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Wrongs & Disabilities. It is to the Los Angeles bartender and others in this ambivalent and genuinely torn sector of Negro opinion that Negro leaders, at the local as well as national levels, must address themselves. Last week, four of the nation's best known Negro leaders* spoke up. "Killing, arson, looting are criminal acts, and should be dealt with as such," they said. Noting that most damage inflicted by Negro rioters is at the expense of other Negroes, they added: "There is no injustice which justifies the present destruction of the Negro community and its people. This does...
...paper, drafted by two-time G.O.P. Presidential Candidate Thomas E. Dewey, Florida Representative William Cramer (author of the House-passed antiriot bill) and Colorado Governor John Love. Accusing Lyndon Johnson of a good share of responsibility for the state of anarchy that prevailed in the nation's riot-torn cities, it also hinted that a conspiracy was behind the disorder...
...riots, as acts of protests, are regrettable. For the angry devastation the nation's Negroes save wreaked in the past month may only hurt their own cause. The torn ghettos, if the aftermath of Watts is any lesson, will not be reconstructed. And sadly, most whites lack the intelligence and magnanimity to realize that compassion and sharply escalated governmental spending and attention are called for. They will look for conspiracies, fix their gaze on the H. Rap Browns, call for stricter police control, and encourage their Congressmen to continue reducing anti-poverty spending...
Less than a week ago, the House passed, 347-70, and sent to the Senate, a bill to prohibit the use of interstate facilities with the intent to incite a riot. The author of the bill, William C. Cramer (R-Fla.), quoted officials in several riot-torn cities who claimed that outsiders were either involved or responsible for the violence. Cramer said his bill was "aimed at those professional agitators" who travel from city to city and "inflame the people to violence" and then leave before trouble begins. Rules Committee Chairman William M. Colmer (D-Miss.) added that the riots...
Other individuals and some congregations made similar inquiries at the Department of Defense in Washington. Some of them were opposed to the entire Confession and were using the security argument to develop support for their position; others were for the Confession but opposed to this statement; others felt torn in their loyalties between church and state...