyersville and where the Cave Run Reservoir is in the advanced stages of preconstruction planning.

Looking at the Kentucky River Basin, it is essential that the Carrs Fork Resit is essential that the Carrs Fork Reservoir be constructed at the earliest possible date. sible date. Planning funds now in the President's budget assure progress toward this target. Additional flood protection for the community of Hazard, Ky., seems to require to require an additional reservoir above Hazard which the corps reservoir above Hazard which the corps has under study as well as the Walkers has under study as well as the Walkers Creek Reservoir which is extremely important to the communities of Beattyville and Jackson. The Grayson Reserville and Jackson. The Grayson Reservoir obtains a construction start for this fiscal year. This reservoir is extremely fiscal year. This reservoir is extremely important to the entire Carter-GreenupElliott County area of eastern Kentucky Elliott County area of eastern Kentucky and in connection with this project as well as soil and water conservation and well as soil and water conservation and natural resources development a great natural resources development a great tribute should be given to the distintribute should be given to the distinguished Representative from Ohio, the Honorable MIKE KIRWAN, who has fought long and hard for the preservation of our Nation's natural resources and the construction of water resources development projects which will be of lasting benefit to our country.

As I have said, existing programs have been of assistance the accelerated public works program, the Area Redevelopment Act, the food stamp plan, the regular Federal aid highway program, including the construction of Interstate Highway 64, the Water Pollution Control Act, the Public Housing Act, the urban

renewal program, and other Federal programs. One program which could be of tremendous value in eastern Kentucky which has been tried out in numerous States as a result of enabling amendments to the Social Security Act of 1962, is the program to aid families with dependent children in the case of children of unemployed parents. This legislation permits the development of community work and training programs enabling the parent who is unemployed to receive wages from work on projects designed to upgrade his old skills or furnish him with new ones. For example, under this program of work relief, a forestry project could be initiated, a project to build rural roads or pave a highway, clean up our streams that are now polluted, widen and deepen stream banks to protect communities from flooding, flood control works, public buildings, and projects of this type. this type. Such wages could be matched as assistance payments are matched under the standards set by the State agency. The implementation of this program in eastern Kentucky will require legislation by the State.

The Federal aid highway program and the Area Redevelopment Act have made a substantial contribution to the financing of eastern Kentucky Mountain Parkway, a modern superhighway, initiated by Governor Combs, which is an example of the type of access road construction necessary for the proper development of eastern Kentucky. In addition to the Mountain Parkway development, highways are desperately needed to connect the upper Big Sandy and Kentucky River communities with the Ashland-GreenupHuntington-Ironton industrial complex. Additional modern east-west and northsouth routes are essential for the region. There is an immediate need for the completion of the 70-mile stretch of I-64 a point 10 miles west of Ashland to just east of Mount Sterling, the completion of which will furnish eastern Kentucky with an interstate connection to Louisville, Ky., on the west, and Charleston, W. Va., on the east. The Grayson Reservoir construction, due to start within the year, requires the relocation of several miles of S-7 and this would be an ideal time to build a modern highway connecting the Mountain Parkway from a point between Campton and Salyersville through West Liberty and Sandy Hook to I-64, between Grayson and Carter Caves with an eventual extension on to U.S. 23 along the Ohio River. In addition U.S. 119 in Kentucky and West Virginia, U.S. 23, and U.S. 460 in Kentucky, Ky. 80, and other feeder roads should be brought up to modern standards.

Both in connection with flood control, highway construction, and public works construction-a massive national program is essential for eastern Kentucky and the Appalachian region-a program that does not depend upon economic benefit-cost ratios for the construction of needed public works-a program which recognizes the inability of the local government to finance roads and other public works and permits 100-percent Federal cost participation-a program which is concentrated in a short

period of time so as to make flood control and good access over modern highways a reality in the immediate future.

I am very hopeful that we will be able to get the administration's Appalachian legislative program through the Congress during this coming year. In the meantime this Congress should approve the request of President Kennedy to appropriate the remaining $45 million under the Accelerated Public Works Act already authorized. Likewise, I am hopeful that the Congress will again extend the accelerated public works program for another year in order that we may construct modern highways in eastern Kentucky, sanitation projects, water systems, public buildings, and other needed public works which will be of immediate assistance to the whole of eastern Kentucky as well as the remainder of the Nation that have this unfortunate unemployment rate.

