Mr. President. about the pending bill taking something away from Cuba. It is true that under the proposed quota system the additions to the Puerto Rican and Virgin Islands quotas. as well as those to the fullduty countries. will come out of the allotment that ordinarily would have gone to Cuba. but it must be remembered that the special treatment afforded Cuba in the 1948 Sugar Act. at the expense of the domestic producers as well as the fullduty countries. was a 1Surely temporary measure designed to assist the Cuban industry in adjusting itself during the years immediately following World War II. There was never any intention on the part of Congress in enacting the 1948 Sugar Act to perpetuate these special advantages to the Cubans. The House Agriculture Committee. in its report accompanying the 1948 Sugar Act. emphasized that the new act was designed to meet problems of the temporary postwar transition period and was not to be regarded as the establishment of longtime national sugar policy.
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