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Rooted in racial and economic prejudices as outmoded as Salem witch-trials, the present United States immigration policy of restriction stands as a defenseless blot on our national conscience. On ethical grounds,-America, founded and populated by millions escaping political or religious persecution, is irrevocably committed to liberal immigration. But humanitarian reasons have been secondary to a people who grudgingly legalize entry for 39,000 Eastern and Southern Europeans annually, while 850,000 wallow homeless in Allied DI' camps alone. The causes of American inaction are deeper and deserve examination...
Addressing the Harvard Liberal Union in Phillips Brooks House, he expressed gratitude at the "tremendous job done by the American Veterans Committee in breaking down racial barriers through its inter-racial chapters...
...took an all-white jury at Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, just one hour and fifty-three minutes to acquit twenty-three out of twenty-five colored citizens charged with participation in "racial disorders" last February. It was a triumph for social justice, and a heartening indication of reconstruction by Southerners themselves. But in the mechanics of courtroom procedure, in the attitudes of both participant and spectator, and in the very conduct of the case, the incident revealed once again the weakness of jurisprudence below the Mason-Dixon: that before the bar two loyalties exist--one to justice, and another, even stronger...
...sense this conflict of loyalties which makes it so difficult to deal with even the best-intentioned of men when the racial conflict is in question," wrote Vincent Sheean in the New York Herald-Tribune last week. the acceptance of the social arrangement under a code of "white supremacy," then, went beyond the cranky rantings of Paul Bumpus, circuit Attorney General, whose pleas for hangings were on the grounds that "the trials at Nuernberg were not going to furnish enough victims," or Lynn Bomar, Tennessee's Commissioner of Safety, who raised violent objection to the addressing of Negro defendants...
...South, the stage is only embryonic. But only through such trials as these can the social system be changed and reconciled with the concepts of Western justice. Hundreds of lives may be lost in the struggle of flux. The sacrifice is unfortunate, but necessary. To deal with racial questions through alien agencies like Federal courts, as suggested by Sheean, would remove the very problems the South must solve in its self-education. Permanent change must come from within; the group must change itself.. Here is a beginning...