TERMINATION OF AID TO THE UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC The SPEAKER. Under previous order of the House, the gentleman from New York [Mr. HALPERN] is recognized for 10 minutes.

Mr. HALPERN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to extend my remarks at this point in the RECORD and include extraneous matter.

The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from New York?

There was no objection.

Mr. HALPERN. Mr. Speaker, I know that Members of this House and the Sen

ate will be surprised to hear that they are actually Israel agents who have sold their names, country, and fame to the devil because they supported provisions in the foreign assistance bill to terminate aid to the United Arab Republic. That is the allegation made against Members of Congress by the Government radio service of the United Arab Republic.

The Cairo Domestic Service, broadcasting on transmission facilities which the American taxpayer helped provide, speaks of Members of Congress and says that "dishonest personal interests alone are the main incentive for their behavior and tricks."

The Egyptian Government, speaking with the authority of President Nasser, said that Senators who voted last week for the amendment on Egyptian aid were paid "agents" whose voices and votes were bought by some international Zionist conspiracy.

If there had been any doubt in my mind of the reckless totalitarianism and wild irresponsibility of the Nasser regime, the broadcasts by Cairo resolve any question. I am including them in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD for the guidance of Members.

Mr. Speaker, it is unnecessary for us to attempt to answer this calumny from Cairo. The reasons why we must sever aid to the United Arab Republic speak for themselves. We should cut off all aid and keep it cut off until the Egyptians stop diverting their own resources for purchase of Soviet arms, until they abide with the United Nations agreement to withdraw their aggressive forces from

Yemen, until they cease their preparations for aggression against Israel including the hiring of German ex-Nazis to build rockets, and until they cease such new aggression as intervention of the last few days on the Algerian side in the fighting against Morocco.

The American people must not and I hope will not subsidize such threats to peace by the United Arab Republic. I call upon the President of the United States to implement the provisions of the Foreign Aid Act and cut off all aid to the United Arab Republic. It would be absurd and against our national security interest to give Nasser another dime.

U.S. FOREIGN AID

The press review broadcast by Cairo Domestic Service in Arabic, 0600 G.m.t., November 11, 1963, carried three articles denouncing the U.S. Senate restrictions on foreign aid. Al-Jumhuriyah deals with what it calls the Zionist inclinations of certain Senators and politicians who are always ready to betray America for the sake of Israel, and asserts that these inclinations harm America more than any other country.

Writing on the same subject, Al-Jumhuriyah Editor Nasir ad-Din an-Nashashibi said that if America believes that peoples' dignity and freedom can be sold and bought according to their need for aid and loans and that if the United States views itself as the only rich and great country in the world and as a result believes that all other countries are subject to its whims, then let it pursue the "mad policy formulated by a number of U.S. Senators who have sold their names, country, and fame to the devil."

CAIRO SUSPECTS MOTIVE OF U.S. SENATORS (Samir Karam commentary)

The U.S. Senate has issued a decision banning U.S. aid to any state which carries out or prepares any military operations against the United States or any state receiving U.S. aid. In this form, the decision is suscepIn this form, the decision is susceptible to debate, scrutiny, and refutation.

However, it is more liable to questions because it has been accompanied by statements from some U.S. Senators and newspapers indicating that it is directed against the United Arab Republic. Naturally, it is understood that what this means is the United Arab Republic attitude toward Israel, the archenemy of our nationalism.

Certainly, none of the U.S. Senators who drafted this decision or supported it can find a logical reply to any of these questions. Nor do we doubt that those who led the

campaign of defending Israel and attacking

the United Arab Republic inside the U.S. Senate are agents whose voices were bought by the influence of Zionist funds in the United States. This same influence had earlier bought the votes which enabled them to enter the U.S. Senate. The group of Senators who disregard their country's international interests and the legitimate right of an entire people to work for the restoration of their land and for international understanding among the peoples of the various areas this group cannot have any principles. Dishonest personal interests alone are the main incentive for their behavior and tricks.

The Israeli agents-members of the U.S. Senate have forgotten that their plotting against the Arab national issues and interests cannot change the Arab national aims, foremost of which is the wresting of the Palestinians' right and the destruction of Israel.

SOVIET ANTI-SEMITISM The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. LIBONATI). Under previous order of the House, the gentleman from New York

[Mr. HALPERN] is recognized for 5 minutes.

