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the heritage of a benign Danish regime, at least since the 1848 proclamation
abolishing slavery.
I myself was born in the Islands under the Danish flag. I can attest from
my own childhood, as well as from the memories and anecdotes of the older inhabit-
ants, that relations between the races have been harmonious, based on mutual
respect and self-respect, and reflecting the simple and fundamental moral pre-
cept which recognizes the equal humanity and dignity of all men.
Notwithstanding this harmonious past and tradition, we came, in the Virgin
Islands, to an awareness that under the demands of an expanding and increasingly
complex society legislation was an appropriate and desirable means of assuring
continued achievement of the goal of good human relations.
For us these complexities arose out of the increasing awareness of the
attractiveness of our Islands, their equable climate and natural beauty, first
as a retirement haven and second as a tourist attraction.
We feared, and I regret to say that we had reason to fear, that attitudes
and techniques of racial discrimination would be imported from the Mainland.
We have sought to prevent the cancer of bigotry from taking root. And
whenever it has manifested itself we have taken prompt corrective action, with-
out hesitation or equivocation.
And so in the 1940's the Virgin Islands legislators passed the first of
its anti-discrimination ordinances.
In 1950, before the first large tourist hotel opened for business, the first
of our strong civil rights laws was passed. At my request, the law was completely
revised, strengthened and reenacted in 1961. This was primarily preventive medi-
cine.
I do not propose in my remarks to go into the details of our Civil Rights
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