HOLIDAY GREETINGS
PROGRESSIVE "Ye shall know thk truth and the truth shall make you free" Holiday Greetings HPo the nine teen-age Negroes of *¦ Little Rock, Arkansas, who have helped keep alive the dream of...
...To Edward P. Morgan, whose nightly commentary on the news is one of the most distinguished on radio, and to the AFL-CIO which presents his program so gracefully and persuasively— Holiday Greetings...
...To James P. Warburg, Chester Bowles, Norman Thomas, Senator Hubert Humphrey, Jack Mendelsohn, Dr...
...James Roosevelt, California, and Frank Thompson, Jr., New Jersey, Democrats all, who dared buck the conventional political line by issuing a statement calling upon President Eisenhower to seek talks with the Soviets as an alternative of the "horrors of push-button, nuclear warfare"-— Holiday Greetings...
...To James Reston, chief of the Washington Bureau of the New York Times, who added to his stature as one of the nation's finest journalists by his superb reporting from the Soviet Union— Holiday Greetings...
...To Walter Lippmann, whose commentaries on world affairs set a new high in excellence during the past year— Holiday Greetings...
...L. C. Bates, president of the Arkansas State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, who showed extraordinary courage and exercised level-headed judgment in guiding the nine Negro children— Holiday Greetings...
...Henry Reuss, Wisconsin...
...Jordan and his Koinonia Farm by asserting that it was Christ, not Communism, that Dr...
...To Representative John Moss, California Democrat, whose persistent investigation of government suppression of news may yet shame public officials into adopting a more adult attitude toward the adults of America—Holiday Greetings...
...To the six Congressmen, Representatives Eugene McCarthy, Minnesota...
...To the Reverend Clarence Jordan, brilliant and courageous founder and leader of the inter-racial, communal Koinonia Farm, in Georgia, who has stood firm against the slings and arrows and bullets of the worst of the South—• Holiday Greetings...
...To Chief Justice Earl Warren and his associates on the U.S...
...To Dr...
...Supreme Court, whose 1957 decisions in the field of civil liberties constituted one of the most memorable chapters in the eternal struggle for freedom— Holiday Greetings...
...PROGRESSIVE "Ye shall know thk truth and the truth shall make you free" Holiday Greetings HPo the nine teen-age Negroes of *¦ Little Rock, Arkansas, who have helped keep alive the dream of American equality by persevering in their attendance at Central High School— Holiday Greetings...
...To Governor LeRoy Collins of Florida, whose counsel of moderation in the field of civil rights holds out a flicker of hope for the emergence of political statesmanship in the South— Holiday Greetings...
...To John Crosby, whose commentary on television, syndicated by the New York Herald Tribune, is the ablest and most adult survey we see— Holiday Greetings...
...To Vice President Nixon, whose newly unveiled devotion to civil rights and foreign economic aid makes him seem, for the moment anyway, a somewhat less forbidding political figure than the Nixon of old— Holiday Greetings...
...And to all men and women in every country on earth who share the deep-hunger of the human heart for Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men— Holiday Greetings...
...Fayez A. Sayegh, and Yekutiel Hugh Orgel, whose articles in The Progressive's widely acclaimed special issue on the Middle East proved so helpful to so many Americans searching for truth in an area that is so often a no-man's land of rampant emotionalism— Holiday Greetings...
...To the Columbia Broadcasting System, which added to its considerable stature in the gathering and interpreting of news by its much-criticized but remarkably prophetic television interview with Nikita Khrushchev— Holiday Greetings...
...To the citizens of Pleasantville, Texas, who voted overwhelmingly to desegregate their public schools and proceeded harmoniously to achieve that objective— Holiday Greetings...
...George Rhodes, Pennsylvania...
...To Walter Reuther, America's leading labor statesman, who has led the United Automobile Workers in pioneering the development of anti-corruption machinery in the labor movement— Holiday Greetings...
...To President Eisenhower, who has earned the right to retire to a quieter life— Holiday Greetings...
...To the several thousand little angels who have been digging so deeply into their slender resources in their annual struggle to keep The-Progessive alive— Holiday Greetings...
...To the American Book Publishers Council, whose research and educational activities have helped to illuminate the always troublesome problem of censorship— Holiday Greetings...
