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back at the Communists with one simple observation. We could observe that the little

people of Russia knew most about coexist- ence since their own attitude about com- munism at home in Russia is merely one of

internal coexistence.

We could say to them, as Menderes of Turkey has said, "If you really believe in co- existence, why don't you stop trying to grab off country after country? Why don't you let

them coexist instead of demanding that they

e::ist only as you dictate?

I am impatient with the greatly professed

fears about the Afro-Asian Conference at Bandung. Instead of muddling in pessimism about that conference, let us look at the

opportunities we actually have on this con- ference. After all we do have a few friendly

countries attending that conference-Thailand, Turkey, the Philippines, Viet-Nam,

Iraq, Pakistan, Ethiopia, and Japan.

They will not be mere mutes there. They

will talk realistically and constructively.

They may be outnumbered-but they will be

heard.

We should not stop with reliance upon

them to carry the responsibility for the free

half of the world. The point is that we should not be trembling mutes ourselves.

We should seize upon a golden opportunity

of taking advantage of this conference.

We should broadcast a message beamed

directly at Bandung that we approve of the

conference in the objective of raising the

world prestige and position of the people of

Asia and Africa, that we are in full accord

with their opposition to colonialism; and

that we support their aspirations for independence and self-reliance.

Yes, instead of pouting and fretting with

a negative attitude, we should seize the

initiative with such a positive and direct

approach. We should show them that we

are the opponents of colonialism; that the

Communists are the present-day advocates

of colonialism; and that such Russian colonialism would have decisions concerning

New Delhi, Rangoon, Cairo, Jakarta, Saigon,

Adis Ababa, and Johannesburg made in Moscow by the men in the Kremlin instead of

each of those cities.

We should warn them that attempts by

the Communists to have this conference result in banding brown men together to hate

and fight white men are but another step

in the Communist evil design and pattern of

"confuse, divide, and conquer." For proof

we need only to point out the obvious fact

that through the "confuse, divide, and conquer" pattern, Moscow now makes the decisions for Prague, Budapest, Warsaw, Hanoi,

and Peiping.

I am impatient with the continued blocking of the admission of Spain to NATO.

When we take Western Germany and Italy, who were our active enemies in World War

II, into NATO and exclude Spain, a bitter

enemy of communism, one wonders if NATO

really is for the purpose of mutual security

and defense against aggressive communism.

The time has come when our leadership

in world affairs must increase in boldness

and firmness if we are to cope successfully

with the threat to the freedom of the world.

The time has come when the very basis

of our foreign policy must change. It must shift from the past negative basis of fearfear of Russia-to a positive basis of con- fidence in ourselves and nations friendly to us. We have every reason for confidence in

ourselves. We should start acting that way instead of indulging in pessimism.

We must start charting our course in the

confident realism that we are the greatest

Nation in the world-and the world's great- est hope for peace-that we are through with

letting Russia scare us-that we are plenty

capable of taking care of ourselves-and that we must strive for positive construction instead of fear-minded, negative defensiveness that stresses countermoves instead of

maintaining the initiative.

SENATE

MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1955

(Legislative day of Monday, May 2,

1955)

The Senate met at 12 o'clock meridian,

on the expiration of the recess.

The Chaplain, Rev. Frederick Brown

Harris, D. D., offered the following

prayer:

Our Father God, this sacred altar at

which our spirits bow at another week's

beginning with all its draining demands

is the witness of our weakness, of how

fruitless are our quests, and how futile

are our arguments and discussions if we

turn not to Thee in the humility of

prayer. In these fateful days, for whose

decisions the future will judge us, by

Thine enabling might may we maintain

our integrity unsullied by animosities,

prejudices, or personal ambition, regarding always public office as a sacred trust.

As our frail hands and fallible judgments

have a part in the shaping of the world

that is to be and which our children's

children will inherit, give to us the vision,

the wisdom, and the courage that will

make for both justice and lasting peacepeace with honor and human dignity

vindicated, and social justice the canopy

of all the nations. In the Redeemer's

name we ask it. Amen.

THE JOURNAL

On request of Mr. JOHNSON of Texas,

and by unanimous consent, the reading

of the Journal of the proceedings of

Thursday, June 2, 1955, was dispensed

with.

KURT GLASER-VETO MESSAGE

(S. DOC. NO. 47)

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The

Chair lays before the Senate a letter

from the Secretary of the Senate, dated

June 3, 1955, which the clerk will read.

The legislative clerk read as follows:

UNITED STATES SENATE,

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY,

June 3, 1955.

Hon. RICHARD M. NIxON,

President o/ the Senate,

Washington, D. C.

DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: On today, during the

recess of the Senate from yesterday until

Monday next, there was received by me the

attached sealed envelope, addressed to the

President of the Senate of the United States,

said to contain a veto message on S. 143, an

act for the relief of Kurt Glaser.

I am herewith delivering to you the said

message for presentation to the Senate at its session on Monday next.

