President, Stevenson Pledge to Keep Bias out of Elections

Both President Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson pledged yesterday that they would oppose all bigotry and intolerance in the current Presidential campaign. These views were made in statements to the National Conference of Christians and Jews, which had solicited them and which will circulate them throughout the country to discourage the introduction of race hatred in the election campaign.

There is “no such thing as just a little bigotry, just a little hate,” the President said, and national unity demands the “keenest guard against divisive propaganda, the sternest watch against divisive prejudice.” Mr. Stevenson asserted that intolerance and prejudice have “no place at any time in our national life” and such practices are particularly unfortunate at this time when the world is watching the United States for proof of “our belief in the brotherhood of man.”