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...Democrats choose to hold the South at all costs by soft-pedaling FEPC and other New Deal measures hated in the South, they run a very grave risk of losing New York and California. On the other hand, if they try to make sure of New York-California by a hard-hitting New Deal program, they stand to lose a big piece of the South...
...subcommittee was bitterly divided. Mrs. Younger and two other members wanted to call for a federal agency (she avoided the explosive initials FEPC) to push civil rights. The two other members were violently opposed. As a result, Millikin's full committee got majority and minority reports, and came out with a plank that each side could construe as it wished: '"We believe that it is the primary responsibility of each state to order and control its own domestic institutions . . . However, we believe that the Federal Government should take supplemental action within its constitutional jurisdiction to oppose discrimination against...
Last week aged Vice President Alben Barkley stepped forward and announced that he would like to try. The Veep has always managed to be loyal to the Fair Deal (including FEPC), and at the same time so loyal to his friends both in the North & South that he is regarded by one & all as "Mr. Democrat." Asked on what ballot he expects his nomination, Barkley cracked: "Almost any ballot would be satisfactory...
...four are badly divided on only one issue: compulsory FEPC. Harriman is strongly for it, Russell strongly opposed; Kefauver and Kerr are weaseling. On foreign policy, none of them differs appreciably with the Truman-Acheson line. All are increasing the vitriol content in their remarks about Eisenhower...
...same time, Russell assailed the Truman Administration for "inexcusable waste" in rearmament, and for its stretch-out of aircraft production. He said it was "little short of a national disgrace to be outproduced in jet planes by Soviet Russia." Russell was also busily defending his opposition to FEPC, which he calls an "adventure ... in socialism...