United States Attorney General Francis Biddle, addressing a dinner of the Liberal Party tonight at the Hotel Comodore, emphasized that more intensified measures must be taken to combat racial hatred in the United States.
The most certain test by which one judges whether a country is really free, he said, is the amount of seourity enjoyed by minorities. “We have met that test,” he continued, “but that is not enough. Racial hatreds have not disappeared, and the cruel discriminations of race and color and religion continue here in our own democracy, even as we fight to overthrow a system in Germany based on the exploitation of these discriminations.”
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