Burma is a neutralist socialist country. Dr. Gordon Seagrave is the Burma Surgeon. He has been this for forty years, and he wants a hospital. So a committee has been formed to raise money for the hospital. The honorary chairman is President Kennedy. American sponsors include Chester Bowles, Senator Joseph Clark, William Clayton, Harlan Cleveland, Milton Eisenhower, Paul Hoffman, Chet Huntley, Walter Lippmann, Ed Murrow, Walter Reuther, Dean Rusk, Arthur Schlesinger, Harry Truman, Earl Warren and Eleanor Roosevelt. The same crowd backs our Katanga policy. Idea. Why not, gentlemen, arrange to blow up one less hospital in Katanga, and transport it to Burma? You can put us down as sponsors.
When President Kennedy appointed Gerald Brown to the National Labor Relations Board last year, he tilted the balance of the Board far toward laborism, which the Board has demonstrated in a succession of startlingly insouciant reversals of its own earlier decisions. The Board no longer applies the law: it is, as Mr. Brown recently boasted, “unquestionably a policy-making body,” and the decisions of the Board in the past year have betrayed a policy of intolerable intrusion into the rights of individual workers and the rights of management to manage. But when Congress creates an agent to administer a law created by Congress, the right to create law (read: policy) remains exclusively in Congress. This basic fact of constitutional government was duly noted on the floor of the House of Representatives in mid-April, when two congressmen rose to assail the NLRB with unimpeachable arguments. The congressmen were Messrs. Landrum and Griffin, who have given their names to quite a chunk of labor legislation in the past—as they had better do again, and soon, if Congress is to retain any legislative powers in this area.
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