Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-25
i Rise
TO
Remark
BY Congressman John Philips

tinues. In last weeks column. re
marked that published figures 70
appropriations for this program
were shown as Is billions in all.
offered TO add them up to 58 bill
lions.
You add them for yourselves. Firs
LII appropriation. 7 billions; sec
ond. billions I'm only givins
round figureS); third. about fivt
and a half billions; that makes tht
S18.410,O00.00O usually announced.
Now add to that, from the Wal
Department. the following trans.
ferS". third supplemental. two bill
lions. fourth supplemental, foul
billions; fifth supplemental. III
billions: sixth supplemental, two
and one-fourth billions; and to this
add a transfer from the Military
Appropriation act of 1943 of almost
Is billions: and a second supple
mental" transfer from the Navy
department. of three billions. plus
transfers from other departments
of 500 millions. and we already
have an additional SO billions, ap-
rroXimately.
NOT THE TOP
Then add the values of ships
which ma be leased" from the
Maritime Commission for five bill
liens. and from the navy listed as
no limitation as to amount. and
you'll see that my estimate of the
cost of LII as 5S billions was per-
haps not the top.
The money itself is not the issue.
What want John q. Public to say,
when he sits down at the table
with Mary Pubic. and John junior,
and little Molly. ard the baby, Eze-
kial twho was named after the rich
uncle in Montana, the one who owns
the big ranch and has no children
/ of his oWr) is this. We'll, Mary, I
see they've loaned the Allies an
other 5000 Of our money! For
every time Congress, or any admin
iStrative agency. to which we have
given such power. spends or gives
away or loans a billion dollars. it
means seven dollars to every man,
woman and child in the United
States. or S35 to the average family
of five.
When the Congress accepted and
approved a Federal budget of l09
billions for 1943, it means S3,815
out CT the pockets Of every such
ave age family
NOT FAMILIAR
Finally, there are two paragraphs !
in, AO+ oDd tho CI1sNfNlo,p1nr1tar q
agreements with our Allies, with /
which you may not be personally !
familiar. /
In the Act, Section 3, subsection
tb) reads as follows:
The terms and conditions up
on which such foreign govern
ment receives any aid Authorized !
under subsection (a) snail be |
those which the President deems !
satisfactory, and the benefit to !
the United States may be pay /
ment or repayment in kind or
property, or any other direct or
indirect benefit the President
deems satisfactory"
I rise to remark that this is put
ting plenty of power in one mans +
hands. 1t means that in the post ]
war negotiations, and ar 'angements, +
the President of the United States, /
whoever he may then be. will have T
the sole and exclusive authority, to I
settle all debts, to arrange trade F
treaties, to do anything which he I
and he alone deems satisfactory. +
And if you disagree that this is in I
anyone's mind, let me call %our at
tention to the fact that the word |
deems is ,rOaGer and less con- /
fnirg Wcrd than finds" for finds
would have to be supported by evil
dence of some kind, and the Con- /.
gressional Record carries the state ,
ments of men who sat in the origi-
nal conferences on the wording of
the Act, that the wO'd deems"
was insisted urOn at that time.
RUSSIA AGREEMENT
Finally. read with me Article VII
of any one of the agreements. which
support the Act. l will take
the one with - C.S.SR Russia)
for that is printed in the booklet
before ne:
IN tie final determination of
the benefits to be provided to
the United States of America by
the Government of the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics in re-
turn for aid furnished under the
Act of Congress of March IL, 194l,
the terms and cond .tiOns there
of shall be such as not to burden
commerce between the two cOun-
tries, but to promote mutually
adyantas - economic relations
between them and the better
ment of worldwide economic re-
latiOns. To that end. they shall
include provision for agreed ac-
tion by the United States of
America and the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics, open TO parti-
cipatiOn by all other countries of
like mind, directed to the expan-
sino, by appropriate international
and domestic measures, of pro-
ductiOn, employment, and the
exchange and consumption of
goods, which are the material
foundations Of the liberty and
welfare Of all peoples; to the
elimination of all forms of dis
criminatOry treatment in interna-
tiOnal commerce, and TO the re-
dIc'ian of tariffs and other trade
barriers; and. in general, to the
attainment If all rie economic
objecii?cS set fOr..l i'm the Joint
Declaration r:ade on August Ia,