Senator BRIDGES. Mr. Chairman, I have known Charlie Brewton for many years, and my contacts with him have led me to have a high respect for him. I think he can do a good job in this particular assignment to which he has been appointed.

I would like to ask Mr. Brewton if he would just give us for a minute his conception of the job of Assistant Director of Resources and Production in the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization.

We hear so much controversy over civil defense and mobilization today. Just how, in taking over, would you attend to that job; what is your idea about it?

STATEMENT OF CHARLES S. BREWTON, NOMINEE TO BE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF CIVIL AND DEFENSE MOBILIZATION

Mr. BREWTON. Senator, I was preceded here by the Chief of Naval Operations-nominate, who made an impressive statement concerning the perilous situation in which this Nation finds itself today in the context of the dangers that are in the world. Admiral Anderson called for vigilance and determination with respect to our purely military preparedness and mobilization capabilities.

I think that I might best explain the character of responsibilities which I will be expected to help guide if I contrast the responsibilities of my office to be, with your pleasure, with the strict military planning and operations to which Admiral Anderson referred.

The operations of the Resources and Production Division of the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, concern themselves with the nonmilitary phases of preparedness and mobilization planning and the capacity of the Nation to mobilize under varying degrees of danger.

They concern themselves with human and material resources, with stockpiling, with manpower, with plant capacity, both in being and potential, with communications and transportation media, with food and water resources, with fuel and energy resources, and other components in the broad context of nonmilitary preparedness and mobilization planning.

It is largely a policymaking office, not to any large degree an administering or operating office.

The policies are delegated, by and large, to existing Government agencies for administration and operation.

I hope you consider that this responds sufficiently to your question. Senator BRIDGES. Yes, I think it does.

Mr. BREWTON. Thank you.

Chairman RUSSELL. Any further questions?

Senator SYMINGTON. First, I would like to say the fact that Mr. Brewton is a first cousin of my old and good friend Bob Jones is conclusive with me, although I would have been for this nomination despite that situation. [Laughter.]

Secondly, I would like to thank Charlie Brewton for all his courtesies extend to me during all the years I have been in the Senate. I think this is an able and good appointment.

I would like to pursue the questioning of the Senator from New Hampshire. Are you in charge of the stockpile in the job you are going to take?

Mr. BREWTON. I shall have responsibility for certain policies and determinations with respect to the stockpile; yes, sir; subject, of course, to the Director of the Office.

Senator SYMINGTON. Have you looked at the figures which show that now we have a good many billion dollars more of metals, minerals, and materials than any expert believes we need?

Mr. BREWTON. I have observed that there is a considerable stockpile, the details of which I am not entirely familiar with yet.

Senator SYMINGTON. Do you see any reason why, as far as you have gone so far, and I say this especially in that we have continued to buy over recent years much of this material, even though the military and all other people in the Government felt we already had too much, do you see any reason why these figures and facts should continue to be classified from the American people?

Mr. BREWTON. Senator, I have read quite a number of hearings and reports since my nomination came to the Senate, in endeavoring to familiarize myself as best I could in this brief period with the responsibilities of this office.

I see quite a number of figures and statistics on stockpiling and the character of materials which are in the stockpile. I do not know whether those facts and figures which I have seen in many places, perchance, contain any classified material. I would not be prepared at the moment to prejudge whether or not those figures or the character of materials or the quantities should be classified.

Senator SYMINGTON. Will you take a look at the map and discuss it with Mr. Ellis, and then submit a written report of what your opinion is to this committee?

Mr. BREWTON. I should be pleased to do so.

Senator SYMINGTON. For some reason the American people are not told about the stockpiles of metals, minerals, materials and machine tools, but they are always told about the stockpile of agricultural products.

In my opinion, if we were in a general war, we would need much of the agricultural stockpile which, nevertheless, is many billions of dollars less in total value than the stockpile over which you will assume authority. Nevertheless, we continue to look, for some reason, with pride at the metals, minerals, materials and machine-tool stockpile, and for some reason view with apprehension the agricultural stockpile, which, I think, we would need more in case we were in trouble than possibly anything except medical supplies from the standpoint of civil defense and civil defense mobilization.

So if you would let this committee know why it is that (a) we continue to classify these figures, and (b) we continue to buy quantities of this merchandise despite the fact everybody agrees we already have too much in items that I am thinking of, I would appreciate it.

Mr. BREWTON. I shall be pleased to give earnest attention to your request, and will be responsive to it.

Senator SYMINGTON. Thank you, Mr. Brewton.