Very respectfully,

FELTON M. JOHNSTON,

Secretary of the Senate.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Friday, June 3, 1955, being the last day of

the period prescribed by the Constitution for action by the President on the

bill, the Secretary of the Senate, under a decision of the Supreme Court, was

authorized to receive the veto message

for action by the Senate thereon.

The clerk will read the veto message

of the President.

The legislative clerk read as follows:

To the Senate:

I return herewith, without my approval, S. 143, for the relief of Kurt

Glaser.

The bill would accord permanent residence immigration status to a native of

Czechoslovakia who entered this country

in July 1951 from Austria as an exchange visitor under one of the programs authorized by the United States

Information and Educational Exchange

Act of 1948.

All of the exchange programs are founded upon good faith. We can maintain them as effective instruments for

promoting international understanding

and good will only if we insist that the

participants honor their commitments

to observe the conditions of the exchange

in the same way that they expect the

United States to honor its obligations

to them. On the one hand, exchange

aliens must return to the country from

which they came. On the other hand,

the United States must not permit

either immediate reentry or other eva- sion of the return rule. Otherwise, the

countries from which our exchange visitors come will realize little or no benefit from the training and experience

received in the United States, and we shall fail to promote good will toward

and better understanding of our way of

life.

Unfortunately, the United States Information and Educational Exchange

Act does not specifically obligate ex- change personnel to return to the coun- try from which admitted and to remain

there for a minimum period before being

eligible to regain admission to the

United States. Administrative requirements have been imposed to compensate for this lack of a specific statutory

requirement. Within the last year, however, a number of cases have arisen in

which humanitarian and equitable con- siderations have argued so persuasively against imposing such a requirement

that the Congress has been willing to

consider and to enact a number of private bills to adjust the status of ex- change personnel. By permitting them

to remain in the United States for permanent residence, these bills have

granted them immigration status without regard to the normal procedures under our immigration laws.

Up to the present time, most of the

circumstances which have led to the en- actment of each bill have been excep- tional. Even though I have recognized that the principle underlying each bill was at variance with the basic concept

and philosophy of the exchange programs, I have not been willing to require deportation at the possible risk of creating undue hardship and, in several cases,

of jeopardizing the safety of the individual concerned.

Such considerations are not present in

the case of Mr. Glaser. I am satisfied

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that both he and his sponsor understood

their obligations to terminate his stay.

In fact, the State Department's records

indicate that a basic purpose of the sponsoring company in seeking exchange

visitors was to train foreign engineers in

the company's specialty in cooperation

with the International Center of the

University of Louisville. Furthermore,

certification was signed by the vice president of the company in which the following appears:

An attempt will be made to insure, insofar

as possible, that any exchange visitor coming

under the program of the sponsoring agency

will adhere to the conditions under which

he was admitted to the United States and

will depart from the United States on completion of the purpose of the visit.

. Finally, there is no evidence that a return to Austria will work any hardship

on either the company or Mr. Glaser

beyond that of disrupting an association

which has proved productive, useful,

friendly, and profitable.

Under the circumstances, therefore, I

feel it is my duty to disapprove this bill

and at the same time to recommend

enactment by the Congress of a clear

statutory requirement that exchange

personnel return home and remain there

for a minimum period before being

eligible to reenter the United States for

permanent residence. Such provisions

of law will protect the purposes of the

exchange program, will prevent unjustifiable evasion of immigration procedures, and will establish legislative

policy to guide the committees of Congress in taking action on future private

bills which would set aside the general

law. Legislation for this purpose has

been forwarded to the Congress by the

Department of State this week. I urge

its prompt consideration.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER.

THE WHITE HOUSE, June 3, 1955.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The

message from the President, together

with the accompanying bill, will be referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and be printed.

REPORTS OF A COMMITTEE SUBMITTED DURING RECESS

Under authority of the order of the

Senate of June 2, 1955,

The following reports of a committee

were submitted on June 3, 1955:

By Mr. HILL, from the Committee on Appropriations:

H. R. 5046. A bill making appropriations

for the Departments of Labor, and Health,

Education, and Welfare, and related agencies,

for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1956, and

for other purposes; with amendments

(Rept. No. 410).

By Mr. MAGNUSON, from the Committee

on Appropriations:

H.R. 5240. A bill making appropriations

for sundry independent executive bureaus,

boards, commissions, corporations, agencies.

and offices, for the fiscal year ending June

30, 1956, and for other purposes; with

amendments (Rept. No. 411).

NOTICES OF MOTIONS TO SUSPEND

THE RULE--AMENDMENTS TO INDEPENDENT OFFICES APPROPRIATION BILL-SUBMITTED DURING

RECESS

Pursuant to the order of the Senate

of June 2, 1955,

Mr. MAGNUSON, from the Committee

on Appropriations, on June 3, 1955, submitted the following notices in writing:

In accordance with rule XL of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby give notice

in writing that it is my intention to move

to suspend paragraph 4 of rule XVI for the

purpose of proposing to the bill (H. R. 5240)

making appropriations for sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions,

corporations, agencies, and offices, for the

fiscal year ending June 30, 1956, and for other

purposes, the following amendment, namely:

On page 2, after line 1, insert a new section,

as follows:

"ALEXANDER HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL

COMMasISSION

"For an additional amount for 'Alexander

Hamilton Bicentennial Commission,' $15,000:

Provided, That said appropriation shall be

immediately available and remain available

until expended."

