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...terms on which the Negro states his aspirations preclude Negro solidarity. Negro spokesmen and Negro publications talk of acceptance, obliterating the distinctions between oneself and other men, being treated like a man and not a Negro. James Wilson has pointed out in Negro Politics how Negro society in the North is shaped toward reliance on white opinion and white pressure groups. And Gunnar Myrdal has concluded that the Negro problem in America is a white problem; that, for better or worse, the Negro's advancement depends on the values and attitudes of white society, since the Negro shares them completely...
...audible opposition, of course. Oscar R. Strackbein, chairman of the Nation-Wide Committee on Import-Export Policy and for a decade Washington's No. 1 professional lobbyist for trade barriers, warned that the bill would give the Administration "power to push domestic industries onto the ash heap." Spokesmen for firms that make machine tools, watches, bicycles, pianos and other products complained that tariff cuts would injure their industries. But these warnings and complaints seemed no more fervent, and perhaps less persuasive, than at hearings on reciprocal trade renewal in past years...
...Party spokesmen insist that the topic is still under discussion. A four-man commission is sounding out rank-and-file reaction to Gottwald's removal. The backing and filling points up one fact: the Czechs are a careful, canny and slow-moving people. Unlike neighboring Hungary, Poland or East Germany, Czechoslovakia has few outspoken malcontents and no likelihood of an uprising. The party, in return, is more lenient; the Czechs are allowed a relative cultural freedom. Western books sell briskly; J. D. Salinger is currently a favorite. Western films can be seen without stigma. In Prague, Designer Zdenka Bauer...
...know of no wise confessor who would dare impose an obligation in such matters except in the most clear-cut cases of dishonesty." Since President Kennedy has taken some public positions which do not agree with those of the Catholic hierarchy, said Father Reedy, "a few of the religious spokesmen who voiced the gravest preelection fears have unfairly implied that Mr. Kennedy is a good Catholic President because he is a bad Catholic. The judgment flows from an ignorance of the Catholic's personal responsibility to his conscience, from an ignorance of the ordinary relationships between the Catholic...
...jobs. Afterward, Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg will stress that the Kennedy bill provides for Government "adjustment assistance" to companies, managers and workers who are damaged by trade liberalization. Also going up to testify: Treasury's Dillon, Agriculture's Freeman, Defense's McNamara, and free-trading spokesmen for everyone from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the A.F.L.-C.I.O. to the League of Women Voters...