HOLIDAY GREETINGS
PROGRESSIVE "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free" Holiday Greetings To President Johnson, whose failures in foreign affairs were offset, in part, by many notable...
...To Robert Hollis, commander of the American Legion Post in Jewett City, Connecticut, who braved the wrath of his fellow Legionnaires by wearing his uniform at an antiwar demonstration he attended "out of deep religious and philosophical convictions that it is wrong for this nation to be engaged in the war in Vietnam"— Holiday Greetings...
...and Edith Green, Oregon— Holiday Greetings...
...To Chief Justice Earl Warren and the Associate Justices of the U.S...
...To Senator Thomas H. Kuchel, California Republican, who at the risk of damaging personal publicity, demanded investigation of a right-wing smear conspiracy against him with the result that the participants were convicted in court and the public made aware to what ugly lengths extremist elements will go to slander their opponents— Holiday Greetings...
...To James G. Patton, who is retiring as president of the National Farmers Union after a quarter of a century of militant leadership— Holiday Greetings To the Negroes of Natchez, Mississippi, whose three-month boycott of stores in that community ended recently with noteworthy concessions by the white power bloc— Holiday Greetings...
...To the sixty-four courageous Congressmen who backed a proposal to hold a House committee hearing on the appropriation for the House Un-American Activities Committee—and especially to the thirty-one most indomitable of their number who later voted against funds for HUAC— Holiday Greetings...
...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...
...To Izzy Stone, whose /. F. Stone's Weekly represents crusading journalism at its best— Holiday Greetings...
...To all the members of The Progressive's staff, who do so much above and beyond the call of duty— Holiday Greetings...
...To Senators Paul H. Douglas, Illinois, William Proxmire, Wisconsin, and Joseph D. Tydings, Maryland, who led the successful Senate fight against the "rotten borough" amendment to the Constitution which was urged by Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois and backed by Northern ruralists and Southern racists, whose grip on state legislatures is being broken by U.S...
...To the American Civil Liberties Union, which forcefully reminded the nation of the free speech guarantees in our Constitution as the pressure for conformity and consensus mounted during this year of escalating war in Vietnam— Holiday Greetings...
...To Senator Wayne Morse, the Oregon Democrat who doesn't care whether the White House loves him or not, but who continues to be the most persistent voice in the corporal's guard that offers what little criticism there is in the Senate of the Administration's Vietnam policy— Holiday Greetings...
...Hazel Brannon Smith, an editor in Lexington, Mississippi, who has continued to crusade for racial integration despite a bitter white boycott, and who was honored recently by Holmes County Negroes for "being our eyes to the truth"— Holiday Greetings...
...To Carl B. Stokes, the able Negro legislator, who came within a whisker of being elected mayor of Cleveland— Holiday Greetings...
...To Joseph C. Swidler, under whose chairmanship the Federal Power Commission has saved consumers many millions of dollars on their electric and gas bills, and has demonstrated how revitalization of a Federal regulatory agency can effectively protect the public— Holiday Greetings...
...Supreme Court, who fortified the foundations of freedom in a number of landmark decisions— Holiday Greetings...
...To the more than 9,000 little angels among our subscribers, whose generous contributions each year make it possible for The Progressive to survive and grow— Holiday Greetings...
...To U Thant, Secretary-General of the United Nations, who has persevered in the pursuit of peace for Vietnam— Holiday Greetings...
...To Mrs...
...war against worldwide want that would spend billions over the next decade to bring food to hungry nations and develop their capacity to grow greater quantities of food and fibers for their people— Holiday Greetings...
...To the American Friends Service Committee, which, in addition to all its other contributions to a more creative life, embarked on a program of relief for the voiceless victims of the war in Vietnam, whether in North or South Vietnam— Holiday Greetings...
...To Leslie W. Dunbar, who served with great distinction as executive director of the Southern Regional Council before resigning last year to become executive director of the Field Foundation—• Holiday Greetings...
