HOLIDAY GREETINGS
Holiday Greetings TO THE people of Hungary who fought so magnificently for freedom—against the cruel odds of Soviet tanks and tyranny— Holiday Greetings. To the people of Poznan, and of the other...
...To the Members of The Progressive, Inc., the non-profit foundation that publishes the magazine, whose generous contributions in 1956 make continued publication in 1957 possible— Holiday Greetings...
...To Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, and the Roman Catholic Church in general, for their enlightened position on segregation in the South and their pioneering efforts in parochial school integration— Holiday Greetings...
...To Adlai E. Stevenson, who contributed measurably to the raising of campaign standards in the United States and who, despite two defeats at the polls, has added significantly to the nation's political education— Holiday Greetings...
...To that small band of reasonable men in Algeria and that smaller company of rational men in France who continue to work, against staggering odds, for a viable settlement of a conflict that could dwarf the explosion in the Middle East— Holiday Greetings...
...The policeman must be constantly mindful of the civil rights of all the people"— Holiday Greetings...
...To Isaac Stern, celebrated American violinist, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the cast of Porgy and Bess for expressing forms of American art and culture so superbly to the peoples of the Soviet Union— Holiday Greetings...
...thoughtful statement on the proper function of the police in a democratic society—"to maintain the delicate balance between the liberty of the individual and the demands of society for protection against crime...
...To Herbert Lehman, who is now retiring as United States Senator from New York, for his unparalleled contribution to better government and his long, often lonely struggle for tolerance, freedom of conscience, and equality of opportunity— Holiday Greetings...
...To all our subscribers around the world— Holiday Greetings...
...Louis, Missouri, and Louisville, Kentucky, for facing up to and coping with the problems of racial integration in the public schools— Holiday Greetings...
...To Benny Goodman, who has proved himself a prince of good-will as well as the king of swing as he travels the world with his orchestra, bringing the peoples of Asia, Africa, Europe, and South America some of the finest of American jazz and the best of American conduct^Holiday Greetings...
...To New York City's Police Commissioner Stephen P. Kennedy, for his...
...To the members of The Progressive's staff, to those who write for iis, to the typesetters, proofreaders, makeup men, engravers, and pressmen who help produce The Progressive, and to the postmen who deliver the magazine to subscribers in all the 48 states and 60 foreign countries...
...To those colonial subjects of Great Britain from Cyprus to Singapore who ire searching for the most hopeful Ifoad to independence— Holiday Greetings...
...To Dag Hammarskjold, Secretary-Beneral of the United Nations, who las braved the wrath of hot-tempered partisans in the bitter conflicts of re-Cent months as he pursued his ceaseless and selfless quest for the beginnings of peace— Holiday Greetings...
...To the people of Alaska, who ratified, by a margin of better than two to one, a constitution for statehood that included among other guarantees of freedom a provision that "the right of all persons to fair and just treatment in the course of legislative and executive investigations shall not be infringed"— Holiday Greetings...
...To the United Nations which has served, however erratically, as the conscience of mankind, and which, in recent months, has carried prodigious burdens on its frail shoulders— Holiday Greetings...
...To the American Association of University Professors, for boldly confronting the issue of discharges by timorous college boards and administrators where teachers have been under fire— Holiday Greetings...
...To President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who faces gargantuan problems as he approaches his second term— Holiday Greetings...
...To the school administrators, parents, teachers, and school children of Washington, D.C., St...
...To the Fund for the Republic, for its program of initiating and financing a wide variety of projects designed to safeguard and strengthen our liberties and heighten opportunities for racial minorities— Holiday Greetings...
...To the government and people of impoverished Austria for performing quietly and efficiently their errand of mercy in taking so many Hungarian refugees into their hearts and homes— Holiday Greetings...
...To Charles E. Bohlen, our ambassador to the Soviet Union, who has set a shining example for American diplomats by performing his delicate mission, frequently against heartbreaking odds, with exceptional skill and patience and a genuine determination to know and understand the people and the culture of the country to which he is accredited— Holiday Greetings...
...To the youth in all the Soviet satellite countries, many of them teenagers, who set the fires and fanned the flames of freedom, thus striking a mortal blow at the Kremlin's hope that this new generation reared exclusively under Communist indoctrination would serve the mother country subserviently— Holiday Greetings...
...To the people of Poznan, and of the other communities of Poland, who raised the year's first banner for liberty in occupied Eastern Europe— Holiday Greetings...
...To Edward P. Morgan of the American Broadcasting Company and Eric Sevareid of the Columbia Broadcasting System, for their consistently high standards in presenting the news and their interpretative commentary— Holiday Greetings...
...To the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, for repudiating the censorship pressure of super-patriots in a statement which emphasized that "it is important once and for all to dissipate this nonsense that any single group in our community is the custodian of the patriotism of the rest of us"— Holiday Greetings...
...To President Edwin B. Fred and the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin, for standing firmly against the witch-hunting pressures of the Wisconsin Department of the American Legion— Holiday Greetings...
...To the American Civil Liberties Union, and its affiliates throughout the country, for standing guard so vigilantly in defense of the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights— Holiday Greetings...
...To Eleanor Roosevelt, wha combines grace, tolerance, and militancy in her continuing appeal to reason on the major issues of our time— Holiday Greetings...
...To John Orr, Miami lawyer, who stood alone in the Florida legislature to vote against a group of bills designed to circumvent the Supreme Court's desegregation order— Holiday Greetings...
...To the Reverand Martin Luther King, Jr., and his Montgomery Improvement Association, for their gallant and successful application of passive resistance to bus segregation in that Alabama city— Holiday Greetings...
...To Danny Kaye, one of the great entertainers of our age, for giving so unselfishly of his time and talents to bringing a bit of happiness to countless children around the world as he roamed the earth under the auspices of the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund— Holiday Greetings...
...And to all men and women everywhere whose deepest longing this Holiday Season is for Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men— Holiday Greetings...
...To the great majority of the citizens of strife-torn Clinton, Tennessee, for rejecting a racist candidate for mayor and electing, by a four to one margin, the candidate who stood firmly for compliance with the preme Court decision on integration of the public schools— Holiday Greetings...
...To Chief Justice Earl Warren and the Associate Justices who stood with him in strengthening the United States Supreme Court as the guardian of our liberties, notably in cases during the past year involving the rights of minorities, freedom of conscience, and racial integration— Holiday Greetings...
...To the American Friends Service Committee, which continues to do so much so quietly in its overseas relief program, its domestic efforts to improve race relations, its program of peace education, and its readiness to provide a platform for both sides of controversial issues— Holiday Greetings...
Vol. 21 • January 1957 • No. 1
