National Reports

...They were frightened by Stevenson's speech two years ago in Des Moines, in which he confessed that he did not consider high parity a perfect solution to the farm problem...

...Communities with less than that number may elect one representative at least every 10 years...

...The record of falling prices under Eisenhower has given them an opportunity which may not come again, and they are determined to cash in...

...Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., enshrined in a weatherproof bronze case, guarded by sentries, the United States Constitution reposes in the National Archives Building...

...Most Republicans are hoping that a decision by Eisenhower to run again will weld their party together, but even this may not be enough...

...Kefauver was popular enough in 1952 to score 20,000 write-in votes against Humphrey's favorite-son candidacy...

...The Eisenhower group, led by Governor Lane Dwinell, indicates that it will continue to act as a unit, presumably to throw its strength at the convention to a candidate favored by the Eisenhower wing...

...Applauding Senator Eastland were Virginia Governor William H. Tuck...

...The Memphis caucus fused into one movement all the local anti-Court, anti-Constitution groups that had sprung up in the past three years...

...Defeat means death, the death of Southern culture and our aspirations as an Anglo-Saxon people...

...Both Minnesotans are convinced that Democratic hopes of victory lie in a switch in the farm vote...

...The Memphis group chose as its interim chairman and coordinator John U. Barr, New Orleans industrialist and NAM hierarch...

...There was no mention of the late Reverend George Lee, murdered by still unapprehended assassins, or of George Courts, NAACP leader shot and left to die last Thanksgiving after he had urged Negroes to participate in elections...

...Senator Hubert H. Humphrey and Governor Orville Freeman...

...it is small wonder that civil-rights organizations worry about Communist infiltration thrusts...

...citizens...

...He did not receive a terribly enthusiastic reception, however...

...The real problem is not so much opposition to Stevenson as a general reluctance to get excited so early in the campaign...

...Upsets Unlikely in New Hampshire Vote By Courtney Sheldon Concord, N.H...

...again, no names of people or places...

...Meanwhile, a December 5 Internal Revenue Bureau order in Jackson, Mississippi barring its employes from joining White Citizens' Councils was rescinded apologetically on December 23...

...Eisenhower's popularity is now so widely acknowledged, it hardly seems possible that in 1952 his supporters were genuinely fearful that he did not have broad enough appeal to overcome the professional campaigning of Senator Robert A. Taft...

...During the Christmas holiday, some 35 men and women, headed by Senator Eastland, met secretly in a Memphis hotel to organize mass defiance of the supreme law of the land, as defined in unanimous judgments by the Supreme Court of the United States...

...In 1952 the calculations of every major candidate were rudely ignored by independent-minded voters in the nation's first Presidential primary in tiny New Hampshire...

...To its provisions elected officials, appointed officials, school teachers throughout the land must swear...

...The Vice President has offered no statement whatsoever...

...But protests to the Justice Department from the NAACP, labor and other libertarian organizations to apprehend those responsible for the Southern murders have all met with the same answer: "We're looking into our right to investigate...

...Meanwhile, the Republicans are not having an easy time of it in Minnesota...

...Their first step was to get from Stevenson a sure-fire commitment that, whatever his ideas about a permanent solution to the farm problem, he would stand for 90 per cent fixed parity as the immediate means of bolstering lagging farm incomes...

...When Senator Eastland investigates Communists, he meets his allies...

...Their oaths of office pledge them "to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States...

...but again no names...

...He has considerable support not only among the dissidents but within the ranks as well...

...On the Democratic side, the impact of Senator Kefauver's startling triumph in 1952 over former President Truman lingers on and impresses Kefauver opponents to the point where they are actually unwilling to risk challenging him in New Hampshire...

...For he and they would do equal damage to constitutional democracy, and to the image of America held by colonial peoples around the world...

...William Dunfey, president of the Young Democrats of New Hampshire, says that "if Stevenson had time to campaign throughout the state for three or four days, we are convinced he could carry the state...

...Warren Olney III, Assistant U.S...

...so far, he does not seem to have made any...

...Knowland was told, he would definitely receive a real trouncing...

...The President's first reference to events in the South spoke of "allegations" which "persist...

...he has never spoken the name of Emmett Till, George Lee or George Courts...

...At the same time, they are planning to whip up pre-primary enthusiasm by bringing Stevenson to Minnesota for a political hand-shaking and speech-making tour...

...With Eisenhower's status uncertain...