...To the 23 Georgia ministers of many denominations, who sought to stem the violence against Dr...
...To James Gould Cozzens, whose novel, By Love Possessed, represented the high tide of American letters in 1957— Holiday Greetings...
...Harry W. Laidler, who has just retired after 47 years of distinguished service as executive director of the League for Industrial Democracy, and to Sidney Hertzberg who succeeds him— Holiday Greetings...
...To Senator William E. Jenner, Indiana Republican, who has gladdened many hearts by announcing his decision not to seek reelection to the Senate— Holiday Greetings...
...To Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker, one of the world's most brilliant theoretical physicists, who read American physicists a lesson in liberty by taking the leading role in the refusal of 18 eminent German physicists to work on nuclear weapons and then resigned his high post at the Max Planck Institute for Physics to become professor of philosophy at the University of Hamburg— Holiday Greetings...
...To Cyrus S. Eaton, one of the nation's most successful industrialists and financiers, who has come out sled-length for "meeting the Soviets halfway" in the pursuit of negotiated settlements— Holiday Greetings...
...To Representative Brooks Hays, whose arduous efforts to create respect for the Constitution in Arkansas went largely unrewarded— Holiday Greetings...
...To William Trinke, a state senator in the Wisconsin legislature and a former commander of the American Legion in Wisconsin, who ignored the wrath of some of his fellow Republicans and many of his fellow Legionnaires by successfully leading the fight against legislation which would have prohibited subversives from meeting or speaking in tax-supported public buildings in Wisconsin— Holiday Greetings...
...To Danny Kaye, who continues to bring happiness to so many youthful hearts in great work for UNICEF around the world— Holiday Greetings...
...To Howard K. Smith, who has returned to the United States to serve the Columbia Broadcasting System in Washington after 20 years of brilliant news analysis from abroad— Holiday Greetings...
...To George Meany, who, for all his waywardness in the field of foreign policy, has fought so gallantly to banish corruption from the labor movement and develop a greater degree of democratic processes within the unions— Holiday Greetings...
...Jordan embraced, and by praying that "God's truth and Christ's redeeming love may be revealed in the present crisis in Sumter County"— Holiday Greetings...
...To Harry Ashmore, editor of the Arkansas Gazette, who spoke and fought for the otherwise inarticulate forces of decency in Little Rock and Arkansas as he exposed the contemptible conduct of Governor Orval Faubus— Holiday Greetings...
...To Alan Paton and his associates, who are waging a great struggle for human decency and enlightened racial policies in the Union of South Africa, against fearful odds— Holiday Greetings...
...Lee Metcalf, Montana...
...To Mrs...
...To James A. Wechsler, editor of the New York Post, whose daily editorials are unrivaled for trenchant clarity and dedication to the highest ideals of American liberalism— Holiday Greetings...
...To all the members of The Progressive's staff, to those who write for us, to the typesetters, proofreaders, make-up men, engravers, and pressmen who help produce The Progressive, and to the mailmen who deliver the magazine to subscribers in all the 48 states and 65 foreign countries— Holiday Greetings...
...To Lester Pearson, former Liberal Party Canadian foreign minister, and Sidney K. Smith, his Conservative Party successor in that post, who refuse to accept the Dulles dogma that we should reject all Soviet proposals for conferences, at any level, and who are convinced that high-level conferences might fan some spark of hope 3 for negotiated agreements of the issues that divide East and West— Holiday Greetings...
...To Dag Hammarskjold, SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations, who continues to buck overwhelming odds in his quest for the beginnings of peace in the Middle East— Holiday Greetings...
...To Catholic Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel of New Orleans, whose courageous insistence that his church is "color blind" has been a bright light of hope in the race troubled South— Holiday Greetings...
...To all our subscribers everywhere in the world— Holiday Greetings...
...To Leonard Bernstein, a great artist whose spectacular rise in the world of music has brought joy to the millions who see and hear his work on the stage and television and in the concert hall— Holiday Greetings...
...To Lillian Smith, whose crusading militancy in behalf of civil rights may yet stiffen the spines of Southern moderates while she exposes the moral degeneracy of the respectable fronts for mob rule in the South— Holiday Greetings...
Vol. 22 • January 1958 • No. 1
