Evening star., 1961-09-27

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u. S. Route 40 restaurateurs
by a White House and a Mary
land State saide paved the way
for current efforts to open
restaurants to 'Afro-ASian dip
lomats.
For the last several weeks,
the two men have been quietly
dropping in at restaurants
along U. s. Route 40. They are
John YoShino, a staff member
of the Presidents Committee
on Equal Employment Oppor-
tunity, who is ION loan" to the
White House from the Labor
Department, and Douglas Sands
of the Maryland Commission
on International Problems and
Relations.
Confidentially and quietly
they have been talking to the
reStaurateurs, sounding them
out on their feelings toward
serving non-whites. Mr.. Yo-
shino is of Japanese descent
and Mr.. Sands is a Negro.
The two chose some OF the
leading" restaurants on the
highway - those expected to
pave the way for others in
service standards. What they
found was encouraging, but
much more spadework needed
to be done, they concluded.
Series of LuncheOns
So, the State Department is
holding a series of luncheons
and meetings with community
leaders, restaurant operators,
newspaper editors and others
in 80 States.
The second meeting, with
about As Maryland editors, was
held yesterday at the State De-
partment.
Undersecretary of State Ches-
ter Bowles, urged the editors to
support the campaign because
he said, the eyes Of two-thirds
of the human race, colored
peoples, are on the United
States.
Treatment of their diplomats
and treatment of Negro Amer
leans has a profound influence
in their attitudes toward this
country at a time most vital in
its history, he said.
Referring to "the billion
people who have thrown off
the old-style colonialism in the
last Is years." Mr.. Bowles said {:
They know jefferson by
heart and the Declaration of
independence. They deeply ad-
mire the United States, then
come here and run into shat
tering emotional experience"
See Discrimination
The "shattering emotional
experience" which colors their
judgment of this Nation, he
said, is suffering personal racial
discrimination and seeing it
practiced on others of their
color.
Pedro Sanjuan, State Depart
ment deputy chief of protocol,
told the group that the meet
ings were undertaken because
empty apologies Ito the Of
Tended diplomats) didn't get
anywhere"
The racial Snubs have ranged,
he noted, from the "HagerS-
town incident" last April, in
which a Sierra Leone Charge
d'AffaireS was refused service
at restaurant, to denial of q
glass of water to a 7-year-old
son of a diplomat. HagerstoWn
has since made amends to the
Sierra Leonian by feting him
at public dinner.
The facts about the 7-year-
old boy ARE still held in conf
dence," State Department
official said, in difference to
the diplomat" But it was
learned that the boy is the son
of an African official and that
the incident occurred at a
Route 40 restaurant last Sep
tember 2.
Route 40 is the main road
Travelled to United Nations
headquarters in New York by
Washington-based foreign dig
nitaries.
Incidents such as these led
to the missionary work" un-
dertaken by Mr.. Yoshino and
Mr.. Sands. Their work, in turn,
led them to the conclusion that
meetings such as we're held yes
terday are essential to the sue
cess of the campaign.
Some of the owners said they
personally would like to serve