Whereas the lesson of the Korean police action is that the United States, while bearing 90 percent of the cost in lives and dollars, was denied victory by the political considerations of the United Nations;

Resolved, That the 44th Annual Congress of the National Society of New England Women urge the President of the United States not to transfer any of our United States Armed Forces to the United Nations or any international command under "treaty obligations" or otherwise.

(III) United States aid to satellite governments

Whereas the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has drained the satellite countries of their resources; and

Whereas, it is proposed to give money and materials to the Governments of Poland, Hungary, and other satellites of the U. S. S. R. which enslave their people,

Resolved, That the 44th Annual Congress of the National Society of New England Women oppose financial and material aid to the satellite governments of the U. S. S. R. which make it possible for these oppressors of their people to stay in power.

(IV) Reduce the $71.8 billion budget

Whereas the budget of fiscal 1955 was $64.6 billion and has increased to nearly $72 billion, the larger part of the increase being in domestic civilian expenditures and not in the miiltary,

Whereas to curb inflation, reduce taxes and prevent the triumph of socialism by spending ourselves into destruction:

Resolved, That the 44th Annual Congress of the National Society of New England Women support the bipartisan leaders of both Houses of Congress who are determined to cut this largest peacetime budget in history.

(V) Proposed legislation on civil rights

Whereas so-called civil-rights legislation would sacrifice liberties guaranteed to all citizens by the Bill of Rights of the Constitution of the United States and wipe out States rights for government by commission and police state methods of enforcement:

Resolved, That the 44th Annual Congress of the National Society of New England Women oppose all so-called civil-rights legislation now pending in the Congress of the United States;

(VI) Senate cloture rule

Whereas civil-rights agitators are working to change the Senate rule on the closing of debate in that body in order to make easier the passage of civil-rights legislation; and

Whereas seven bills before a subcommittee of the Senate Rules and Administration Committee propose (1) to change the presently required affirmative vote of two-thirds of the Senators duly chosen and sworn (2) to two-thirds of those present and voting, or (3) to a simple majority vote; and

Whereas traditionally the Senate is a curb upon action by the House and is now the only free parliamentary body left in the world:

Resolved, That the 44th Annual Congress of the National Society of New England Women urge the Rules Committee and the Senate of the United States not to stifle freedom of speech on the Senate floor, but to maintain its present rule requiring an affirmative vote of "two-thirds of Senators duly chosen and sworn" as this country's greatest protection against adoption of harmful legislation promoted by special interest groups for selfish ends.

(VII) Federal aid to school construction

Whereas professional educators have lobbied for Federal aid to schools for 30 years under any pretext and now are the chief advocates of Federal aid for school construction; and

Whereas the evidence is overwhelming that the States do not need or want more Federal aid to school construction:

Resolved, That the 44th Annual Congress of the National Society of New England Women reaffirm its opposition to more Federal aid to education in whatever guise and urge continued faith in the ability of crossroads America to best known and meet local school needs, without the risk of control, inevitable with so-called Federal aid.

(VIII) Socialism in the churches

Whereas socialism is fruit of the same tree as communism; and

Whereas church social action programs in the name of "peace" and "brotherhood" make socialism respectable:

Resolved, That the 44th Annual Congress of the National Society of New England Women recognize the fallacy and danger of promoting measures which can lead only to world socialism and the autocratic state and protest using our churches and our money for such political purposes.

(IX) Courtesy resolution

Mrs. ERNEST H. PERKINS,
Mrs. FRANK PARCELLS,

Mrs. FLOYD WOOLSEY,

Mrs. GERALD O. INMAN,

Mrs. WM. D. LEETCH, Chairman,
Resolutions Committee.

NATIONAL SOCIETY, DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION,
Washington 6, D. C., May 20, 1957.

Senator THEODORE FRANCIS GREEN,

Chairman, Senate Foreign Relations Committee,

United States Capitol, Washington, D. C.

DEAR SENATOR GREEN: I wish to convey to you and the members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Senate members of the Joint Atomic Energy Committee, the official stand of the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, regarding the ratification by the Senate of the United States of a statute of the International Atomic Energy Agency as a treaty. I would request that this letter be made a part of the official record covering the proceedings of the committee regarding this subject.

The 66th Continental Congress, National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, April 15-19, 1957, adopted the following resolution:

INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY

Whereas the world's best hope for peace rests in the superior knowledge of and possession by the United States of America of atomic energy materials and resources; and

Whereas the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will soon consider the ratification of a statute of the International Atomic Energy Agency as a treaty, which, if ratified, would place atomic-energy knowledge and resources of the United States under the international control of friends and foes alike; and

Whereas a staff study of the 84th Congress listed 56 pages of Soviet political treaties and violations which demonstrate that so-called safeguards written into treaties are impossible to enforce :

Resolved, That the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, urge the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to refuse to recommend the ratification of this statute as a treaty; and

Resolved, That if the proposed treaty is presented to the Senate, the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, urge that body to refuse to give its advice and consent to such ratification.

