Ex-HLU Head Scores HYRC On Minorities

Walter C. Carrington '52 1L, leader in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and former Liberal Union president, last night accused the president of the HYRC of "hypocrisy and moral double-bookkeeping" for his attack on the Democratic party's civil rights record.

Replying to the challenge of Edward R. Schroeder '53, HYRC president, that the Liberal Union explain its support of the Democratic civil rights record, Carrington said the party's civil rights plank was "the most forthright statement on the subject ever adopted by a major political party." He contrasted the plank to the Republican's "Splinter" in civil rights, which he called "weaker than its 1948 or 1944 stands."

Carrington, who is national vice-chairman of Students for Stevenson, called Republican nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower a "Johnny-come-lately" in civil rights. According to Carrington, Eisenhower testified before Congress in favor of segregation in the armed forces, and refused to lend his name while president of Columbia University to a campaign to provide better job oppertunities for New York City Negroes.

Carrington scoffed at Schroeder's remarks about "Republican achievement" in the civil rights field. He said New York's Republican Ives-Quinn bill was "typical" of Republican efforts, because Republican legislatures had stified FEPC bills in California, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, and Michigan.

Carrington said the civil rights record of Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee John Sparkman was no different from that of his opposite, Richard M. Nixon, even though "it is not political suicide to champion civil rights in California, as it is in Alabama."