NAACP HITS DONOVAN TALK

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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 16, 1999
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• Publication Date: January 1, 1962
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CPYRGHT
NAACP NITS
Donavan
Talk
NEW YORel -Oct. 31. (AP)
York S'tattll-~_,Wl U1 U New
e NAACP ha' e asked
the State chairmen of the
i7emocra;tie and Liberal Parties
to*disavow` what he calls the
misrepresentation of 1: h e i , i
s'arty ~ platform 'p1edgcs" by
on ckvil rights.
Mr. Donovan, R New York
Itorney, is the Demoga?atic-
:beral candid for United
ale .
Slates, Sefiaior. fl is opposin-
S nator Javits, Republican o1
Now York, in next Tuesday's
;c'neral election.
In a -' teIevised debate with,
Senator Javits Sunday night,
Mr- Donovan's comment "thatlstart wholeheartedly with your
he didn't see any need for more organization," and added that
civil rights le;:islation indicatedlhis "fixm support of the
an inexcusable ignorance or, Deixrocrahic-Liberal platform on
isregard of the problem s of l civil rights has been and will
irr - continue to be unqualified."
he party chaurnen u
yesterday
Dr. Eugene Reed of Atnity-
?ille. State president of tkie Na
ional Association for th Ad-
_
ancenient of Colored triple,
dded in the telegrams:
"We can upon the C em-~
c ratie Party and the f.cate'
rberal Party to disavOW his
r srept?esentation of tltet ;,,?,ty
I allorrn pledges."
Camriaigning in Buff lrtst
gilt. Mr. Donovan di hed
telegram to Basilic airman of the New"'~~''orkxc?ity
!NIkACP Political Action . 4),11-
'ttee, saying he regrette "if
eviiy of time last fSti:Ad,.:>
.r ht could 1, ari to a. mid a:
r Cd;l,'Jflg of 11711;
n ie:bl
The wire said his remark in
the deba e "was an answer to
repeated,atternpts by mY Re-
publican dverxy to detract
fro 1 Pre dept icnnedy's maT-
nifieent of the Ox-
ford, Mis si ation."
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