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Show fie Senator Reports I To The People f Senator Arthur V. Watkins I v; " May 8, 1951, the Citizens . .ittee for the Hoover Resubmitted Re-submitted 51 new reor-' reor-' tlon plans to the presi-t' presi-t' : Up to now, only one of ' 51 suggestions has been ded to the Congress by president with a request .Vislative action. This one V plan to reorganize the t Congress promptly ap--i the plan because of the ";rs of a Congressional 5 .ittee involving scandalous tior.s regarding its offt-.' offt-.' nd its operation. bipartisan Hoover Com-1 Com-1 on Federal Reorganiza-. Reorganiza-. efficiency and Economy eated by the Republican -Congress (1947-48). The V ission recommended re-j re-j . which would have saved nerican taxpayer an esti-1!. esti-1!. $5,400,000,000 a year. lggested reforms were :Ton what was probaply the .-'horough study of govern- j : -ever made and they were y free of partisan poli-iiYet poli-iiYet to date only 50 of immission's money-saving jrsonnel reducing recom-tions recom-tions have been adopted, importance of the sav- t.hich can be derived from ii into effect the Hoover ission reports can be ap- I ;ed when it is realized !5jxt year more than 90 bil-Dllars bil-Dllars will be taken from ickets of the American I lifer. Compare this with iVi billion dollars taken from the American taxpayer at the peak of World War II and the 16 billion dollars in 1940. Policy Needed The Korean fighting is now in its 16th month, with no end in sight. The tragedy of all the maiming and killing which has been going on in Korea is in the fact that our fighting forces in the field know as little as we do here at home as to the ultimate ulti-mate objective. Aggression has been halted and we are punishing punish-ing the aggressor by slaughtering slaughter-ing his forces at a rate which turns the stomach. To date, however, the administration leadership has not taken the trouble to tell the American people just what our ultimate goal is in Korea. I think the time has come for the United States to adopt a firm and realistic real-istic Korea policy. Siassen Testifies The press has been filled recently re-cently with reports of the testimony testi-mony of former Gov. Harold Stassen before the Internal Security Se-curity Subcommittee of the Judiciary, Ju-diciary, of which I am a member. mem-ber. This committee is investigating investi-gating violations of security laws and regulations in an endeavor en-deavor to prepare more effective effec-tive legislative proposals in 1 connection with the internal and external security of the United States. Gov. Stassen has also been reported re-ported as appearing before the ' Senate Foreign Relations Com- mittee in connection with the I hearings on the nomination of i Phillip Jessup, United States Ambassador-at-large, to the post of United States delegate to the i United Nations. This post is a highly sensitive one. Whoever holds it will be charged with the responsibility of dealing with Red Russian agents and formulating United States foreign for-eign policy in connection with our responsibilities as a member mem-ber of the United Nations. The press has reported that the State Department first denied de-nied Mr. Stassen's statements that a top secret meeting was held to discuss a proposal to cut off aid to Nationalist China. Mr. Stassen said that Senator Vandenberg had told him of the meeting and that the Senator's Diary would confirm his statements. state-ments. Excerpts from the diary did prove that such a meeting was held and that Vandenberg opposed such a move. I was particularly impressed with Mr. Stassen's sincerity and with the fact that he had verbatim ver-batim transcripts of his own' .statement, furnshed at his insistence in-sistence by the State Department, Depart-ment, as well as his own pen ciled notes made at the time of the statements, of others in attendance. |