Speech #820170415

I think it is a shame that they call upon us to furnish 90 percent of the combat troops in Korea after we have done so much for them. I was astonished in talking with a representative of the Pentagon the other night. He said. "Congressman. the reason the western democracies are not sending any combat troops to Korea is because they need their ablebodied men to build up their wartorn countries." I emphatically replied to him. "If through some miracle tonight the immigration restrictions were taken off of the books of the United States and Canada and Australia and South American countries. why. those same ablebodied men over there that they say are needed for wartorn countries would be flocking over here by the millions. and they would be aided and assisted and encouraged and given th finances to do so by their own countries." We hear about young men being conscripted off the farms in the United States and sent to Europe to defend them over there and then ablebodied men in Western Europe who should be in uniform defending themselves come over here as DPs and take the places on the farms of these youngsters who have been conscripted. Maybe that makes sense to some people. but it does not to LEO ALLEN. Now. in addition to those countries of Western Europe furnishing some of these troops.