THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS TAKES OVER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100190064-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 14, 2003
• Sequence Number: 64
• Publication Date: December 22, 1957
• Content Type: NSPR

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the Communist design to destroy the unity ill Political circles in Virginia.
. and prestige of this country. "Unfortunately," he said, "there are many
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By Benjamin Muse ern neighbor. Truly, the spirit of Christmas
the Deep South} Citizens' Council routine MEANWHILE, THE segregation question
?? :about the NAACP and the Supreme Court was discussed by one well-known political
in an address to the Richmond Bar Associa- leader in a tone and spirit which is unfor-
tion on Nov. 29. He said, :
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among other, things, that Robert Whitehead is a man of no little influ-
the Communists are "seek
ence in this
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Ing to make a tool of the eight years he has loomed as a gubernatorial
National Association for
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poss
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ty. 'Early in 1955, he launched what
the Advancement of Col looked like a long-range campaign for the
ored People in a program Democratic nomination for to destroy our form of governor, but
he dro
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en the wave of segregation.
Government ..." it hysteria made his prospects seem hope.
One must wonder if it
I his fellow advocates of re, Hssuciauon of University
Muse Women, Whitehead made some of the wisest
sistance to Federal au-
happy in a wo miseries. Nor sh
one who could
free this Chri
need to be eith
callous or vergi.
becilic. If we ar
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