Ray Bliss, Republican national committee chairman, agreed to discuss with New Jersey state and national Republican officials a stalemated inquiry into alleged anti-Semitic and anti-Negro activities of a rightist faction in the New Jersey Young Republican organization, it was reported here today.
The chairman’s office said the meeting would be held in Washington, April 18. Those attending will include Richard Smith, executive director of the State Committee; Mrs. Katherine Neuberger, national committeewoman; and Clark Allen, president of the New Jersey Young Republicans.
The national and state Young Republicans in New Jersey have been locked in a dispute over the transcript of a secret meeting conducted by the national YR office in Trenton, last February. The national and state probes stemmed from charges that anti-Semitic and anti-Negro song-fests were held at YR parties during the state convention last May, and at the national convention in Miami last June, by the rightist faction, self-named as “Rat Finks.”
The state YR investigators held two hearings in March, at which they heard testimony that defamatory songs were sung by Rat Finks at both conventions and at private gatherings. Introduced at the hearings were copies of mimeographed song-sheets containing such words as “kikes” and “niggers.”
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