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J af x $325 Cc o.oo J” Hew: rote back and sai, ‘No; Wes ral toot GO web” I Pare urprised ig think chat the ma- jority 2 onder feels that iL is unfair of me to try to force the Secrcovary of State ta do what any loyal american would do. zest gthat the majority leader, toget.er with embers of his party wha Git considerable eryinu about the smear- int ct Owen Lattimore. go over and Histcn ty the testimony given before the MeCarran committee. I suggest also that my friends on the othe: side of the aisle who are doing everytning poss'"ie to label their party as a pariy of Communists and erecks, €9 oy. and see some good Democrats sittings on the AlcCarran committee, men who ove Americans first and Democrats secon: Tousey on the floor of the <enate T saty the Senatay from Nevada thir. Mc- / Caurev, who was celebrating hs Sev- -enty-filth birthday, a really star- “Spar - mec American aud a credit toc wy warty I am re he renresents the loyal Dem- oora.: vi Us Nation rather than those “who get up and scream to high heaven and suv, “Joe McCarTuy, you are smear- ing tl. (a poor, innocent Communists.” [Manifestations of applause from gal- levi¢s.i SALE | ¥ MARSHALL PLAN NATIONS OF STRATEGIC WAR MATERIALS tr, REM, Mr, President. on benalf of th: Serster from Nebsuska {d4fr, Warney), the Senator from Virginia [Mr, I-yre}, the Senater from Nevada [Mr. 3 MALONE! , aud myself. I ask unanl- mous consent to inlroduce a bill to amend section 1282, Public Law 45, Vighty-second Cougress, pie so-called Eem imencment rere ceint ne cbjeciion. the bill (S. I9E7) providing for the termination of assistance ta foreign countries export- ing war materials i. Russia or her satel- lites, introduced by Mr, Kear for him- self, Mo. Wrraryv, Mr. Even, and wir, Macon. Was received, read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Foreiiu. Slelacicus. Mr, EEM. Myr. Presideiut, this bill would make the fulowing changes in the present bw: ' rake its sions aps plicable to rnilite Ty as well as ecaromic and financial assistance. This would bring within the coverace of the amend- Tacnt Marshall plas nations who are now engaged in selling stratesic war mate. rials 19 the Reds, cad who are now res ceiving military bu: not economic as- sistance from the Unitcd Sintes. Second. It would make its provisions apply reaardiess cf whether the Armed Forees cf the United States are actively €neazed ia hostil-aes, Third. It would s vike out the proviso that execptions to tHe provisions of the amendment may be made at the dciscre- tion of the National Security Council When the Kem amendment was adopted by the Senate the Senator from Arizona {Mr. Hayprnj said: My criticism fs that the amendment does nol go far enough, in that 1t would be effec vive only while the United States is actually engaged in hostilittes. Another criticism ja that i, dcales ecce ‘nomic assistance, but it does not deny mull- GRESSIONAL R: Tare essi.tance. To cams. + understand wiry we should allow any kind of military as- sistance tO any country to whith we ure denying economle assistance, We have learned from experience that f we ore to ston traning tha Commu- if we are to stop arming the Commu- sts through our aliles, Congress must pass an iron-clad, escane-proof law, that is mandatory upon the President. Two laws With built-in loophcles have fai'ted to accomplish their abicetive. Section 1204, Public Law 843, Eichty- first Coneress, approved September 27, 1950, provided that no economic or fi- nancial assistance was to be provided by the United States to any foreign country whose trade with Russia or its satellites, ineliding Red China, was found by the United States National Se- curity Council to be “contrary to the security interests of the United States.” Under this law, the National Security Council, of which President Truman is Chairman, took no effective action to halt the chorleiye sale 5 e stratecic me Mail The SACCAME Baie oF terinis by Marshall-plan countries t¢ the very enemy now killin: and maiming our boys in Borea. No action was teken cespite the fact that the Inte Admiral Forrest Sherman told the Senate com- TMittees investigating the MacArthur dismissal that the Joint Chiefs of S:aff on March 28, 1851, advised the Secre- tary of Defense that growing military assistance to Communist China by non- Commun'st countries other than the United Stetes constituted “a direct threat tao the security interests of the United States.” The failure of the National Security Council to act constituted a cellous dis- regard of the safety and .elfare of the American boys in Korea. It was con- trary to the express will of the Con- gress, On May 9, 1951, I int .