Press Release from the Republican National Committee

News REPUBLICAN NATIONAL release L. Richard Guylay, Public Relations Director NAtional 1625 Eye Street, Northwest Washington 6, the 10 FOR RELEASE TUESDAY, AUGUST 9 AND THEREAFTER A progress report to the people hailing the achievements of the Eisen- hower Republican Administration in the field of civil rights was rele ased to- day by Val Jo Washington, Director of Minorities for the Republican National Committee. In the report, Mr. Washington said that President Eisenhower's approach on civil rights had been one of action instead of words. "The Republican Party has fulfilled each of its specific promises on civil rights made during the 1952 campaign, said Mr. Washington. "These were published in a pamphlet entitled 'The Republican Party and the Negro' and with the appointment of E. Frederic Morrow to the White House staff, the program of campaign promises to minorities has been fulfilled. President Eisenhower acknowledged receipt of the report in a letter to Mr. Washington in which he said that "the Republican Party has been firm in its insistence that there can be only one class of citizenship and has been effective in its practice of this conviction; thereby it has proved itself, in our day, a vigorous and productive champion of the ideals and purposes of Lincoln." The report stressed the ending of segregation in the Nation's capital, the elimination of bias and jim crow in Federal departments and bureaus, the appointment of Negroes to important Federal positions, the strengthening of the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department which prosecutes violations of civil rights laws, and the enforcement of the non-discriminatory clauses of the Taft-Hartley law. A copy of the report is attached and the text of the President's letter of acknowledgment follows: 11 The White House, Washington August 1, 1955 "Dear Val: "Naturally, every report on the fulfillment in this Administration of Republican pledges made in the campaign of 1952 gives me a great deal of satisfaction. In a special sense, however, your letter on the complete realization of fourteen points presented to the Negro voters of the Nation during that campaign is particularly heartening and gratifying. You relate an achievement which emphatically proves that the unity of the American people is neither a mere political plat- itude nor a purely philosophical concept. (more)