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- PO 77-5708 ba dvised she 8 kno as e personal end since 1929 and that she has been closely associated with him for more than 20 years in activities of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in which organization they have both been active and have held responsible positions. She stated that she considers THURGOOD MARSHALL to be an exceptionally well qualified attorney, particularly in the field | of constitutional law, and that he has ably represented the NAACP before the U. S&S. Supreme Court and before leaser courts on numerous occasions. She described MARSHALL as an ardent church worker and a man devoted to his family, with a strong sense of responsibility to his family. She stated she considers MARSHALL to be a person of excellent character, with an outstanding reputation, both professionally and socially, a person who associates with other persons of the highest caliber, and a loyal American citizen beyond the slightest question. She advised that several years ago when members of the Communist Party made a concerted effort to take control of the NAACP, MARSHALL took a leading part in formulating the organization's decision that there waa no place in the organization for Communist Party members and sympathizers, and that communists and/or persons who are identified with communists or communist L a front organizations are ineligible for membership in the NAACP. 7 22v1 200 as a token of MARSHALL's high character at sne and other friends of MARSHALL's were in the process of planning a dinner in his honor to be held in New York City in November of this year to which dinner about 500 of his close friends and acquaintances were to be invited. She stated that MARSHALL contacted her when he learned that he was being tonsidered for an appointment to a position in the Federal Judiciary and requested that the dinner be cancelled as he felt that such en affair might be misinterpreted by some persons as a move on his part to enhance his own position. She stated that MARSHALL has had several opportunities in the past to become a Justice but that she and others had dissuaded him, selfishly to a degree, because they felt that the NAACP needed his services as counsel and that they would be sorely pressed to find another person of his high character and ability to fulfill his responsibilitgsin the organization. ° a oa Sa eemiils, manliMsetiedelts sinmieiaeenn