Mr. HALPERN. Mr. Speaker, a delegation described by the Soviet Embassy here as "the most representative delegation of public figures in the history of Soviet-American relations" has arrived in Washington. One of these so-called representative public figures is Aron Vergelis, who has seen sent by the Kremlin to try to obscure the truth about the mounting crescendo of Soviet anti-Semitism.

Aware that this Congress and the American people are concerned about Soviet harassment of the Russian Jewish population, the Soviet authorities have sent their operative, Vergelis who calls himself a Jewish poet and who is the puppet who edits the Soviet Union's only Yiddish-language magazine, Sovetish Heimland, a blatant propaganda instrument which operates against true Jewish interests.

Mr. Speaker, this Nation should know the hypocrisy of Vergelis' depiction of himself as a Jewish literary personage concerned about the fate of Jewry when he is actually a Communist Party hack assigned to cover up by propaganda smokescreen the rising tide of Soviet anti-Semitism. He is a disgrace to the faith of his fathers and I hope he deceives no one.

Another member of the group, Boris Polevoy, a writer of Jewish birth, has betrayed his own people by flagrantly misrepresenting the truth about the persecution of those Russian Jewish writers and artists who suffered for their devotion to Judaism and freedom.

I might add, Mr. Speaker, that responsible observers have found elements of suspicion in the role of Vergelis in the Soviet persecution and even liquidation of Jewish writers and artists.

Mr. Speaker, I favor cultural exchanges but I feel that the "exchange" should be real and authentic. A distinguished American professor of political science, Dr. Frederick Barghoorn, of Yale University, has been thrown incommunicado into a Soviet jail. I agree with the President and the State Department that we should cancel new cultural exchange negotiations. I also feel the State Department is correct in asking American institutions to refuse a forum to such frauds at Vergelis. I am glad to see that Georgetown University has today canceled his apparance on its campus and I hope this gesture will impress on the Soviet Union the desire of the American public for decency by the Soviet Government-whether in its treatment of our professors or its own citizens of Jewish faith.

LEAVE OF ABSENCE By unanimous consent, leave of absence was granted to:

Mr. ST GERMAIN (at the request of Mr. ALBERT), for today, on account of personal business (birth).

Mr. KARTH (at the request of Mr. WAGGONNER), for today, on account of official business (Science and Astronautics Committee).

Mr. WEAVER (at the request of Mr. WAGGONNER), for today, on account of

official business (Science and Astronautics Committee).

Mr. GIBBONS for Monday, November 18, on account of business in district.

SPECIAL ORDERS GRANTED

By unanimous consent, permission to address the House, following the legislative program and any special orders heretofore entered, was granted to:

Mr. FINNEGAN, for 60 minutes, on Monday, November 18.

Mr. DENT, for 30 minutes, on Monday, November 18.

Mr. PERKINS, for 30 minutes, today. Mr. HALPERN (at the request of Mr. MACGREGOR), for 10 minutes, and to revise and extend his remarks and include extraneous matter.

Mr. HALPERN, for 5 minutes, today.

EXTENSION OF REMARKS

By unanimous consent, permission to extend remarks in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, or to revise and extend remarks, was granted to:

Mrs. SULLIVAN and to include extraneous matter while in Committee of the Whole on H.R. 8864.

Mrs. SULLIVAN and to include extraneous matter.

ADJOURNMENT

that the House do now adjourn. Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, I move

The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 4 o'clock and 32 minutes p.m.), under its previous order, the House adjourned until Monday, November 18, 1963, at 12 o'clock noon.

EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS,

ETC.

Under clause 2 of rule XXIV, executive communications were taken from the Speaker's table and referred as follows:

1366. A communication from the President of the United States, transmitting an amendment to the budget for the fiscal year 1964 in the amount of $45 million for public works acceleration (H. Doc. No. 173); to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.

1367. A letter from the Acting Adminis

trator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, transmitting a report to the Committee on Science and Astronautics of

the House of Representatives pursuant to

section 3 of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act for the fiscal year 1963 (76 Stat. 382, 383); to the Committee on Science and Astronautics. 1368. A letter from the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, transmitting the report of Federal contributions program-equipment

Mr. MILLS the remarks he made in Committee today and to include tables and extraneous matter.

(The following Members (at the request of Mr. MACGREGOR) and to include

extraneous matter:)

Mr. FINDLEY.

Mr. MARTIN of Nebraska.

Mrs. DWYER in two instances.
Mr. ASHBROOK.

(The following Members (at the request of Mr. GIBBONS) and to include extraneous matter:)

Mr. MURPHY of New York.