Mr. Chairman, I have no further questions.

Chairman RUSSELL. Any further comments? Senator Smith. Senator SMITH. Mr. Chairman, in my opinion, Mr. Brewton has one of the most outstanding records, and is one of the most outstanding men who have ever served on Capitol Hill. He is a man of intel

ligence, integrity and dedication, and the executive branch makes great gains in obtaining him. The legislative branch is losing a great man. Chairman RUSSELL. Senator Thurmond.

Senator THURMOND. Mr. Chairman, I have known Charlie Brewton since coming to the Senate, and he has impressed me as being a competent man of character, a man who is dedicated to duty, and it is my opinion that he will fulfill well the trust that has been reposed in him. Senator ERVIN. Mr. Chairman, even the derogatory information revealed by Congressman Bob Jones has not detracted in the slightest degree from my conviction that the nominee is exceedingly well-qualified for the post to which he has been appointed. [Laughter] Senator JACKSON. Mr. Chairman?

Chairman RUSSELL. Senator Jackson.

Senator JACKSON. I want to congratulate Charlie Brewton. Like many of us at the table here I have known him since I have come to the Senate. He is a conscientous and dedicated public servant, and I know he will do a good job.

Chairman RUSSELL. If there is no further comments, Mr. Brewton, we are glad to have had you. We will be looking forward to some association with you in the future in the work of this committee and that of your new responsibilties.

Mr. BREWTON. I am exceedingly grateful to you, Mr. Chairman, and to each member of this committee for your courtesies.

(The nomination of Mr. Brewton was subsequently approved by the committee in executive session and confirmed by the Senate on June 29, 1961.)

H.R. 5490

Chairman RUSSELL. Before the committee resolves itself into executive session, there are two bills upon which it is desirable to receive testimony in open session. The first of these is H.R. 5490, which would make several amendments to the laws relating to the 6-month training program and Reserve participation.

(The bill referred to, H.R. 5490, follows:)

[H.R. 5490, 87th Cong., 1st sess.].

AN ACT To provide for more effective participation in the reserve components of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 6 of the Universal Military Training and Service Act, as amended (50 U.S.C. App. 456), is amended(1) by amending subsection (c) (2) (B) to read as follows:

"(B) Any person who after attaining the age of eighteen years and six months but prior to attaining the age of twenty-six years and prior to the issuance of orders for him to report for induction, enlists or accepts appointment in an organized unit of the National Guard shall be deferred from training and service under this title so long as he continues to serve satisfactorily as a member of such organized unit. No such person who has completed eight years of satisfactory service as a member of an organized unit of the National Guard, and who during such service has performed active duty for training with an armed force for not less than three consecutive months, shall be liable for induction for training and service under this Act, except after a declaration of war or national emergency made by the Congress."; and (2) by striking out the words "in such unit" in the seventh and eighth sentences of subsection (d) (1) and amending the fifth and sixth sentences of that subsection to read as follows: "If, at the time of, or subsequent to, such appointment, the armed force in which such person is commissioned 72385-61-8

does not require his service on active duty in fulfillment of the obligation undertaken by him in compliance with clause (B) of the first sentence of this paragraph, such person shall be ordered to active duty for training with such armed force in the grade in which he was commissioned for a period of active duty for training of not less than three months or more than six months (not including duty performed under section 270 (a) of title 10, United States Code), as determined by the Secretary of the military department concerned to be necessary to qualify such person for a mobilization assignment. Upon being commissioned and assigned to a reserve component, such person shall be required to serve therein, or in a reserve component of any other armed force in which he is later appointed, until the eighth anniversary of the receipt of such commission pursuant to the provisions of this section".

SEC. 2. Section 262(b)(3) of the Armed Forces Reserve Act of 1952 (50 U.S.C. 1013 (b) (3)) is amended by striking out the words "eighteen years and six months" and inserting the words "twenty-six years" in place thereof.

SEC. 3. Section 270 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding the following new subsection at the end thereof:

"(c) Any person who becomes a member of the Army National Guard of the United States or the Air National Guard of the United States after the enactment of this subsection and who fails in any year to perform satisfactorily the training duty prescribed by or under law for members of the Army National Guard or the Air National Guard, as the case may be, as determined by the Secretary concerned, may, upon the request of the Governor of the State or territory, Puerto Rico, or the Canal Zone, or the commanding general of the District of Columbia National Guard, whichever is concerned, be ordered, without his consent, to perform additional active duty for training for not more than forty-five days. A member ordered to active duty under this subsection shall be ordered to duty as a Reserve of the Army or as a Reserve of the Air Force, as the case may be."

