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...require an unheard-of amount of Government supervision. With the election of Roosevelt, Wilson was able to convince the incoming Agriculture Secretary, Henry Wallace, to carry out his idea. "I tell you frankly that it is a new and untrod path," Roosevelt declared in sending the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) to Congress that May, "but . . . an unprecedented condition calls for the trial of new means...
...illegitimacy of the GSA's claim is obvious; that of the BSA and the AAA is less so. Therefore, for the BSA and AAA to encourage or allow a political link, or any other connection between themselves and the GSA indicates either inexcusable naivete or a desire to commit political suicide...
...course, the intention here is not to counsel the BSA or AAA in survival politics; in fact, just the opposite is true. By acting as though they have the mandate their names imply, they have both become guilty of the most odious hubris...
...Both the AAA and the BSA have yet to demonstrate that they speak for a significant fraction of the constituencies they claim to represent. The confusion could best be resolved by taking a poll to discover how many Black and Asian students expressly wish to be represented by the BSA and the AAA...
With respect to the questions before the Constitution Committee of the council, we have addressed primarily two issues. First, the illegitimacy and, when taken to its logical conclusion, the puerility of the GSA's demand for permanent representation, and secondly, the illogical premise from which the BSA and AAA claim their authority to make demands on the behalf of all Blacks and Asians...