COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS UNITED STATES SENATE EIGHTY-FOURTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON S. Res. 116 FAVORING DISCUSSION AT THE COMING GENEVA UNDER COMMUNIST CONTROL 55-61423 JUNE 21, 1955 Printed for the use of the Committee on Foreign Relations STATUS OF NATIONS UNDER COMMUNIST CONTROL TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1955 UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS, Washington, D. C. The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 3:05 p. m., in the Committee Room, Capitol Building, Senator Theodore Francis Green presiding. Present: Senators Green, Fulbright, Sparkman, Mansfield, Barkley, Morse, Wiley, Hickenlooper, Langer, Knowland, and Capehart. Also present: Senator Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas. Senator GREEN. The meeting will please come to order. This special meeting of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is called because it has before it for consideration Senate Resolution 116, submitted by Senator McCarthy yesterday afternoon. (The resolution, S. Res. 116, is as follows:) [S. Res. 116, 84th Cong., 1st sess.] RESOLUTION Whereas under the Constitution of the United States, the Congress and more particularly the Senate, has concurrent responsibility with the executive branch for the formulation of the international policies of the United States; and Whereas the safety, peace, and independence of the United States are seriously threatened by the aggressive world Communist movement under the leadership of the Soviet Union; and Whereas the United States is pledged to seek the freedom of the millions of people who have already been enslaved by the world Communist movement; and Whereas the safety, peace, and, independence of the United States can never be permanently secured, nor the goal of the United States to obtain the freedom of oppressed peoples realized, so long as certain areas of the world remain under Communist control; namely, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Rumania, Albania, Eastern Germany, Northern Korea, Northern Indochina, China, and the Soviet Union; and Whereas the President has determined to confer with the heads of state of the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and France at Geneva, Switzerland, on July 18, 1955, with the objective of relieving world tensions and thus of attempting to make more secure the safety, peace, and independence of the United States; and Whereas the government of the Soviet Union announced on June 13, 1955, and on several occasions prior thereto, that the subject of areas under Communist control would not be discussed by the Soviet Union at said conference between the heads of state; and Whereas failure to discuss said areas under Communist control at said Geneva meeting implies de jure recognition of Communist domination of said areas, and thus the establishment of a permanent threat to the safety, peace, and independence of the United States; and Whereas the Secretary of State is meeting with the Foreign Ministers of the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and France beginning June 20, 1955, at San Francisco, reportedly to discuss, inter alia, an agenda for the conference between the heads of state; Now, therefore, be it 1 |