Although admitting that anti-Semitism and bigotry in the United States are “at an all-time high,” a spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union today told the House Post Office Committee, which is considering the Lynch Bill to ban race propaganda from the mails, that the organization is opposite to legislation to combat intolerance.
Queried by Rep. Chet Holifield, Calif. Dem., as to whether he did not believe that it was the job of Congress to do something about the spread of hate propaganda, Clifford Foster, staff counsel of the ACLU, replied that he did not favor government action except in the case of “overt action.” Rep. Holifield charged that the persons who spread racial propaganda were behind the Detroit and Boston disturbances, and stated that he felt that Congress should not wait for further riots before acting.
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