...the ability of the Humphrey-Freeman alliance to come through in the clutch...

...Their political machine was shattered by Freeman's victory...

...Georgia Governor S. Marvin Griffin and his predecessor, Herman Talmadge: U.S...

...Minnesota strategy is being directed by the two most powerful political figures in the stale...

...Stevenson himself has not helped very much...

...The unanticipated 1952 results subsequently have been attributed to the desire of voters for new faces and ideas...

...The Mississippi White Citizens' Councils, the Southern Patriots and motley other segregationists were merged into a single secret organization, called, ironically, the Federation for Constitutional Government...

...Senator Eastland declared that, in addition to defying the Supreme Court and the Constitution, "our organization will carry on its banner the slogan of free enterprise, and we will fight those organizations who attempt with much success to socialize industry and the great medical profession of this country...

...His appeal thus far has been almost strictly on issues—and here Stevenson has lost ground, if anything...

...Republican leaders have been even more reticent...

...This year—assuming there are no political earthquakes between now and March 13—it will be difficult for voters to express a contrary opinion even if they have one: Eisenhower Republicans and Kefauver Democrats have the Granite State's honors easily within grasp...

...His reluctance to embrace 90 per cent fixed parity as the solution to the farm problem, and his refusal to jeopardize Dixiecrat support by speaking out on the "new secession" in the South, have cooled even the lukewarm enthusiasm he once commanded...

...They are agreed, however, not to do so if Stevenson continues to wish to avoid a New Hampshire test...

...But Kefauver was bluntly warned that if he dared challenge Stevenson in Minnesota, he would have to depend for support on dissident politicians...

...in "some localities...

...In his State of the Union message last week, President Eisenhower asked Congress to create a bi-partisan commission to examine "allegations" that Negroes are being deprived of the right to vote and subjected to "unwarranted economic pressures...

...The conservative branch of the party, centering around Senator Styles Bridges, has been pushing for an early decision by the President...

...With charity for none, with malice toward all...

...They have behind them a well-oiled political machine which has grown in effectiveness during Freeman's first year in office...

...Stevenson Gets Support of Minnesota Democrats By Sam Romer Minneapolis Democrats here are hopeful that Minnesota voters, who gave the Eisenhower bandwagon a mighty shove toward the White House in 1952, will do the same for Adlai Stevenson this year...

...It also is significant that Henry Sullivan of Manchester, Democratic National Committeeman and a supporter of Kefauver in 1952, now is felt to be in the Stevenson camp...

...Their only real hope is that Freeman will make some serious mistakes...

...Neither group has major opposition...

...This strategy quite obviously has the support of Sherman Adams, former New Hampshire Governor and now assistant "President" to General Eisenhower...

...Senator J. Strom Thurmond, Dixiecrat Presidential candidate in 1948...

...The chances of such a commission coming into being, in the light of Southern filibusters, are slight, indeed, in an election year...

...For the most part, the amateurs who grabbed the Kefauver coattails in 1952 were not regular Democratic organization men...

...Last October, too, Stevenson warned his fellow-Democrats not to rely on "the old program" to meet the problem, although he added that high price supports are better than "no price supports and no farm aid...

...Two of the state's five Democratic Congressmen declined to take their places on the Stevenson ticket...

...Behind-the-scenes maneuvering by influential Southerners is apparent in the reticence of prominent Presidential candidates to discuss the Southern murders, boycotts and subversive groups...

...Bill of Rights Rally in New York last month, Averell Harriman referred to Southern violations of Constitutional rights...

...Estes Kefauver said he was "outraged" at what is happening to those who seek the right to vote...

...Rural or small-community delegates will control the convention and may balk at a new formula if it reduces their power in any way...

...There have been reports that anti-Semitic material was distributed at the founding meeting of Eastland's Federation...

...A JLC appeal to Eastland's committee to investigate the White Councils as a threat to the internal security of the United States remains unanswered...

...When this writer attempted to draw out Senator William Knowland on civil rights at an NAM press conference, the Senator took his own version of the Fifth Amendment...

...His personality does not arouse the kind of personal dedication so needed among ward workers...

...Any change in this formula would require a grouping of towns into combined election districts...

...Even so, Kefauver may enter the primaries...

...Nor was there any regret for the killing of Emmett Louis Till, Chicago schoolboy kidnapped and beaten to death while visiting an uncle in Mississippi...

