Holiday Greetings

...To Cyrus Eaton, the millionaire industrialist, who has struck courageously against repressive investigations of loyalty and security, and who has spoken up boldly for give-and-take negotiations with the Soviet Union— Holiday Greetings...

...To Trans-World Airlines, which has inaugurated "a gradual system of racial integration" in its employment policies, and particularly for its hiring of the first Negro hostess in American aviation history— Holiday Greetings...

...To Dag Hammarskjold, whose struggle to bring reason and right into our disordered world has done so much to maintain our uneasy peace in the face of staggering difficulties— Holiday Greetings...

...To Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., militant lawyer of Washington, D.C., whose battles for civil liberties have been worthy of the finest traditions of his profession— 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 Herbert Block (Herblock), whose brilliant cartoons throw revealing light—and needed humor—on many major issues— Holiday Greetings...

...To the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, whose relentless struggle in behalf of civil rights has done so much to help achieve the progress of the last decade— Holiday Greetings...

...To Philadelphia's Mayor Richardson Dilworth, who sacrificed the chance of becoming the Democratic Party's candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania by advocating United States recognition of Communist China—¦ Holiday Greetings...

...To Nelson Rockefeller, whose spectacular triumph in New York heralds the hope of a more liberal Republican Party— Holiday Greetings...

...To Paul M. Butler, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, for standing firm against Southern bigots in his party— Holiday Greetings...

...To Senator Hubert Humphrey, Minnesota Democrat, whose tireless efforts in behalf of disarmament have provided a bright light in an otherwise darkened corner of foreign affairs— Holiday Greetings...

...To Herbert H. Lehman, who, though retired from the Senate, continues to exercise a healthy influence on American public life— Holiday Greetings...

...To the six Negro pastors in Birmingham, Alabama, who risked and received jail sentences for preaching sermons condemning racial segregation— Holiday Greetings...

...To the Indiana CIO, which refused to attend a Governor's Civil Defense Conference in the World War II's Memorial Building in Indianapolis because the building had been denied the Indiana Civil Liberties Union for a Bill of Rights Day meeting— Holiday Greetings...

...To the crews of the Phoenix and the Golden Rule, who were prepared to risk their lives in a gallant protest against nuclear testing in the Pacific last summer— Holiday Greetings...

...And to all men and women everywhere on earth who share a deep hunger for Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men— Holiday Greetings...

...To the New York City Council, which adopted the first anti-discrimination bill in private housing—¦ Holiday Greetings...

...To Walter Lippmann, whose brilliant reporting from Moscow added luster to his firmly established role as one of the nation's outstanding analysts of foreign affairs— Holiday Greetings...

...University, who warned against indiscriminate censorship, noting that some of the Vatican's priceless art collection could be judged obscene or pornographic under loose definitions of those terms— Holiday Greetings...

...To the Hanover Park, N.J., School Board, which refused to fire a teacher under attack by the American Legion for publishing, in the school magazine, three student essays critical of the bombing of Hiroshima— Holiday Greetings...

...To Professor Waldo McNeir of Louisiana State University, and vice chairman of the Louisiana Civil Liberties Union, who led the fight against intimidation of teachers asked to sign a University petition protesting a series of anti-integration school bills— Holiday Greetings...

...To the Study Conference of the National Council of Churches of Christ, which courageously called for United States recognition of Communist China— Holiday Greetings...

...to avoid any slide into the ghetto patterns that have occurred elsewhere"— Holiday Greetings...

...To Brooks Hays, of Little Rock, who sacrificed his political career in a notable effort to achieve a moderate solution of the school integration crisis— Holiday Greetings...

...To the Southern Regional Council, whose educational activities in behalf of civil rights shed much-needed light on one of the most troublesome issues of our times— Holiday Greetings...

...To the American Friends Service Committee, which continues to perform such prodigious feats in the quest for world fellowship and understanding— Holiday Greetings...

...To the American Civil Liberties Union, which is ever on the firing line to protect the rights of individuals and safeguard the Bill of Rights— Holiday Greetings...

...To Rabbi William B. Silverman of Nashville, who has eloquently warned his fellow Jews that they cannot buy security through silence on the civil rights issues of the South— Holiday Greetings...

...To the Koinonia Community of Georgia, which goes on demonstrating calm courage in its interracial program in the Deep South despite mob hostility— Holiday Greetings...

...To The Nation, which dared stray from the conventional hero-worship of J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI, in its special issue devoted to the man and the agency— Holiday Greetings...

...To Senators Jacob Javits, New York, and Clifford Case, New Jersey, both Republicans, and Paul H. Douglas, Illinois, and Hubert Humphrey, Minnesota, both Democrats, who have assumed the leadership in the approaching struggle to get the Senate to strike a mortal blow at filibustering— Holiday Greetings...

...To all our subscribers everywhere in the world— 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 Progressive alive— Holiday Greetings...

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...To Edward P. Morgan, whose nightly newscasts provide a refreshing contrast to so much on radio that is rubbish— Holiday Greetings...

...To the residents of Springfield Gardens in Queens, New York, who formed a Neighborhood Relations Committee, with the assistance of the Commission on Intergroup Relations, to try to maintain "a racially balanced community in an area into which Negroes are moving...

...To the 312 white clergymen of Atlanta, of all denominations, who called upon the South to comply with the Supreme Court's desegregation orders— Holiday Greetings...

...To John Kenneth Galbraith, whose book, The Affluent Society, has made an enormous contribution to fresh thinking on current economic problems— Holiday Greetings...

...To Catholic Professor Vernon J. Burke of St...

...To Chief Justice Earl Warren and the majority of his associates on the United States Supreme Court, who continue to stand as the vigilant guardians of our civil rights and civil liberties— Holiday Greetings...

...To Martin Luther King, Jr., who shows firmness while rejecting fanaticism in the struggle for racial equality— Holiday Greetings...

...To the Subversive Activities Commission of the Minnesota American Legion, which "refused to be part of an unsupported attack on individuals or organizations" in their study of possible sources of subversion— Holiday Greetings...

...To Bernard Schwartz, who, for all his bumptiousness during the process, gave the nation a fleeting glimpse into the waywardness of some of our major regulatory agencies— Holiday Greetings...