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Henry a Wallace — Part 5

211 pages · May 10, 2026 · Document date: Apr 17, 1948 · Broad topic: Politics & Activism · Topic: Henry a Wallace · 211 pages OCR'd
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«je ‘ PROVIDENCE The President has refused to send to the Congress drafts implement his announced program. He says the Congress resents & knows perfeotly well that the Executive branch of the government genuinely interested in legislation does prepare drafts as a wor Congress. Shire has heen quite a furor in the South over the so-cal of legislation to uch drafts. But he » When it is king base for the led Civil Rights program, but Senator McGrath has been doing 4 pretty good job of setting things - gtraight with the southern reactionaries. He has explained that the alarm which these southerners felt over the program to help abolish discrimination and segregation is unfounded. The southern senators and governors were worried. They thought the proposal to create a special civil rights division in the Justice Department would mean that federal officers would be sent into t protect the civil rights of the poorer white people and the Neer Senator McGrath, in his conference with the southern governors, the President meant no such things | For example, the Democratic chairman seid: “Stories have was the intention to send out posses of officers to pick out ins people were denied the right to vote, Very definitely that is f he south to actually, o citizens. But assured them that gone out that it tances where arthest from the President's mind.” Apparently we only want to supervise elections thousands of miles from homee The stories which appeared iv. southern papers ~ and very few northern papers - after that memorable couference between ure wieGrath and the southern governors reported that the Democratic chairman guid the primary intention was to curb “industrial hoodlumism" and not to interfere in the south. Any trade uniodn member will tell you what politicians mean when they use the term "industriel hoodlumism" and talk about a police forco to combst ite This is the old game of politics. You make good statements that are sufposed to win the votes of people who really believe in democracy and want democracye (more) Le Nee?
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