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NY 100-7629 ; ; a Ui: "Now, with regard to the major negative facto in the convention: the rash of red-baiting on the part the leadership was unprecedented and more vicious than previously. Not.one single major speaker at the mass meetings did not red- _ To bait. o, that's a mistake - the single exception was Dr. ‘s bo Theodore less, the American-Pirster from Chicago who did not 7. : edbait in his speech accepting the Spingarn Award.) Channing jv: Nbias began with a keynote speech which, for political depth, Ww on a level lower than juvenile. He began by ranking the { Supreme Court decision with 'The Declaration of Independence, the Federal Constitution with its amendments, and the Emancipas- » a tion.' Then he invoked the spirit of Booker T. and the ‘Atlanta S Compromise' by quoting as follows from his own speech to the NAACP May 22 Atlanta meeting: ‘Let it not be said of us that we took advantage of a sweeping victory to drive hard bargains or to impose unnecessary hardships upon those responsible for working out the details of compliance,' ql "Then he got down to his real business of the evening. He said: ‘As has never been true before in the history of our Organization, we must see the fight for rights hens of Negro Americans as pert of a world struggle for freedom.' s There was spontaneous applause at this point, and there is no doubt that the audience had in mind a conscious alliance of 4 the struggle for Negro liberation with the struggles of iil colonial peoples in Asia and Africa for independence. However, almost before the applause died down Tobias went into a point by point support of U.S, foreign policy and the reaction of the audience was one of silence and bewilderment. He said: " 'puring the past year the situation has worsened considerably. The menacing cloud of communism continues to darken the international sky. The issues involving Korea are still unresolved. The struggle in Indo-China grows more desperate with every passing day. The Geneva Conference has been declared a failure. The government of the Union of South ) continues its apartheld campaign. The communist ‘ OX \K | Lag hl Canes Ser: Cn ena ee j ? ' ~