HYRC Disclaims HLU as Evasive; Blasts Sparkman

A Young Republican spokesman yesterday termed the Liberal Union's defense of the Democratic civil rights action "evasive," and intellectually dishonest.

Edmond R. Schroeder '53, president of the HYRC, who earlier this week challenged the HLU to justify liberal support of the Stevenson-Sparkman ticket on the basis of its civil rights position, charged that its reply consisted of "a shotgun blast at Eisenhower, Nixon, and myself, and completely evaded the issue."

"Their defense was to cite the party's civil rights plank which since 1932 has contained only empty promises," he began. "This is an excellent example of the intellectual dishonesty with which the HLU Continually insults the intelligence of the Harvard community," Schroeder added.

Schroeder quoted Sparkman, "Let us never for one moment be fooled into thinking that we can depend on Republican help to defeat these measures (civil rights)." "And the earnest Democrats want to make him president of the Senate," Schroeder added.