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port develops in Negro ranks Of the
administration stand, the effort
against the NAACP pattern of ac-
tivities may be pressed further"
Bartlett says "the move suggests
that Kennedy has decided as Presi-
dent to lend expression to annoy
ance and dislike which many Of his
colleagues in the Senate and House
feel for the shrill school Of pres
sure politics that is assiduously
practiced by NAACP officials"
GAS a senator, Mr.. Kennedy re-
belled against these tactics in a
1857 vote on the civil rights bill
and subsequently felt the lash Of
the NAACP's indignation. His ad-
ministration is already under heavy
pressure from the NAACP, one Of
whose officials, Clarence Mitchell,
has declared that the New Frontier
is a dude ranch"
"The conflict in viewpoints is
clear. The Kennedy officials, two
Of whom have spoken out publicly,
feel the NAACP should be more
constructive and educational and
less Of a gadfly in its dealings with
the political community. The MA
ACP spokesman, all of them vet
Grams at the business of pressing
the Negroes case, are committed to
philosophy of relentless chipping
away at the rock of inequality.
"The administration would like
to regard itself as taking the in
itiative in pressing the Negro
cause. The NAACP is unwilling to
relinquish the initiative, and to ac-
cept a policy of leave 1t To Pop
pa"
ANDREW Hatcher, Negro Assis-
tant White House Press Secretary,
sounded the first note of the con-
troversy in blunt address to the
Washington Chapter Of the MA
ACP. He suggested that the ac-
complishments of the Kennedy Ad-
ministration in the direction Of
civil rights would make it neces-
sary for the NAACP to seek broa-
der goals in other areas, particu-
larly economic advancement and
juvenile delinquency. If the MA
ACP did not turn its attention in
this new direction Hatcher warned,
it would stand in danger Of being
put out of business by the deeds Of
the Kennedy Administration"
"Hatcher's remarks stung Roy
Wilkins, executive secretary Of the
NAACP, into writing q sharp and
angry letter in which he maintain
ed that Hatcher's views put him in
harmony with the worst of the Sou
thern segregationists who had in
the past objected to the NAACP's
activities. Hatcher has not as yet
replied to the Wilkins letter.
'The administration view was
put more gently by the White
House specialist on civil rights,
Harris Wofford. In an address
on March % to the National Civil
Liberties Clearing House, Wofford
said that the New Frontier de-
mands new strategies and warned
that Negroes must guard against
tendency TO prefer to lose long,
loud fight for q congressional civil
rights bill rather than to win a
quiet steady campaign for effective
executive action
"Wofford had in mind the evo-
luton to advance Negro rights, 4
less stringent organisation with
the capacity to maintain varied
pressures on al the executive agen-
cies and keep officials and the pub
lice informed on the status Of the
struggle for equality.
"Negro leaders suspect strongly
that the initiative for the two
speeches came from the President
himself. Both Hatcher and Wof-
ford work in fairly close associa-
ton with the Chief Executive and
it is considered unlikely that the
two men would have taken such .
controversial and similar tack with
out the Presidents approval.
saThe current tension is height
ened by 4 disagreement between
the White House and the NAACP
over the timing Of new push for
civil rights legislation. The Demo-
cratic platform included . call for
further Legislation and Sen. Joseph
s Clark (D-Pa.) and Rep. Emanu-
81 Celler tDAN.Y.) have drafted .
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