Mr. MAGNUSON also submitted an

amendment, intended to be proposed by

him to House bill 5240, making appropriations for sundry independent executive bureaus, -boards, commissions, corporations, agencies, and offices, for the

fiscal year ending June 30, 1956, and for

other purposes, which had been ordered

to lie on the table and to be printed.

(For text of amendment referred to,

see the foregoing notice.)

In accordance with rule XL of the StandIng Rules of the Senate, I hereby give notice

in writing that It is my intention to move to

suspend paragraph 4 of rule XVI for the

purpose of proposing to the bill (H. R. 5240)

making appropriations for sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions,

corporations, agencies, and offices, for the

fiscal year ending June 30, 1956, and for other

purposes, the following amendment, namely:

On page 10, line 19, after the sum insert the

following: "Provided, That the fourth paragraph under the heading 'General Accounting Office' in Public Law 137, approved August 31, 1951 (65 Stat. 274), as amended by

Public Law 455, approved July 5, 1952 (66

Stat. 399), and Public Law 428, approved

June 24, 1954 (68 Stat. 280), is further

amended by changing '2 positions in grade

GS-17' to '4 positions In Grade GS-17,' and

'12 positions in grade GS-16' to '13 positions

in grade GS-16."'

Mr. MAGNUSON also submitted an

amendment, intended to be proposed by

him to House bill 5240, making appropriations for sundry independent executive

bureaus, boards, commissions, corporations, agencies, and offices, for the fiscal

year ending June 30, 1956, and for other

purposes, which had been ordered to lie

on the table and to be printed.

(For text of amendment referred to,

see the foregoing notice.)

In accordance with rule XL of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby give notice

in writing that it is my intention to move

to suspend paragraph 4 of rule XVI for the

purpose of proposing to the bill (H. R. 5240)

making appropriations for sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions,

corporations, agencies, and offices, for the

fiscal year ending June 30, 1956, and for

other purposes, the following amendment,

namely: On page 30, line 6, after "program",

insert the-following: "and of which $300,000 .shall be available as the President may direct for a special study of the compensation

and pensions program."

Mr. MAGNUSON also submitted an

amendment, intended to be proposed by

him to House bill 5240, making appropriations for sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, corporations, agencies, and offices, for the

fiscal year ending June 30, 1956, and for

other purposes, which had been ordered

to lie on the table and to be printed.

(For text of amendment referred to,

see the foregoing notice.)

In accordance with rule XL of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby give notice

in writing that It is my intention to move

to suspend paragraph 4 of rule XVI for the

purpose of proposing to the bill (H. R. 5240)

making appropriations for sundry Independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions,

corporations, agencies, and offices, for the

fiscal year ending June 30, 1956, and for

other purposes, the following amendment,

namely: On page 30, line 9, after the word

"work" insert the following: "Provided further, That no part of any appropriation shall

be used to pay educational institutions for

reports and certifications of attendance at

such institutions an allowance at a rate in

excess of $1 per month for each eligible

veteran enrolled in and attending such institution."

Mr. MAGNUSON also submitted an

amendment, intended to be proposed by

him to House bill 5240, making appropriations for sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, corporations, agencies, and offices, for the

fiscal year ending June 30, 1956, and for

other purposes, which had been ordered

to lie on the table and to be printed.

(For text of amendment referred to,

see the foregoing notice.)

In accordance with rule XL of the Standing

Rules of the Senate, I hereby give notice in

writing that it is my intention to move to

suspend paragraph 4 of rule XVI for the

purpose of proposing to the bill (H. R. 5340)

making appropriations for sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions,

corporations, agencies, and offices, for the

fiscal year ending June 30, 1956, and for

other purposes, the following amendment,

namely: On page 32, line 18, after "dental

care" insert the following: "Provided, That

hereafter no part of any appropriation to the

Veterans' Administration shall be available

for outpatient dental services and treatment,

or related dental appliances with respect to a

service-connected dental disability which is

not compensable in degree unless such condition or disability is shown to have been in

existence at time of discharge and application

for treatment is made within 1 year after

discharge: Provided further, That this limitation shall not apply to adjunct outpatient

dental services or appliances for any dental

condition associated with and held to be

aggravating disability from such other service-incurred or service-aggravated Injury or

disease."

Mr. MAGNUSON also submitted an

amendment, intended to be proposed by

him to House bill 5240, making appropriations for sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, corporations, agencies, and offices, for the

fiscal year ending June 30, 1956, and for

other purposes, which had been ordered

to lie on the table and to be printed.

(For text of amendment referred to,

see the foregoing notice.)

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