COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY JAMES O. EASTLAND, Mississippi, Chairman OLIN D. JOHNSTON, South Carolina EDWARD M. KENNEDY, Massachusetts QUENTIN N. BURDICK, North Dakota EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN, Illinois ROMAN L. HRUSKA, Nebraska KENNETH B. KEATING, New York HIRAM L. FONG, Hawaii HUGH SCOTT, Pennsylvania SUBCOMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE INTERNAL SECURITY ACT AND OTHER INTERNAL SECURITY LAWS SOVIET POLITICAL AGREEMENTS AND RESULTS SUPPLEMENT NO. 1 In 1955, the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee published a summary review of Soviet political agreements with other nations since the Communists gained power in Russia in 1917. In 1959, the 110-page printed document was brought up to date. Since the United States is again engaged in considering a treaty relationship with the Soviet Union, the subcommittee has sought to bring its study up to date for the information of the Senate with a brief citation and analysis of fundamental agreements the Soviet Union concluded in the past 4 years. Three of the agreements center on the key crisis areas in international affairs in recent years; namely, Berlin, Laos, and Cuba. Involved in all instances was the question of war and peace. And most important for the concern of the Senate, these agreements, have in some respects been violated by the Soviet Union. Owing to the complexity of the Laotian problem, it was necessary to provide a fuller explanation than on the others. The study also developed that the Soviets have also violated treaties concluded with the Chinese Communists, demonstrating thereby the extent to which political expediency determines the durability of the pledged Soviet word. On February 26, 1963, the People's Daily, an official organ of the Chinese regime, accused the Soviet Union of applying "economic and political pressure" against China after the Chinese had refused to yield to Moscow on doctrinal matters disputed at the meeting of world Communist leaders in Bucharest in August 1960. The editorial stated: After the Bucharest meeting, some comrades [that is, the Russians] who had attacked the CCP lost no time in taking a series of grave steps applying economic and political pressure against China. Disregarding international practice, they perfidiously and unilaterally tore up agreements and contracts they had concluded with a fraternal country. Those agreements and contracts are to be counted, not in twos or threes or in scores, but in hundreds. These malicious acts, which extended ideological differences to state relations, were out-and-out violations of proletarian internationalism and of the principles guiding relations among fraternal socialist countries as set forth in the Moscow declaration. The subcommittee acknowledges the invaluable assistance of Mr. Joseph G. Whelan, analyst in Soviet and Eastern European Affairs of the Legislative Reference Service of the Library of Congress. 1 |