Mr. ROGERS of Florida.

BILLS PRESENTED TO THE
PRESIDENT

Mr. BURLESON, from the Committee on House Administration, reported that that committee did on November 13. 1963, present to the President, for his approval, bills of the House of the following titles:

H.R. 2073. An act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain submerged lands to the governments of Guam, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa, and for other purposes;

H.R. 3488. An act to provide for the striking of medals in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the statehood of the State of Indiana;

H.R. 5244. An act to modify the project on the Mississippi River at Muscatine, Iowa,

to permit the use of certain property for pub

lic park purposes; and

H.R. 7193. An act to provide for the striking of medals in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the first union health center in the United States by the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.

mittee on Armed Services.

1369. A letter from the Comptroller General of the United States, transmitting a re

port on unnecessary costs incurred by leasing, rather than purchasing, electronic data processing equipment at White Sands Missile Range, N. Mex., by the Department of the Army; to the Committee on Government Operations.

1370. A letter from the Secretary of Commerce, relative to providing war risk insurance and certain marine and liability insurance for the American public, and upon request for any department or agency of the United States for the period as of September 30, 1963, pursuant to the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, as amended; to the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries.

1371. A letter from the Chairman, Federal Maritime Commission, transmitting a draft of a proposed bill entitled "A bill to amend the provisions of section 15 of the Shipping Act, 1916, to provide for the exemption of certain terminal leases from penalties"; to the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries.

1372. A letter from the Secretary of the Army, transmitting an unfavorable report dated September 4, 1963, from the Chief of

Engineers, Department of the Army, together

with accompanying papers and an illustration, on a letter report on the Bon Secour River, Ala., pursuant to section 107 of the 1960 River and Harbor Act; to the Committee on Public Works.

REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports of committees were delivered to the Clerk for printing and reference to the proper

calendar, as follows:

Mr. ASPINALL: Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. H.R. 3846. A bill to establish a land and water conservation fund to assist the States and Federal agencies in meeting present and future outdoor recreation demands and needs of the American people,

H.R. 9125. A bill to amend Title I—Tariff Schedules of the United States, of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended by the Tariff Classification Act of 1962, to correct certain inequities in the classification and duty provided for certain aluminum products and television picture tubes; to the Committee on Ways and Means.

By Mr. ROGERS of Florida:

H.R. 9126. A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to increase the amount of outside earnings permitted each year without deductions from benefits thereunder; to the Committee on Ways and Means.

By Mr. ST. ONGE:

H.R. 9127. A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, to establish the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration, to provide grants

for research and development, to increase grants for construction of municipal sewage treatment works, to authorize the issuance of regulations to aid in preventing, controlling, and abating pollution of interstate waters, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Public Works.

By Mr. SCHWEIKER: H.R. 9128. A bill to provide an elected mayor, city council. and nonvoting Delegate trict of Columbia, and for other purposes; to the House of Representatives for the Disto the Committee on the District of Columbia.

By Mr. STAEBLER:

H.R. 9129. A bill to establish a Great Lakes Resource Development Commission to promote the development of the regions contiguous to the Great Lakes in the States bordering on the Great Lakes; to the Committee on Public Works.

By Mrs. SULLIVAN:

H.R. 9130. A bill to require the inspection of certain towing vessels; to the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries.

By Mr. TALCOTT:

H.R. 9131. A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code with respect to the basis on which certain dependency and indemnity compensation will be computed; to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

By Mr. TEAGUE of Texas (by re

quest):

H.R. 9132. A bill to amend section 107 of title 38, United States Code, to provide that the benefits authorized therein shall be at a rate in pesos as is equivalent to $0.50 for each dollar authorized, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. By Mr. ASPINALL:

H.R. 9133. A bill to authorize the disposition of certain property at Hot Springs National Park, in the State of Arkansas, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.

By Mr. STRATTON:

H.R. 9134. A bill to amend the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 with respect to the procedure for amending orders; to the Committee on Agriculture.

By Mr. SHEPPARD: H.R. 9139. A bill making appropriations for military construction for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1964, and for other purposes.

By Mr. CHAMBERLAIN:

H.J. Res. 802. Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States; to the Committee on the Judiciary.

By Mr. ROONEY of Pennsylvania: H.J. Res. 803. Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States; to the Committee on the Judiciary.

H.R. 9137. A bill for the relief of Carina Barthow; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. POWELL:

H.R. 9138. A bill for the relief of Gerardo

of the Ervin amendment; to the Committee on Education and Labor.

