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...Carl T. Rowan, director of the United States Information Agency, last night sharply criticised Americans who think they live "in a dream world where there are readily identifiable enemies against whom we are either tough or soft...
While disagreement between the U.S. and neutral or allied countries cannot always be dispelled, Rowan continued, "no foreign policy can succeed today that makes no allowance for what is in the hearts and minds of the people of other countries...
...Rowan also laid strong emphasis on the propaganda effect of passing the Civil Rights Act. Widespread compliance, he declared, is of "vital importance" to the United States in "the world struggle" against Communism...
...Rowan quoted a Chinese charge that the Civil Rights bill is a "legislative fraud designed to stifle the Negro civil rights movement." Noting that anti-American charges fall on sympathetic ears throughout Asia and Africa, Rowan outlined USIA programs to counteract the effects of Chinese propaganda...
That was the spirit in which the convention began. Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins decried the "reckless adventurism" of more militant civil rights groups. Warned Carl Rowan, a Negro and director of the U.S. Information Agency: "Don't use an elephant gun to hunt toads." Counseled Guest Speaker Hubert Humphrey, the Senate's Democratic floor manager for the civil rights bill: "There is a place and a time for banners. But there is also a time to stack the banners for a while and get down to the patient, infinitely detailed work of making civil rights realities...