Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower told a press conference here today that he opposed discrimination and would fight for fair employment practices but that he did not believe in a compulsory Federal fair employment practices commission. Asked his views on FEPC., the candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination said:
“F.E.P.C.- when you use those initials, you are proposing a sort of shotgun question. I have no objection whatever to stating my unalterable support of fairness among all American citizens. I believe that insofar as the Federal Government has any constitutional authority in this field, all of its policies should adhere firmly and without any qualification to that principle. I do not believe that we can cure all of the evils in men’s hearts by law. I believe we can do more by leadership and by getting states to do so than by making it a Federal or a compulsory thing. I shall never cease to fight for it.”
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