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Summer Session Kansan
Tuesday, July 2, 1963
Senator Calls Rights Plan "Monstrous"
By William Theis and John A. Calhoun
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Sen. Richard B. Russell, D-Ga., said today President Kennedy's legislative program will not be helped by his civil rights proposals but southern Democrats will not wage retaliatory "all-out war" against it.
The southern leader, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he thinks the United States now must wait for "some overt act" to justify a U.S. military "clean-up" which he felt should have been launched against Cuba last October.
Russell said in an interview that neither recognition of a Cuban government-in-exile nor a "Pacific blockade" of Cuba, both urged by Republicans, is practical at this stage. He said the blockade would be a "belligerent act" without the "reason" which the Soviet missile threat provided last fall.
"I THOUGHT THEN we should have gone in and cleaned it up, and I haven't changed my opinion," the soft spoken senator said. "Now, we haven't got the same reason . . . but I'm in favor of keeping every pressure on there which we can."
The Georgian, relaxed behind a desk piled high with working papers, disclosed that to him the controversial public accommodations section of Kennedy's civil rights bill is "not the most offensive of the proposals." He singled out for bitter denunciation what he termed the "genocide provision" to authorize a federal cut-off of funds when racial discrimination is practiced in the states.
Russell called this the "most viciously sadistic, monstrous suggestion" since reconstruction days.
THE 65 YEAR-OLD southerner also said that:
—It is too early to predict how well the 1964 GOP presidential ticket will do in the south. Kennedy has "lost a number of his admirers" there because of his civil rights stand and Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Arizona., is "head and shoulders above any other Republican in southern popularity" because of his conservatism.
—NATO is doing "about as well as it could" and Americans should not be too hasty in criticizing French president Charles de Gaulle. De Gaulle may prove to have "rendered a service to the free world," Russell said, adding that he fears De Gaulle's distrust of Russia.
—He is still a "great admirer" of Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara. He feels the secretary will "learn from experience" in the current TFX Aircraft inquiry and accord his military chiefs more future consideration.
—Development of an adequate airlift will make possible a "substantial" reduction of U.S. troops overseas in coming years. He paid tribute to Kennedy for understanding this. Planes now on order are "about double" what they were three years ago, Russell said.
—HE WOULD agree to an "absolute cessation" of nuclear testing if Russia would accept an enforceable on-site inspection, although he feels this is "very dangerous to our country." Russell doubts Russia would now go this far.
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Q—Do you believe that if the public accommodations is dropped from the president's civil rights bill, or is greatly modified, an all-out clash and full filibuster might be avoided in the senate?
A—Personally, that's not the most offensive section of the bill to me at all.
O—Which is?
A—The Genocide Provision—and the other which gives Bobby Kennedy the power to go around filing suits at his whim . . . the Genocide Provision (Federal funds cut-off authority) would starve out all the poor people of the south because possibly the people of the south don't accept ideas the president has . . . he said himself this is a power the president shouldn't have.
Some of those who are favoring it used to cry "McCarthyism" . . . and guilt by association. This is guilty by residence, cutting off old age assistance, aid to dependent children and the like, all in a geographic area. This is the most viciously sadistic,
monstrous suggestion made since the reconstruction. Even in the reconstruction era they did not suggest that the blow fall on Negroes. This falls on Negro and white alike. This can only lead the country to totalitarianism.
Q-What do you see ahead, if no legislation is enacted which would reasonably satisfy demands of Negroes?
A-I DON'T KNOW. The largest single bloc of votes is Negro. I once didn't believe that, but I'm about convinced the Negro vote is the balance of power in states with a large number of electors. As long as that exists, there will be agitation . . . I'm not under any illusions that you can satisfy them with this legislation. There are three Negro groups vying for leadership, not to say for contributions. If you were to approve the package one group submitted, the other would then have to disapprove it. They'll say Kennedy has done nothing. They'll still be saying it when he goes out of office even though they will have been voting for him.
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