It is interesting to note that in a book published in 1948, entitled, "Peace Or Anarchy," by Cord Meyer, Jr., past president of the United World Federalists, the author, on page 157, in developing the thought that the United Nations must have an assured and adequate source of funds, points out that a strengthened United Nations, through its control of atomic energy, would receive a substantial income from the sale of atomic power. Page 170, "There is secondly the necessity of being prepared to deal with national revolt against the United Nations. For this purpose the United Nations police must be armed with those modern weapons which the national governments would be prohibited from owning."

In the book, World Government via the United Nations, by Clark M. Eichelberger, director, American Association for the United Nations, we find the following:

“*** However, I believe that world government is coming through new forms-many of them administrative forms, such as the agency recommended by the Atomic Energy Commission * * * These developments will take place within the United Nations. I believe that the United Nations is the beginning of world government and law ***"

On December 8, 1953, President Eisenhower presented to the United Nations General Assembly, his atoms for peace plan and proposed, "The Governments principally involved *** to begin now and continue to make joint contributions from their stockpiles of normal uranium and fissionable material to an International Atomic Energy Agency. We would expect that such an agency would be set up under the aegis of the United Nations."

Such an agency could lead to a supreme world power which would mean world government. In view of the above quotations from the published writings of Mr. Cord Meyer and Mr. Clark Eichelberger, the suggestions of Mr. Eisenhower given on December 8, 1957, become especially interesting.

One result of our participation in such agency would be to circumvent the constitutional powers of Congress by using treaty law as authority for giving away half a billion dollars worth of enriched Uranium 235. Such fissionable material

is readily convertible into weapons materials.

While the atomic materials we are committed to contribute to the pool are intended for peaceful uses, it is now established that there is no clear dividing line between information or use of materials for peaceful uses and for the making of weapons. For example, a scientist associated with the Brookhaven National Laboratory stated before a congressional committee on March 8, 1956: "You cannot distinguish military from peacetime considerations when it is a matter of high-powered reactor producing plutonium." Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer has said: "The manufacture of atomic energy for peace, in any plants that I have heard discussed, would make material latently, which could be used for war."

Perhaps the most disturbing factor in the present situation is that any nation which belongs to the United Nations or a specialized agency thereof, can qualify as a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency, provided it is approved for membership by a majority of the governing bodies of the agency, the General Conference and the Governing Board. Thus, Red China needs only a majority vote of these two groups to be admitted to membership, and, of course, our atomic materials can be sent to the Soviet Union itself, and to the captive nations Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Rumania and Poland. Moreover, the United States is obligated under the treaty, if so directed, to deliver atomic materials directly to these countries.

Ratification of a Statute of the International Atomic Energy Agency as a treaty would be perhaps the gravest step the United States has taken away from sovereignty and self-preservation, along the road of internationalism and world government.

Sincerely,

MARY BARCLAY ERB
Mrs. Ray L. Erb.

STATEMENT OF MRS. AGNES WATERS, ONLY WOMAN CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AGAINST EXECUTIVE I, 85TH CONGRESS, 1ST SESSION, MAY 15, 1957

Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, I appear here against the Senate ratification of the Statute of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and I ask that it be not ratified by the United States Senate on the grounds that it is a threat to the security of the people of the United States of America.

I also oppose ratification on the grounds that the control of and use of our American property by this statute passes to foreign hands-which you have no legal right to give-and these foreign hands are very likely to become enemy hands holding and controlling vital American secrets and materials such as this statute mentions; namely, "Special fissionable material," which means plutonium 239, uranium 233, etc., all of which are pertinent to the manufacture of our atomic bombs.

I also object to this arrangement or statute, on the grounds that it is to be under the control of the "Red" "United Nations" with 6 Russian votes to 1 vote in the United States delegation, and whose U. N. Security Council is staffed by Soviets. With the Soviet, Arkady A. Sobelof, as Minister of War and Information at the U. N. Headquarters in New York.

I also wish to call to the attention of the Senate the fact that I objected to the Senate ratification of the appointment by President Truman, of Lewis L. Strauss to the Atomic Energy Commission many years ago, and I understand that he is the principle witness in support of ratification of this statute, and I wish to reaffirm the objections I originally made to his appointment to the Commission. I ask that this statute or treaty be killed.