...It is known that Senator Knowland has sounded out a New Hampshire GOP leader in Washington on whether he would have a chance against Eisenhower in New Hampshire...

...At no time did any founder of the Federation for Constitutional Government protest violations of the Constitutional rights of prominent members of the NAACP in the South-through physical violence or economic coercion...

...Harold Stassen, the state's "boy wonder" back in 1938, returned for a short visit and announced his re-entrance into state politics...

...If the President decides to retire, there is a possibility that the right wing will try to make Senator Bridges a favorite-son candidate, or it may support Senator William F. Knowland of California...

...Faced with these obstacles, Humphrey and Freeman (both of whom were pro-Kefauver four years ago) are moving fast to head off the possibility of failure...

...Republicans generally are close-mouthed on what they will do if President Eisenhower steps out of the running before the filing deadline...

...Barr immediately revealed that he was cooperating with such extremist notables as Merwin K. Hart and Edward Rumely...

...With the major party leaders so silent on Southern incitement to murder and coercion and denial of due process of law...

...Attorney General in charge of the Criminal Division, and his civil-rights chief, Arthur B. Caldwell, have told the Jewish Labor Committee that the unconstitutional aspects of the White Citizens' Councils were being investigated...

...New Hampshire voters will also elect delegates on March 13 to a constitutional convention...

...Southern reactionaries resume the War of Secession...

...Kefauver and Harriman talk their language more clearly...

...Since the legislators themselves are usually the ones who win the delegate posts, proposals to alter the present setup and eliminate some legislative openings are not expected to be welcomed enthusiastically...

...Moreover, the Governor is staking his personal popularity on Stevenson...

...Several Democratic leaders have been eager to enter a Stevenson candidacy...

...By this standard, Stevenson must amass an overwhelming vote in the March 1956 Minnesota primary even in an uncontested race—to keep his lead in the Democratic Presidential sweepstakes...

...It was strange that, as the Federation's organization had increased, so had violence against U.S...

...Eugene Cox, National Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL's National Agricultural Workers Union, and an associate were being cruelly boycotted by "neighbors" who objected to their anti-segregation views...

...The labor groups, which hold the key to a large big-city vote, have never been ardent Stevensonians...

...Generations of Southerners yet unborn will cherish our memory because they will have preserved for them their unstained racial heritage, their culture and the institutions of the Anglo-Saxon race...

...Observers here, nevertheless, are unwilling to concede that New Hampshire is a Kefauver state...

...One of the major issues to be raised at this convention is the size of the state's House of Representatives (399 members), now the largest in the nation...

...and a long list of Southern Congressmen and influential businessmen...

...A routine primary vote would cast doubt not only on Stevenson's popularity but or...

...Now that oath has been rejected and a bold assault against the Constitution launched by Southern public officials and businessmen, State Governors past and present, and several United States Senators—including the Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security, James Eastland...

...Each community is now entitled to one representative for each 729 residents...

...At about the same time, in Eastland's home state, a white minister, Dr...

...Part of the explanation of the Humphrey-Freeman support for Stevenson may come from their feeling that he is the inevitable Democratic nominee—and a desire to commit both him and the national party to a high-parity farm program...

...They could have insured a good voter turnout by encouraging Kefauver to enter the primaries, thus sparking a healthy all-out fight...

...Even if President Eisenhower pulls himself out of the picture in time to give other Republicans a chance to get on the ballot before the filing deadline, February 11, the Eisenhower wing of the party is likely to retain a controlling influence in the 14-man delegation going to San Francisco...

...It was the "Minnesota miracle" of March 18, 1952 which rolled up an avalanche of almost 110.000 write-in votes for the General and convinced political professionals and amateurs alike of his vote-getting potential...

...At the Memphis meeting...

...Hart, a leading anti-Israel propagandist, has often appeared in the pages of Conde McGinley's hate sheet, Common Sense...

...We are about to embark on a great crusade to restore Americanism and return the control of our Government to our people," Senator Eastland is quoted as having told the Tennessee conclave...

...It is pointed out that Stevenson was not yet a contender in March 1952, that Kefauver was at the time at the height of his crime-busting popularity, that Kefauver ranged widely over the state, and that President Truman was at a low ebb...

...each month that passes brings less likelihood that they will be able to get the State House back in 1956...

...In his address to the AFL-CIO, Adlai Stevenson was persuaded to attack violence "in certain sections of the country" which prevented Negro voting...