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In the “all other category are other Latin American *ugar-producing nations which, unlike Cuba, must pay full duty on the sugar they ship to the United States. Mexico and Peru, for example. They would like to ship us more sugar, and there are other sugar producers, such as Brazil and El Salvador, which have been given no quotas under our present sugar law.
In 1947, when I had been in the Congress less than a year, I was much impressed by an address which that late great Virginia legislator, John W. Flannagan, made on the floor of the House when sugar legislation was under debate. Mr. Flannagan, in a masterful analysis, pointed out that the Congress would be voting to tack hundreds of millions of dollars onto the Nation’s sugar bill by this legislative rigging of the dome-uu sugar market. His words went unheeded, and the housewife and commercial user of sugar in thicountry have continued to pnv tw to three cents above the world' price for each pound of the sweet tier.
If it is determined that our national interest dictates a subsidization of Castro's Cuba, should we not now consider labeling it frankly as a foreign aid grant, rather than hiding it in a rigged sugar price stiucture, to the continuing economic disadrai tage of our own consumers ?
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