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...master." Later, it reports that the present-day civil rights drive "drew savage resistance from local police, the White Citizens Council, the Ku Klux Klan, and mobs and assassins." When proposed for use in California schools, Land of the Free was denounced from the right as being "unAmerican" and too "internationalist," and from the left for not paying enough attention to Mexican and Chinese-Americans. The prime complaint, says Retired Los Angeles Principal Beulah Quiette, is that the book "does everything to glorify the Negro." Its authors-U.C.L.A.'s John W. Caughey, University of Chicago's John...
...TIME'S story is biased, pro-atheist and proCommunist, shocking and entirely unAmerican...
...months congressional stenographers catalogued the names and protestations of klaliffs, kleagles, kladds and kludds. Last week the House UnAmerican Activities Committee decided that it had heard all the testimony that it needed-or could stand-and quietly ended its hearings into the activities of the Ku Klux Klan...
...UnAmerican Statements." Gardner's most welcome pledge was that as many Cubans as possible will be encouraged to settle elsewhere. Priority for departure from Cuba will be given to refugees whose relatives live outside Miami, on the theory that the newcomers will follow their kin. Even so, the Federal Government cannot force them to live in any particular place. Of the 2,800 Cubans who arrived by boat before Castro closed Camarioca last week, 2,200 have registered with the Refugee Emergency Center; only 1,450 have agreed to settle outside Miami...
Achilles' Heel. While such activities were not classifiably unAmerican, the Congressmen's well-documented attack on the Klan surprised many critics of the committee, which heretofore has focused its investigative zeal on left-wing groups. Its hostility to Klan witnesses was all the more noteworthy because the committee is dominated by Southerners and Republicans-seven of whom voted against House passage of the 1964 Civil Rights...