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...seek action now," cried N.A.A.C.P.'s Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins. "We are here to condemn murderers. We are here to demand redress for victims of cruel dictatorship." N.A.A.C.P.'s Washington director, Clarence Mitchell, added: "Tell those Democrats that if they keep a stinking albatross like Senator Eastland around their necks they can kiss our votes goodbye." Some N.A.A.C.P. delegates felt, however, that such talk did the organization more harm than good in the high-tension atmosphere of today...
...tradition of Senate seniority brought James O. Eastland to the chairmanship of the civil rights committee. Two weeks ago, Senator Eastland fell heir to the chairman's seat of the powerful Judiciary Committee. In view of some of the Senator's remarks (e.g. "the Negro race is an inferior race;"... the Supreme Court has been indoctrinated and brainwashed by left-wing pressure groups."), it does not seem possible that Eastland is suited for the job. In fact, his actions and utterances indicate that he will not even attempt to fulfill his important duties as head of the committee...
...seniority tradition brought Eastland to the fore, and although that tacit rule is airtight in the great majority of cases, it has nevertheless been broken three times in the past. "It is my judgement that the present vacancy in the chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee justifies making another exception to the seniority custom of the Senate," said Wayne Morse two weeks ago. The Senate did not agree with him. A different body, in a different age, might have acted in another...
...Eastland's succession to the judiciary chair is bound to have political repercussions in the North. Last week, for example N.A.A.C.P. Counsel Thurgood Marshall, a New Deal Democrat, said: "I have terrible difficulty in separating Adlai Stevenson's Democratic Party from Senator Eastland's Democratic Party. If I can ever separate them, I would assume I would be for Adlai Stevenson, but until I can separate them, I am against Senator Eastland's Democratic Party...
...assure Democratic victory. There is vast popular affection for Ike. His Administration is vulnerable on many matters; but its record can only be challenged by a party which has a deep and passionate liberal faith. At this moment the Democratic Party is shadowed by the racist war of Jim Eastland, by the attempted gas "giveaway" of Lyndon Johnson and by Walter George's crusade against an expanded foreign aid program...