SEC. 4. Section 651(a) of title 10, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:

"(a) Each male person who, after August 9, 1955, becomes a member of an armed force before his twenty-sixth birthday, other than a person enlisted under section 1013 of title 50 or deferred under the next to the last sentence of section 456 (d) (1) of title 50, appendix, shall serve in the armed forces for a total of six years. However, such a person who, after the effective date of this amended subsection, becomes deferred under section 456 (c) (2) (A) or (B) of title 50, appendix, shall serve in the armed forces for a total of eight years. Any person covered by this subsection may be sooner discharged because of personal hardship under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense or, if he is a member of the Coast Guard while it is not operating as a service in the Navy, by the Secretary of the Treasury. Any part of such service that is not active duty or is active duty for training shall be performed in a reserve component." SEC. 5. Section 3261 of title 10, United States Code, is amended

(1) by striking out the designation “(b)” in subsection (a) and inserting the designation "(c)" in place thereof; and

(2) by redesignating subsection (b) as subsection "(c)" and inserting the following new subsection (b):

"(b) Under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Army, a person who enlists or reenlists in the Army National Guard, or whose term of enlistment or reenlistment in the Army National Guard is extended, shall be concurrently enlisted or reenlisted, or his term of enlistment or reenlistment shall be concurrently extended, as the case may be, as a Reserve of the Army for service in the Army National Guard of the United States."

SEC. 6. Section 8261 of title 10, United States Code, is amended

(1) by striking out the designation "(b)" in subsection (a) and inserting the designation "(c)" in place thereof; and

(2) by redesignating subsection (b) as subsection "(c)" and inserting the following new subsection (b):

"(b) Under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Air Force, a person who enlists or reenlists in the Air National Guard, or whose term of enlistment or reenlistment in the Air National Guard is extended, shall be concurrently enlisted or reenlisted, or his term of enlistment or reenlistment shall be concurrently extended, as the case may be, as a Reserve of the Air Force for service in the Air National Guard of the United States."

SEC. 7. Title 32, United States Code, is amended as follows:

(1) Section 302 is amended to read as follows:

"S302. Enlistments, reenlistments, and extensions

"(a) Under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary concerned, original enlistments in the National Guard may be accepted for—

"(1) any specified term, not less than three years, for persons who have not served in an armed force; or

"(2) any specified term, not less than one year, for persons who have served in any armed force.

"(b) Under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary concerned, reenlistment in the National Guard may be accepted for any specified period, or, if the person last served in one of the highest five enlisted grades, for an unspecified period.

"(c) Enlistments or reenlistments in the National Guard may be extended"(1) under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary concerned, at the request of the member, for any period not less than six months; or

"(2) by proclamation of the President, if Congress declares an emergency, until six months after termination of that emergency."

(2) The analysis of chapter 3 is amended by striking out the following item: "302. Enlistments."

and inserting the following item in place thereof:

"302. Enlistments, reenlistments, and extensions."

SEC. 8. The amendments made by sections 5, 6, 7, and 8 of this Act do not affect any enlistment, reenlistment, or appointment entered into or made before the effective date of this Act.

SEC. 9. Section 29 (a) of the Act of August 10, 1956, chapter 1041, as amended (5 U.S.C. 30r), is amended

(1) by striking out the words "fiscal year" wherevery they appear therein and inserting the words "calendar year" in place thereof; and

(2) by inserting the following new sentence immediately after the first sentence thereof: "However, all or any part of such leave which is not used by the officer or employee during the calendar year in which it accrues may be used by him during the first six months of the next calendar year." Passed the House of Representatives May 9, 1961. Attest:

RALPH R. ROBERTS, Clerk.

Chairman RUSSELL. Section 9 of the bill proposes to revert to a calendar year basis for computing the 15 days of annual leave with pay to which Federal employees are entitled for the purpose of performing active duty for training.

Until 1960 this leave was credited on a calendar-year basis and the change to a fiscal-year basis has created some problems that will be discussed this morning.

At this time, the Chair merely wishes to note that our committee colleague, Senator Smith, has introduced a separate bill to accomplish the same purpose, S. 1446.

The departmental witnesses on this bill are Maj. Gen. C. G. Dodge, Assistant Army Chief of Staff for Reserve Components, and Maj. Gen. W. P. Wilson, Deputy Chief of the National Guard Bureau.

Very well, General Dodge, give us as briefly as possible the views of the Department.