...To Representative Robert Kasten-meier, Wisconsin Democrat representing The Progressive's home district, who pioneered in the holding of grassroots public hearings on American policy in Vietnam in the absence of any meaningful debate in Congress— Holiday Greetings...
...To Alfred A. and Blanche Knopf, who recently celebrated their fiftieth anniversary as publishers of books notable for their literary quality and their superb design and typography— Holiday Greetings...
...Jennelle Moorhead, a teacher and president of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers, who is leading the fight to keep the far right from capturing more local PTAs and taking over local public school systems— Holiday Greetings...
...To Attorney-General Richmond Flowers of Alabama who at great political and personal risk has been challenging the efforts of Governor George Wallace and other racists to make Alabama a lawless fugitive from the Constitution—• Holiday Greetings...
...To the professors and students, clergymen and housewives, editors, writers, doctors, and persons from other walks of life whose consciences have directed them to voice constructive dissent against our Vietnam policy and to support approaches that can lead to negotiated peace in that war-torn land— Holiday Greetings...
...To the reporters and editors of The New York Times, whose news stories and editorials on the war in Vietnam and the crisis in the Dominican Republic threw powerful light on the dark corners of American foreign policy— Holiday Greetings...
...John Conyers, Michigan...
...PROGRESSIVE "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free" Holiday Greetings To President Johnson, whose failures in foreign affairs were offset, in part, by many notable achievements in laying the domestic groundwork for the Great Society— Holiday Greetings...
...To Ewan Clague, who recently retired as Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after two decades of distinguished service— Holiday Greetings...
...To Mrs...
...To the editors and publishers of The Nation, which this year observed its 100th anniversary of distinguished independent journalism— Holiday Greetings...
...To the U.S...
...To those who write for us and those who do the art work— Holiday Greetings...
...To the Southern Regional Council, whose educational efforts in behalf of racial integration have been so useful in the South—• Holiday Greetings...
...fifty states and 116 foreign countries— Holiday Greetings...
...John G. Dow and William F. Ryan, New York...
...and Representatives George E. Brown, Jr., Philip Burton, and Don Edwards, California...
...To Eric Sevareid, whose Look interview with Adlai Stevenson gave us new insights into the Johnson Administration's coolness toward Communist overtures for negotiation of the conflict in Vietnam—Holiday Greetings...
...To all our subscribers and their families everywhere on earth— Holiday Greetings...
...To Senator William Fulbright, the Arkansas Democrat whose love of country compels him to expose our foreign policy blunders and whose concern for humanity leads him to propose constructive, alternative approaches in foreign affairs that can better man's lot and preserve American freedom as well—• Holiday Greetings...
...Wayne Morse, Oregon...
...To New Jersey's Governor Richard J. Hughes, who won reelection by a handsome majority in the face of a McCarthy-style campaign waged against him by his Republican opponent— Holiday Greetings...
...To Senator George McGovern of South Dakota, the prophet of Food for Peace, who has aroused Administration interest in his crucial proposal for a U.S...
...To those many clergymen of America who, in spite of the attacks of the far right, preach, teach, and bear witness to the social gospel by doing what they can on behalf of civil rights, social and economic opportunity for the poor, and the achievement of peace—¦ Holiday Greetings...
...Supreme Court reapportionment decisions—¦ Holiday Greetings...
...To the ten members of Congress who dared vote against the additional $700,000,000 appropriation for the war in Vietnam: Senators Ernest Gruen-ing, Alaska...
...Gaylord Nelson, Wisconsin...
...And to all men and women everywhere on earth who share a deep hunger for Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men— Holiday Greetings...
...Civil Rights Commission, which urged President Johnson to make a major change of policy by sending more Federal officers to racially-disturbed areas in the South and authorizing them to make on-the-spot arrests— Holiday Greetings...
...To the officials and staff of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF, as it is still known despite its change of name), whose errands of mercy won them the Nobel Prize for Peace at long last—¦ Holiday Greetings...
Vol. 30 • January 1966 • No. 1
