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leaders including minority
leader Rep. Joseph w. Martin,
Jr., Mass. in a surprise move
agreed with Vinson that
Powe.Ps amendment is ex-
traneous legislation without
bearing on the origional con-
text released from WILSON'S
committee.
This statement coming from
4 powerful COP leaders. which
seems inexpedient, must be
weighed in the balance from
a legislative standpoint and
together with President Essen
MOVERS executive interYen-
ton apparently has sidetrack-
ed the Powell amendment.
Thousands of Colored youth
will be confronted with a
morbid racial complex on flu
ture induction into segregated
military reserve units whereby
Congress attempts to define
White Supremacy a reality
when it intervenes and con-
tends that segregation in the
military reserve units of the
solid south, is legal neces-
Sity!
If this comes to past, it
means the Taxpayers OF the
nation will become fnvolun-
tary puryeyers of segregation
by legislative sanction. Pre-
Sident Eisenhower and his
COP advisers, who deem this
eXpedient as a law-making
program, if it ever takes eff
feet, may never live down the
political repercussions that
will arise in other sections of
the nation, excluding the solid
south. OpenmindedneSs on DO
iltical problems can be con-
doned, yet the radical unre-
constructed trend of the solid
south cannot be curbed when
mastermindS of racial APP
peasement intervene under
! preteXt to preserve law amt
order. 1t is evident that the
nation is in grave danger of
another war. Military pre-
paredness is justified neces-
sity. Manpower of all races
must be indicted to fill the
ranks of millions needed with
in defined age limits.
WILL WHITE
SUPREMACY PREVAIL?
Must youth of military age
be spotted for a race. creed
or color purge under Federal
legislative enactment to serve
their country? Are the cadets
at West Point, Annapolis
Coast Guard and Air Force
academies admitted to these
institutions on a basis that
White Supremacy must pre-
dominate? The above questions
are pertinent which lepisla-
tors in Congress should con-
slider with grave concern that
i manpower of our nation of
creed, color or race must be
accepted for military service
in our nation without distic-
ton or barriers, equality rul-
ing at all times from Undue
ton to discharge.
Predictions of President
Eisenhower and Rep. Carl Vim
son should not rule when
manpower is selected by legal
concept to sacrifice lives on
battle fields and high seas
at home or in any part of
the world! The Powell amend
ment has engendered sudden
legislative political indigna-
ton already warped by mis-
conceptions of foreign poll
cies, which have never de-
fined clearly the trends of
agressions as they have been
moving to a future climax.
The development of legisla-
tive bi-partisanship to clarity
diplomatic bungling since the
end of World War II has
many aspects of altruistic
craftsmanship, yet the endless
dearth Of conclusive results
far eXcede demands of a show
down in a grave crisis of the
whole world, so far not visible.
When President Eisenhower
informs the nation that man
power is only a nominal part
of national defense, which at
will and without recourse can
be segregated, a situation
arises upon which certain
groups of the nations man
power become disallussioned
as to whole hearted-fiedlity
when selected to serve the ma
ton for military training and
in time of War
PAST HISTORIC
PRECEDENTS
1t is a matter of historic
record that thousands of Col
ored soldiers during the Civil
War ould not accept any pay
until the ar Department of
that era was warned by exc
cutive order of President
Abraham Lincoln TO euualize