HOLIDAY GREETINGS

...To the Minnesota and Wisconsin Education Associations, which braved the wrath of American Legion Mc-Carthyites in refusing to drop Max Lerner from their convention programs— Holiday Greetings...

...To Steve Allen, who has dared risk his popularity as a topflight television comedian by enlisting in worthy if unconventional causes— Holiday Greetings...

...To The Reverend Lloyd Foreman, Methodist minister, and Mrs...

...To the Southern Regional Council and its executive director, Harold Fleming, who continue to provide invaluable research and direction in the struggle to breach the barriers of discrimination in the South— Holiday Greetings...

...Louis Post-Dispatch in the field of test ban negotiations and the Administration's efforts to transfer nuclear weapons to other countries have consistently been the best to come out of the nation's capital— Holiday Greetings...

...To the American Broadcasting Company and sponsor, Bell & Howell, whose "Yanki No" program gave us some pictorial insights into the explosive causes of conflict in Latin America— Holiday Greetings...

...on, ever more courageously in the face of crushing odds, to make the United Nations a more effective instrument for world peace— Holiday Greetings...

...To Ezell Blair, David Richmond, Franklin McLain, and Joseph McNeil, four freshmen at the Negro Agricultural and Technical College, Greensboro, North Carolina, who introduced an irresistible new dimension—passive resistance—to the struggle for civil rights by staging the first lunch-counter sit-in— Holiday Greetings...

...To countless American students, who, through sit-ins, picketing, and other forms of non-violent protest against racial discrimination, demonstrated that social ferment is once again a significant force on the campuses of our colleges and universities— Holiday Greetings...

...James Gabrielle, who braved the hatred and hysteria of a screaming, spitting mob of bigots to take their children to tokenly desegregated schools in New Orleans— Holiday Greetings...

...To Edward R. Murrow and the Columbia Broadcasting System, whose devastating documentary on the exploitation of migrant farm labor truly exposed a "Harvest of Shame"— Holiday Greetings...

...To Representative James Roosevelt of California, whose incisive analysis of the activities and procedures of the House Un-American Activities Committee has measurably strengthened the forces opposing the Committee's invasion of freedom of speech and association— Holiday Greetings...

...To The Reverend Jerome Drolet, a Roman Catholic priest, who came with his Bible to The Reverend Foreman's side in the face of the shrieking mob— Holiday Greetings...

...To the Supreme Court of North Carolina, which reversed the conviction of forty-one Negro students for trespassing on a sidewalk in front of a F. W. Woolworth store, as part of a sit-in protest, by asserting that the First Amendment protects such picketing activity— Holiday Greetings...

...To the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which upheld the sanctity of the Fifth Amendment in ordering the reinstatement of four Philadelphia school teachers dismissed by the board of public education for refusing, on Fifth Amendment grounds, to answer questions of the House Un-American Activities Committee— Holiday Greetings...

...To Representative Henry S. Reuss, who was the original Congressional author of the concept of a Youth Peace Corps which in one short year developed into an integral part of President-elect Kennedy's program— Holiday Greetings...

...To Senator Clifford Case, New Jersey Republican, who was overwhelmingly reelected in the face of a bitter struggle by reactionary forces bent on punishing him for his liberal record— Holiday Greetings...

...To Chet Huntley, the National Broadcasting Company, and their sponsor, Timex, whose television program on the U-2 incident gave the nation a powerful if belated exposure of the dismal ineptitude of the Eisenhower Administration in the handling of that episode— Holiday Greetings...

...To Edward P. Morgan, whose nightly newscasts throw revealing light on much that is significant but ignored or suppressed by so many of his contemporaries— Holiday Greetings...

...To James Wadsworth, whose patient, persistent efforts as United States negotiator at the test ban conference in Geneva has materially helped move those negotiations forward— Holiday Greetings...

...Linus Pauling, who emerged with honor from the attacks upon him by the Senate Internal Security Committee for his continuing efforts for peace— Holiday Greetings...

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

...To Senator George D. Aiken of Vermont, who urged the United States to consider internationalizing the Panama Canal under the United Nations or some other international agency— Holiday Greetings...

...To Dr...

...To Federal Judge James Skelly Wright, whose quiet firmness held the legal line against bigotry run wild in Louisiana— Holiday Greetings...

...To the four little Negro children of New Orleans, and their courageous parents, who symbolized to the world the renewed struggle to crack school segregation in the Deep South— Holiday Greetings...

...To Herman Phlager, chief United States negotiator for the Antarctica Treaty which demilitarized an area of the world larger than the United States and Europe combined— Holiday Greetings...

...To Adlai E. Stevenson, whose speeches on American foreign policy have held out a compelling alternative to the frozen, negative approach pursued by those in power— Holiday Greetings...

...To Justice Hugo L. Black, Justice William O. Douglas, and Chief Justice Earl Warren, whose dissent in the Uphaus case sought eloquently if vainly to halt the further erosion of the Bill of Rights— Holiday Greetings...

...To the several thousand little angels, who have been digging so deeply into their slender resources in the annual struggle to keep The Progessive alive— Holiday Greetings...

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

...To Dr...

...To Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, who continues to serve ably as the chief spokesman in Congress for disarmament— Holiday Greetings...

...To the United States Civil Rights Commission, which issued a hardhitting report on discriminatory treatment in the fields of voting, education, and housing, and submitted affirmative proposals to ameliorate the problem— Holiday Greetings...

...To Marquis Childs, whose Washington dispatches to the St...

...To Representatives William H. Meyer of Vermont, Byron L. Johnson of Colorado, and Charles O. Porter of Oregon, who fought so militantly for a creative American foreign policy but went down to defeat in their bid for reelection— Holiday Greetings...

...To the universities of Maryland and Illinois, which reversed longstanding rules to permit conscientious objectors to be exempt from ROTC programs— Holiday Greetings...

...To Representative Robert W. Kas-tenmeier of Wisconsin, one of the leaders of the Democratic Liberal Project overwhelmingly reelected, who attempted to establish government policy against the first use of germ and gas weapons— Holiday Greetings...

...To the State of Delaware, which became the seventeenth state to adopt an enforceable FEPC law— 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 fifty states and 107 foreign countries— Holiday Greetings...

...To President-elect John F. Kennedy, who enters the Presidency committed to use the great powers of that office to quicken the American purpose through a program of progressive action at home and the pursuit of peace abroad— Holiday Greetings...

...To Senator Estes Kefauver, whose superb service as Senator from Tennessee was rewarded by decisive reelection despite an unparalleled campaign of hate, bigotry, and distortion— Holiday Greetings...

...To I. F. Stone, whose Weekly is one of the most alert and militant watchdogs in Washington— Holiday Greetings...

...Willard Uphaus, seventy, who has just completed his year of imprisonment in a New Hampshire jail because his conscience would not permit him to betray the "direct teachings of the Bible that it is wrong to bear false witness against my brother"— Holiday Greetings...