452. Also, petition of Henry Stoner, General Delivery, Worland, Wyo., requesting that a set of books or volumes be printed showing all laws of the United States now in force; to the Committee on the Judiciary.

SENATE

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1963

(Legislative day of Tuesday,
October 22, 1963)

The Senate met at 12 o'clock meridian, on the expiration of the recess, and was called to order by the President pro tempore.

Rev. C. Hoke Sewell, D.D., pastor, First Methodist Church, College Park, Ga., offered the following prayer:

Eternal God, our gracious Heavenly Father, we thank Thee for this land of ours. We thank Thee for the opportunities it offers us and for the hope it holds up to the entire world. We recognize that we need Thy help. We turn our minds and hearts unto Thee for strength for this day. We are trusting Thee for guidance. Our responsibilities make it necessary that we be strong. We ask that the Holy Spirit help us provide leadership, that we may serve Thee and our fellow men to the very best of our knowledge and ability. knowledge and ability. May Thy spirit help us to act wisely. Help us, O God, that we may always do what is right. May our actions be in the best interests of all who depend upon us for leadership at home and around the world.

O God, help us to give ourselves to the highest we know. Help us to keep humble and at the same time be strong enough to give our all in Christian service.

We pray in the Master's name. Amen.

THE JOURNAL

On request of Mr. MANSFIELD, and by unanimous consent, the reading of the Journal of the proceedings of Wednesday, November 13, 1963, was dispensed with.

MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT

Messages in writing from the President tions were communicated to the Senate of the United States submitting nominaby Mr. Miller, one of his secretaries.

MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE

A message from the House of Repre

The message also announced that the House had passed a bill (H.R. 9009) to amend further the Peace Corps Act, as amended, in which it requested the concurrence of the Senate.

HOUSE BILL REFERRED

The bill (H.R. 9009) to amend further the Peace Corps Act, as amended, was read twice by its title and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

TRANSACTION OF ROUTINE
BUSINESS

On request of Mr. MANSFIELD, and by unanimous consent, it was ordered that there be a morning hour, with statements limited to 3 minutes.

COMMITTEE MEETING DURING SENATE SESSION

On request of Mr. MANSFIELD, and by unanimous consent, the Internal Security Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee was authorized to meet during the session of the Senate today.

EXECUTIVE SESSION

Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration of executive business, to consider the nominations on the Executive Calendar.

The motion was agreed to; and the Senate proceeded to the consideration of executive business.

EXECUTIVE MESSAGES REFERRED

The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate messages from the President of the United States submitting sundry nominations, which were referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

(For nominations this day received, see the end of Senate proceedings.)

EXECUTIVE REPORTS OF COMMIT

TEE ON ARMED SERVICES Mr. YOUNG of Ohio. Mr. President, from the Committee on Armed Services, I report favorably the nominations of seven rear admirals for permanent appointment in the Naval Reserve, two temporary promotions to the grade of rear admiral in the Naval Reserve, one

permanent appointment to the grade of to the grade of brigadier general in the major general in the Marine Corps Reserve, and two permanent appointments Marine Corps Reserve. I ask that these nominations be placed on the Executive Calendar.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The

PETITIONS, ETC.

Under clause 1 of rule XXII, petitions and papers were land on the Clerk's desk and referred as follows:

451. By the SPEAKER: Petition of Rev. Forrest L. Knapp, general secretary, Massachusetts Council of Churches, Boston, Mass., relative to expressing opposition to legislation making making public funds available, whether by grants or loans, to sectarian institutions for the construction of facilities, and supporting, in any event, the substance

reading clerks, announced that the House had disagreed to the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 6754) making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture and related agencies for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1964, and for other purposes; agreed to the conference asked by the Senate on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses thereon, and that Mr. WHITTEN, Mr. NATCHER, Mr. CANNON, Mr. HORAN, and Mr. MICHEL were appointed managers on the part of the House at the conference.

tive Calendar.

The nominations are as follows:

Harry R. Canaday, and sundry other officers, for permanent promotion to the Naval Reserve;

Richard D. Adams and Edward H. Gessner, for temporary promotion in the Naval Reserve; and

Walter A. Churchill, Richard A. Evans, and Robert B. Bell, for permanent appointment in the Marine Corps Reserve.

Mr. ERVIN. Mr. President, from the Committee on Armed Services, I report favorably the nominations of 25 flag and