*:ced, on be- half of miyself and oth... senaters, an amencmeut to the third supplemental appropriations bill providing that eco- nomic or financial assistance would be automaticany shut off to any countvy which continues to sell war mate.sials to the Communists. The Senate ap- proved this amendment unanimously. After the conference committee had mage certain changes, including the ad- ition of the ill-fated and misused ex- ception clause, both Houses of Congress approved the bill as amended. In taking this action, the Concress made clear that it was dissatisfied with the steps which lind been taken to halt the flow of war goods to the enemy wie G2 Ba Walt EUOGS BO Le SM, On June 16, 1951, Congress and the AMerican people were shocked and amazed to learn that the National Secu- rity Council had suspended entirely the eperation of ine war-good.-hban amend- ment for $0 drys, The amendment provides “that ex- eeptions to those provisions may be made upon an official determinaiion of the National Security Council that such ex- ception is in the security interest of the United States.” To except is defined by Webster as “to leave out from a numbe. of a whole.” The National Security Council sus- pended the whole amendment. This meat-ax approach {s entirely unjustificd and unjustifiable, This action has no CORD--SE} LE Aucust 9 moval, leral, or constitutional basis. It isa flazrant disregard of the express in- tent of the elected répresentatives of the pecple. Since the Nationa’ Seeu: the arene mp anit 4 rity Council mare thon ere tian suc en: vd suspended tale cade a thaadd “ 5,009 American boys have been killed ov wounded in Korea. Yhe shipment of strategie War material-ond I do noi mean women's baiking suits+ie the Reds who kitled or wounded those boys has gone on. i have chialned fresh eviderce that Marshall-plan countries are continuing their vicious sales of strategic materials to the Commrunisis, including the Chi- nese Reds and North Koreans. Dep.rtrent of Commerce officials tell us that during the first 3 months of 1951 alone italy exported $1,151,000 worth of ball and roller bearings to countries be- hind the iron curtain. When asked spe- cifics lly if these shipments are continu- hist ar the present time the answer De- Partners of Comme. i oMcials these 62.1) Meats are Gouiuing, Duri:.., aiuy 1951 the Kritish Sociatist Government permitted $275,968 worth of macnine toois to be exported to the Soviet Union, compared with oniy $54,- 406 during May 1950. During the 5 months ending May 31, 1951, $1,559,865 warth of machine tools were sole by the British to the U. S.S. R. and $1,638,943 worth of electrical ventrating seis and Beneracors. I offer the proposed changes im the Present law as a Way to hait this shame- ful busin 16-3. The Batie bin recentiy passed ne the Focuse > not, in my judgment, meet tiv situat.o. Tt is another discretéénary Inw We nave had exp se “lence with two | ter On disci:eticnary laws, and the traffie be- tween Mar hall-plan ecuntries and the Russian bloc in strategic war materials has vone cn unabated. What we need is A mMancatory law with teeth in it. Mr. WHERRY. Mr, President, will the Senarar yield? Mr. KEM. I yield. Mr. WHERRY. Whoi the 2. in- fuishec Senator from Missouri is ex- pressing is that under the so-called escape claure, a5 itis interpreted by ECA, there is permitted to convinue in the law a loophole by means of which countries are enabied to engage in the damnable traffic, repardless of the fact that ine Senate intended. as I believe it intends now, to have on the books a mandatory stavute which would pronibit such trum To rawrnnst Am & UVALOLES Myr. KEM. That is excetly correct Mr. WHERRY. The Senator from Missouri. who has taken on interest fo the subject, .s now asking ive Senate to amend the levistaticu * rn Ored by mim 5 % elyucea sn make the provisions cf the legislation mandatory, just as the Senator from Arizona iMr. Hayvses] s..d it shonld@ ic mece mandatory wh the Senate adopted the so-called Ker amendyicnt. Is that ecorrest? fy, KEM. That is correc: However, I do not believe thet tic Siaator from Avizona touched on that point... The escape clause had not deen LDeerted when the bill pared ire denat The estape cluuse was jut into the b.L. wu conferenre,