MINUTES TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1966 U.S. SENATE, COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS, Washington, DC. The committee continued in executive session at 10:40 a.m. in room 4221, NSOB. · Present: Senator Sparkman (presiding), Senators Clark and McCarthy. Senator Clark made a brief statement on S. 3101, a bill to establish a United States Committee on Human Rights. The routine Foreign Service List of May 27, 1966, and the following nominations were ordered reported, without objection: James M. Nabrit, Jr., to be the Deputy Representative of the United States to the United Nations with the rank and status of Ambassador, and Deputy Representative in the Security Council; Walter P. McConaughy, to be Ambassador to China; Delmar R. Carlson to be Ambassador to Guyana; Alfred M. Gruenter, Troy V. Post, and Stephen J. Wright, to be members of the General Advisory Committee of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. [The committee adjourned at 10:55 a.m.] (848) MINUTES WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1966 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON AMERICAN REPUBLICS AFFAIRS OF THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS, The Subcommittee on American Republics Affairs met in executive session at 4:15 p.m. in room S-116, Capitol. Present: Senator Fulbright (Chairman of the full Committee, presiding), and Senator Clark. Lincoln Gordon, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs; accompanied by David Bronheim, Deputy United States Coordinator, Alliance for Progress, appeared to discuss the proposed revision of the OAS Charter. [The subcommittee adjourned at 4:30 p.m.] (849) MINUTES THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1966 U.S. SENATE, COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS, Washington, DC. The committee met in executive session at 9:50 a.m. in room S-116, Capitol. Present: Chairman Fulbright, and Senators Sparkman, Morse, Gore, Lausche, Church, Symington, Clark, Pell, McCarthy, McGee, Hickenlooper, Aiken and Carlson. To continue markup on S. 2861, the Military Aid bill. An original bill ordered reported, 17-1 (S. 3583). Executive H, 89/1, Amendments to articles 17 and 18 of the Convention of the Intergovernmental Maritime Consultative Organization, was ordered reported, without objection. Executive D, 89/2, Protocol to Mexican Broadcasting was ordered reported, without objection. Executive B, 89/2, and Executive C, 89/2, Tax protocols with the Netherlands and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (hearings had been held on both by the Tax Convention Subcommittee and ordered reported to the full Committee), were ordered reported. A resolution authorizing the appointment of a delegation to attend a meeting of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association was ordered reported (S. Res. 276.) Senator Clark asked for the approval of S. 3101, to establish a United States Committee on Human Rights. The Committee decided it wanted to find out more about it before voting. Short discussion on the CIA resolution. H.R. 11227, to authorize the Hon. Eugene J. Keogh, to accept the award of the order of Isabella the Catholic, was ordered reported. [The committee adjourned at 12:35 p.m.] (850) THE SITUATION IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC [EDITOR'S NOTE.-In April 1965, a rebellion broke out against the military government of the Dominican Republic. Fearing that Communists were behind the rebellion, President Johnson ordered 20,000 American troops to the island. A year later, 6,800 American troops remained as part of the 8,200-man Organization of American States Inter-American Peace Force. On the first anniversary of the uprising, rallies were held in the Dominican Republic to denounce the continued American presence. On April 28, 1966, U.S. troops fired into a crowd of demonstrators in Santo Domingo, wounding six people. The government of provisional president Hector GarciaGodoy announced that the Dominican police would take over many of the positions previously held by the Inter-American force. [In the election held on June 1, Joaquin Balaguer, candidate of the Reformista Party was elected president, defeating Juan Bosch, candidate of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (DRP). On June 24, the Council of the Organization of American States unanimously approved a resolution to withdraw the Inter-American forces from the Dominican Republic.] TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1966 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON AMERICAN REPUBLICS AFFAIRS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 3 p.m., in S-116, the Capitol, Senator Wayne Morse (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Senators Morse (presiding), and Aiken. Also present: Senators Clark and McGee. Mr. Marcy, Mr. Kuhl, and Mr. Holt, of the committee staff. Ambassador Bunker, we are very pleased to have you before us this afternoon, being our United States Representative on the Council of the Organization of American States for the past 13 months. Let the record show that because of that ambassadorial appointment it has not been possible for Ambassador Bunker to meet with the Foreign Relations Committee at an earlier date. We are delighted you can meet with us this afternoon and give us the benefit of your experience and observations for I want to say although I say I speak for myself, I know I speak for the committee, I know no one in the Foreign Service of the United States that enjoys a greater confidence in this committee than you do, sir. If you have an introductory statement, we will be glad to hear it, although it would be my suggestion that I will let you make whatever introductory statement you may care to that you proceed in your own way to brief us on the problems in the Dominican Republic as you have experienced them and as you see them, after which I will ask my colleagues to ask whatever questions they care to. STATEMENT OF THE HON. ELLSWORTH BUNKER, U.S. REP. RESENTATIVE TO COUNCIL OF OAS ACCOMPANIED BY: JOHN H. CRIMMINS, NOMINEE FOR AMBASSADOR TO DOMIN. ICAN REPUBLIC; AND WARD P. ALLEN, BUREAU OF INTERAMERICAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF STATE Mr. BUNKER. Thank you very much, Senator Morse. I am very happy to be here. As you say, I have been in the Dominican Republic almost constantly for the last 13 months and haven't had a chance to appear before this distinguished committee. Senator AIKEN. I expect after 13 months even the Senate Foreign Relations Committee looks good. [Laughter] Mr. BUNKER. It looks wonderful, George. Senator Morse, my role in the Dominican Republic after the month of May which I spent here involved in meetings of the foreign ministers which adopted a number of resolutions having to do with the crisis, notably a resolution appointing a special committee first to go there and attempting to secure a cease-fire and setup an international security zone; secondly, the resolution establishing the Inter-American Peace Force; and, third, a resolution on June 2 setting up the ad hoc committee. I went there on June 3, with my colleagues, the Ambassador of Brazil, Ambassador Penna Marinhu, and the Ambassador to Salvador, Ambassador Duenas. We immediately began a very intensive exploration to try to determine the atmosphere, the possibilities of compromise, the possibilities of getting two sides together. We talked with a great number and variety of people from all walks of life, business people, professional people, students, workers, farmers from all parts of the country. And after about 15 days of this kind of exploration we made what we then called a declaration to the Dominican people, making a proposal for a peaceful settlement of the solution. ESTABLISHING A PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT At that time, we proposed pretty much what came out eventually; that is, elections in 9 months, electoral assistance from the Organization of American States, general amnesty, formation of a provisional government, technical and economic assistance through the Organization of American States, the drafting of an institutional act by distinguished Dominican jurists as the basis of the authority of the provisional government, and a constituent assembly within 6 months after the elected government would take office. I may say that we were never able to get the two sides to meet together. There was so much bitterness and so much hatred and so much rancor that we had to negotiate with each side separately, with the constitutionalists on one hand headed by Colonel [Franciso] Caamano [Dono] and the government of National Reconstruction headed by General [Antonio] Imbert [Barreras]. On June 23, the Constitutionalist government agreed in principle with the committee's proposal except that they said that the Institutional Act should be based on the 1963 constitution which had been the constitution of the Bosch government. The Government of National Reconstruction made a counterproposal saying they were the government, and that this could be expanded in any way that we deemed advisable or an advisory |