The Bermuda Recorder

              saturday january 26 1957 the bermuda recorder page five your weekly feature page tuskegee sifts 48 nations signed up louisiana naacp decides to bare membership list tightening the screw in hungary integration atomium to be brussels fair theme baton rouge — the na tional association for the ad vancement of colored people has sidetracked a court battle for its life in louisiana and moved to comply with an old law first used against the ku klux klan tuskegee ala — south erners during 1956 began to deal with the practical task of adjusting public activities to the principle of non-segre gation according to tuske gee institute self-respect among negroes the report said many white persons showed dignity and forbearance in changing cir custances despite their lack of enthusiasm for nonsegrega tion by jules menken the rods the forces linking them for friends of freedom the news coming out of hungary is bad two statei_ie___s in the past few days summarise the position one is a communique about a meeting in budapest from january lst to 4th be tween khrushchev malenkov and the puppet leaders of four soviet satellites the other is a declaration of policy by the puppet kadar government of hungary which is dated january 5th plete the story soviet troops are not to leave hungary — as all true hungarian patriots demand but are to remain at least for the present while discussions about their future when these take place seem more likly to be concrned with sanctioning their presence as in poland rather than ar ranging for their withdrawal it is true that this is not quite the whole of the kadar declaration the declaration a huge steel red-and-sphere arrangement — representing the atomic structure of an iron crystal and symbolizing man's ability to mold the atom to benefit all humanity will dominate the scene of the brussels world's fair of 1958 its nine spheres each fifty nine feet in diameter will house exhibits by various nations of peaceful uses of atomic energy the spheres constructed of ultra-light steel will be connected by tubular passages containing elevators and escalators the changing tactics came just before the dec 30 dead line for filing 1956 member ship lists with the secretary of state as required under the 1924 law implementation o the non segregation principle of law has in some instances been impressive at the same time in other quarters rejection of the principle defiance of fed eral authority and criticism of the supreme court . . . have sometimes been awesome in its 43d annual report on developments in race relations the negro school said there was deep-south resistance to any change of segregation patterns across the nation however citizens of almost every * community refused to respond for long or in large numbers to inflammatory ap peals or to incitement to violence details of the atomium as previously the naacp com plained that such a list would subject its members to econ omic pressure and possibly even personal violence it is called and other aspects of the brussels uni versal and international exhi bition were announced yester day by maurice iweins d'eeckhoutte cousul general of belgium among other major attrac tions at the fair major attrac tions at the fair will be the world art center and the international hall of science the center will contain art masterpieces loaned to the fair from various countries and grouped according to artistic concepts of man's relationship with the universe the hall of science will house displays in physics chemistry and biology the khrushchev - malenkov visit to budapest the sum nion.ng tiiere of representa tives from czchoslovakia ru mania and bulgaria and the meeting of all these men with the kadar regime are acts which obviously symbolise soviet overlordship and which warn the peoples of all the east european satellites that communist tyranny and the soviet yoke are not to be shaken off easily does make concessions — where they cannot be avoided it undertakes to modify the cur tent five-year plan — which could not be fulfilled anyway it agrees that peasants may leave collectives — a develop ment which the regime is now too pre-oceupied to stop it promises a higher stand ard of living for the workers — but only until it is ready once more to go in for large schemes of capital investment yardstirk revised no explanation was given for the reversal however it could end a lengthy court fight which the n.a.a.c.p had no assur ance it could win the institute said some 208 school districts iu eight states desegregated schools in 1956 from 1952 to 1956 negro vot ing registration in nine south ern states rose by 210,182 to 1,118,786 it quoted the south ern regional council as say ing the report released by dr l h foster tuskegee presi dent said the situation evolving at the end of 1956 may facilitate early progress toward the democratic ideal forty-eight nations includ ing the united states russia and other countries from both sides of the iron curtain and seven international and supra national organizations includ ing the united nations red cross and the council of europe will participate the fair the first world's fair iu nineteen years will be open april 17 through oct 19 the antisegtegation group has been under state court ban since last march last month louisiana ap peals court ruled it could not consider an appeal of state in junction since the east was switched to a federal court before the order was handed down citizen activity urged it • said this was based on repeated court decisions and the emergence also of a national conscience sensitive to human rights for all ameri can citizens . . ." the race relations report re placed an annual report on lynchings of negroes when the institute said in 1954 that lynchings had become so un common they were no longer an adequate yardstick for the southern racial situation the brussels fair thirty first world's fair since the first was held at london in 1851 will rise on 500 acres of ileysel park four miles from the center of the city the united states and russia have been allotted the largest tracts six and one-half acre each and their pavilions will face each other across an esplanade in the foreign sec the kadar declaration of policy is an altogether brazen document it attempts first to allege that the hungarian rising last autumn was not a revolution against communist tyranny and soviet domina tion but a counter-revolution in the sense that it sought to restore the rule of a few great landowners and their friends the declaration then claims that we annihilated the main armed forces of the counter revolution in a few days and routed their remnants a british communist jour nalist peter fryer who has since been expelled from the british communist party for telling the truth about the hungarian revolution which he saw as an eye-witness dis poses of these claims in a dispatch from hungary written on november 11 and published subsequently in his book hungarian tragedy london 1956 dennis dobson 5 shil lings fryer writes : if soviet intervention was necessary to put down counter-revolution how is it to be explained that some of the fiereest resistance of all last week was in the working-class districts of ujpest in th e north of buda pest and csepel in the south — both pre-war strongholds of the communist party or how is the declaration of the workers of the famous steel town of sztalinvaros to be ex plained that they would de fend their socialist town the plant and houses they had built with their own hands against the soviet invasion which impoverish the masses after the soviet fashion all of this is in the best soviet tradition for lenin when he found that he had to ease the shoe somewhere conceded the relative economic freedoms of what was called nep the new economic policy while he and after him stalin consolidated the political dic tatorship which stalin de veloped into the dreadful despotism of his police state the budapest meeting of the soviet leaders and their satel lite puppets and the kadar declaration of policy — which may well have been written and issued on khrushchev's di rect orders — are sombre facts the truth is that there has been no radical change in the balance of forces in hungary ultimate power remains di vided betweeen soviet troops on the one hand and the pat riot alliance of student work ers and peasants on the other there has been no general re sumption of work industrial activity in budapest remains stagnant the miners are still strongly entrenched and pro duce only enough coal for what they regard as essential needs all this is very well known to the kadar regime and the soviet leaders the truth is in dicated indeed by a very simple fact the kadar regime has now agreed that the united nations may send observers to hungary but they are to come only in the spring conditions must be very bad indeed if the kadar regime needs all that time to tidy things up before free-world vistiors see them a p tureaud na.a.c.p attorney said this nullified the injunction and the new or leans branch held at least one meeting but support for the prin ciple of nonsegregation is now delayed in many quarters be cause of uncertainties and misunderstandings which sur round the task of implementa tion full participation of all citizens in community ac tivities was urged 360 feet high the eight states in which schools were desegregated were delaware maryland kentucky missouri west vir ginia oklahoma texas and tennessee the nine on which voter figures were given were alabama arkansas florida georgia louisiana north carolina tennessee texas and virginia the 360-foot-high atomium theme structure of the brus sels fair will be the counter part of the trylon and peri sphere of the new york world's fair of 1930-'40 the spheres represent atoms and 300 members listed but attorney general jack gremillion said the injunction still was in effect and on dec tion ! mm continued on page 6 intricate political maneuvers and sharply contested legal actions were numerous dur ing 1956 the report included these findings under the headings of compliance and non compliance with integration : education ---""" ~""*-^ the 14-page report said there were instances of violence and economic pres sure intended to maintain long - standing relationships based on the assignment of au inferior status to negroes whitest mm w gives i _________________________________________! compliance — voluntary de segregation of elementary and secondary schools in louis ville ky was called notable and school boards upheld in tegration in anderson county tennessee where clinton is located and at hoxie ark federal court actions general ly supported integration al though a federal district judge in dallas texas said schools need not integrate im mediately self respect gain seen i despite their claim gen erally to be law abiding some organizations sought to intimi date to persecute and to promote violence against negro and white exponents of democracy the report did not name the organizations later it said the most aggressive organization for the preservatiton of segrega tion was the white citizens council which was declaring itself committed to th e use of legal means of pressure and intimidation . . ." www __. 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