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Civil Rights. Though Southern Senators have bottled up legislation for a month in James 0. Eastland's Judiciary Committee, a break is in sight. Last week Senate Minority Leader William Fife Knowland delivered a G.O.P. ultimatum: no out-of-town trips for judiciary members until civil rights reaches the Senate floor. Reacting hastily, the Democratic leadership promised to report out the measure by May 20. Prognosis: after passage in the House and a last-stand Southern filibuster in the Senate, civil rights will be passed this session...
...citizenship status, which had to come from Congress. But he understood the outpouring of U.S. sympathy for Hungary's Freedom Fighters, and Congressmen, then on vacation, generally applauded his act. Since then, the necessary legislation has been bottled up in the Senate Judiciary Committee by Chairman James O. Eastland and in the House Immigration Subcommittee by Chairman Francis E. Walter, who is averse to any change in the McCarran-Walter Act, which he coauthored. Also bottled up by congressional-committee corks are the Eisenhower Administration's broader, longer-range proposals for revision of U.S. immigration laws...
Worthy is disappointed about other things which he sees in America's domestic and international policies. He could not bring himself to vote for Adlai Stevenson last fall, because Stevenson's party is the party of Senator James Eastland. He says now that he is sorry he did not at least register some sort of protest against the Eisenhower Administration. "Mr. Dulles," he says, "becomes more incredible by the day." Worthy is also incensed over the unbalanced and overly rosy American propaganda about integration which is given out abroad by officially sponsored American Negroes, who are looked upon by other...
...Senate Judiciary Committee put off action on the civil rights issue again yesterday, but Chairman Eastland (D-Miss.) said it probably would begin considering the legislation April 29. Eastland wouldn't predict when the committee might take a vote, but Sen. Neely (D-W. Va.) offered an estimate that it never would...
Herbert Norman's suicide would have attracted relatively little attention had it not been for the fact that the U.S. Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, headed by Mississippi Democrat James Eastland, last month revived a charge that Norman had been a Communist at Columbia University 19 years ago. Because of the charge, his death caused worldwide headlines and recriminations...