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Appeal to Ideals. From Georgia-born Secretary of State Dean Rusk the Committee heard a movingly eloquent appeal, not just for the Administration bill but for an end to all race discrimination in the U.S. "Foreign policy," he said, "is not the major reason we should eliminate discrimination. It is not some thing we should do merely to look good abroad. The primary reason why we must attack the problems of discrimination is rooted in our basic commitments as a nation and a people. We must try to eliminate discrimination not to make others think better of us, but because...
South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond, an unyielding segregationist, asked Rusk whether he would not "agree that we have been making great progress in this country." Rusk agreed, but added that "there is still unfinished business." Asked Thurmond: "Who has been responsible for that progress-the white man or the Negro?" Rusk replied softly: "Both, working together." Did Rusk approve of the Negro demonstrations?, Thurmond continued. "If I were denied what our Negro citizens are denied," said the Secretary of State, "I would demonstrate...
Virginia Foisie Rusk (Mrs. Dean Rusk). . . H.L.D...
...South with every issue by pouring salt in old wounds, let's add a little pepper to the salad by mentioning that in recent years the South was fertile enough to produce a good crop of writers: Wolfe, Faulkner, Harper Lee and Margaret Mitchell, plus a Barkley, Dean Rusk, Richard Russell, Byrd, Hodges, Helen Keller, Billy Graham and Dinah Shore, plus the core of the space program for good measure...
...DEAN RUSK, Secretary of State. . LL.D. MUHAMMAD ZAFRULLA KHAN, President, U.N.I TthGeneral Assembly..LL.D...