Speech #880023592

I am today introducing a bill which I believe will tighten travel restrictions as they relate to persons. particularly U.S. citizens. who travel to or interrupt their journeys in transit through any country with which the United States does not maintain diplomatic relations. making this specifically a crime when the President of the United States has declared that such travel should be prohibited in the best interests of the United States. This latter limitation obviously would make it applicable to Cuba and would perhaps also help bring about clarification of rules and regulations relating to other countries whose governments we do not recognize. The further purpose of this bill is hopefully to get this general issue before the Immigration and Naturalization Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee so that amendments to the basic law can be considered while at the same time House UnAmerican Activities Committee and the Senate Internal Security Committee consider the possible subversive impact of these visits within this country. I am also placing in the RECORD for the first time the list of the number of people who have gone to Cuba from other countries during this same 6month period in 1962. This list indicates the extent to which countries in the Americas permit the flow of people. numbers of them known subversives. to Cuba. and. again.