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Dr. Ralph Bunche, UN undersecretary for special political affairs, spoke to the masses on May 8 at the University of California (Berkeley) on a special political affair that lies very close to the Bunche heart. “I note that Sen. Barry Goldwater is again decrying civil rights demonstrations and is against people taking their protests into the street. His anxiety would be less dubious and less politically motivated if he just once would express real compassion for the millions of Americans who are daily denied and deprived of social justice only because of their color. He calls the United Nations presumptuous and, I suppose, seen from the nineteenth century, it is. He obviously is against civil rights, resents this century and refuses to recognize it.” SpecPolAffSec, who apparently is unaware of Goldwater’s numerous statements about Negro rights, went on to decry civil rights demonstrations in Cyprus, and implied that the UN didn’t have enough cash to take care of Turks and Greeks who take their protests into the street.

On April 30, the Fort Wayne News Sentinel carried a full-page advertisement “prepared and paid for by the Indiana State AFL-CIO [and] Region 3 UAW Citizenship Council” entitled: “It’s Time to Think.” It was an emotional plea to the people of Indiana to reject Governor Wallace of Alabama in the Presidential primary in that state because (among other things) “he [Wallace] nurtures the philosophy of ultra-conservatism, in the South, that gave aid and comfort to such characters as General Walker and Lee Harvey Oswald, who was alleged [sic] to have assassinated President Kennedy.” One-third of the citizens of Indiana, having thoughtfully considered this and other thoughtful appeals of the kind, voted for George Wallace, perhaps because his was the least hysterical voice in town.

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Dr. Ralph Bunche, UN undersecretary for special political affairs, spoke to the masses on May 8 at the University of California (Berkeley) on a special political affair that lies very close to the Bunche heart. “I note that Sen. Barry Goldwater is again decrying civil rights demonstrations and is against people taking their protests into the street. His anxiety would be less dubious and less politically motivated if he just once would express real compassion for the millions of Americans who are daily denied and deprived of social justice only because of their color. He calls the United Nations presumptuous and, I suppose, seen from the nineteenth century, it is. He obviously is against civil rights, resents this century and refuses to recognize it.” SpecPolAffSec, who apparently is unaware of Goldwater’s numerous statements about Negro rights, went on to decry civil rights demonstrations in Cyprus, and implied that the UN didn’t have enough cash to take care of Turks and Greeks who take their protests into the street.

On April 30, the Fort Wayne News Sentinel carried a full-page advertisement “prepared and paid for by the Indiana State AFL-CIO [and] Region 3 UAW Citizenship Council” entitled: “It’s Time to Think.” It was an emotional plea to the people of Indiana to reject Governor Wallace of Alabama in the Presidential primary in that state because (among other things) “he [Wallace] nurtures the philosophy of ultra-conservatism, in the South, that gave aid and comfort to such characters as General Walker and Lee Harvey Oswald, who was alleged [sic] to have assassinated President Kennedy.” One-third of the citizens of Indiana, having thoughtfully considered this and other thoughtful appeals of the kind, voted for George Wallace, perhaps because his was the least hysterical voice in town.