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“of & petition to fres. 4 ‘ —— aes Back of all the controversy ] Dr. Medford Evans is a paid consultant for ; the national office of the Citizens’ Council. In .= this letter to THE NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN he 4 defends the council’s billboard attacks on Mar- i" tin: Luther King, and defends the policies of b. the council, is situated in the Cumberland Mountains near Monteagie, Tenn. between Chattanooga and Nashville. It Is headed by Myles Horton and has been in- volved in several 2 affillations of persons chn- nected with 1%.” Then Times reporter Sitton went on to aay, "Some observ- aelticsinn eT e FL Bis ers said thé affiliation controver- |. giex because of the Political | | “OCH Dr, King's veracity, and beck of the concern over the billboards, is the basic ques-. tion of the nature of his rela- tionship with communism. The Hberal attitude seems to be Ki that this question must not be raised, much less answered. The thoughtful and informed eltizen, however, cannot avoid raising it. Anthony Lewis ce- orte: in the New York imes Nov. 20. 1964, “Tt was learned today that Mr. Hoover also had asid during the in- terview"—iIn which he had called King the most notorious liar in the country—“that Dr. King had Communist connec- tions.” Mr. ‘Hoover did not _ specify the connections, but ft seems unlikely that he was Making it all ‘up, and some of King’s Communist connec- Sobell. convicted along with * the Rosenbergs of ‘wartime. espionage, whose case became.; a Communist cause ceiehre, : Another petition signed by - urged « pardon for Jun- } fus Scales, the North Carctina ; Communist violator of the: Smith Act, This informatian - i secnere eS. was carried in the August %, - 1961 tssue of “New America,” * a Socialist publication. - : Foreign Policy . mate Weert, vet ne Com.” ¢ on fore licy, the UPI reported on October ; 10, 1961 that King had urged admission of Red China to the | , United Nations, and Allen and ‘ Scott reported in early Decem- ber 1964 that King had wired © President Johnaon to demand . a halt to ald to Congoless Pre- - King's organization with tions can fi westiona of prestige for the . . m " conference. hey econtended His Assoclates guid the columnists, “after the ; _ that because of the delicacy of resident authorized the use. @ the racial problem and High- His persona] and profes- Of U.S. planes to drop Belgian ‘ | dander's controversial status, sional eescciations heve in- Paratroopers on Stanleyville > ' it would be difficult now for cluded Bayard Rustin. Hunter to rescue hundreds of white - Southern whites of Hberal or. Pitts O'Dell, siias Jack H. hostages in rebel hands.” There. Dr. Medford Evans are ae Guotes Shakespeare moderate persuasion may a — fair. The school at et a Wa ee peal for financiai .. slened by Myles questioned but there is no question that Dr. King’s asso- clation with Highlander has not been « brief or trivial af- Monteagie was!closed down shortly after the above dispatch appeared, but activity continued from an address in Knoxville called “Highlander Center.” An ap- support Horton under : date of May 15, 1963 speaks a DB tt ee te EEE te o? “the Hichlander moderate persuasion to deal; with the conference.” The ac- curacy of this. estimate of Southern whites of liberal or ! ODell, and Car), Bréden—all fMportant figired In the Com- munist movement in this coun- try, More famous Communist associates of King are Ahmed Ban Tralin dhe #2——- an APS. 7til DClia, WIE AVE WIC LOL of-Algerie. and Kwame Nkru- mah, the “Saviour of Ghana. When Nkrumah waa instslled at the helm in Accra, King was there on the platform with his friend. When Hen Bella came to the United States in October 1962, he saw John Kennedy in the White House and Martin Luther King in the Barclay hotel In New York. To show the peck- ing order, perbapr, King [changed the time of hia ap ° Vaca like a Phoenix rising {pointment with Ben Bella, and > from the ashes,” and claims {the latter accepted the chang:. My source is the Harlem edl- have been few clearer choices ! between Communists and antl Communists than that be- tween the Stanleyville “rebels” | and Tshombe. King chose the — TOMMUDISLS. : I appreciate this space in { suming as I write that T shali ! get it} I have not used much * of it to defend thse Citizens : Council, Actually, I thought j your attack on us lacked lus- ter. You raised a little doubt © as to whether I really have a ; Ph.D. from Yale. I do, but IT! don't see that it matters very | much, 7 ” What matters more Is that’ you negiscted the substance | ef Or. Henry Garrett's impor- tant remarks on “The Reality.. ", a8 part of the Highiander pro- | 'R * You k h “ th { the Pittsburgh Courier. of Race.” Vou know, the race . fi Era cing CiUzen te cehout on points, King seems tur- controversy in this country at ; |, Dow » the South by Dr. Martin Lu- 3.ther King’s Southern Chris- : tan Leadership Conference. ‘and student eivil rights or- * ganizations.” The letterhead ther ahead of Ben Bella today than ever. King makes no secret of his admiration for feaders round the world In the so-cat'ed No, present could pratty well be - ‘summed up by the quastions, i Oo Negroas exist? and, Should | they? Ashley Montague says, | they don’t exist, not ‘wars of national liberation, ‘jrealty; it's all in your mind,” . with which the “Negro revolu-'Lyndon Johnson says, They dof tion” in the United States may exist, but they eught net to. 4 be classed. is #0 clatsod by The Citizens’ Gouncil says they: -~ 4 hebtiee hy dn evict and thaw aunht ta tha Communists. THst is Wry Se SaIs i, Onc fney sugni te they support it. It is so classed continue to exist. Or. Garret - by the Citizens’ Council, That supported the firat ef these : la why we eppose it, propesitions with weight of . Besides his aexsoclations-- scientific evidenge; whois’ and ‘those with Rustin an] American tradition supports O'Del} could well he the sub- the second with. respect fer : carries the name of “Rev. ” Martin Luther King Jr.” as * one of the “Highlander Spon- 4. sors.” ‘ 7 % Just how derogatory the i Highlander association may be te Dr. King remains a mat- r ter of opinion, but what lil ac- : cords with the saintly image of him Is that he himsatf should undertake to contract f hour an association |ject of a sepsrate articlea— human diversity. , which on the record is spread | King bas put into “the file" a Your chief complaint against c, ever five or six years, and to|record of signing Commun‘stus seems to ba our “air of petitions and aupporting the secrecy.” We just have that Communist line on iniportant air, don't we? But really you issues of foreign policy. The suggest no secrets darker thar . Communist “Worker” of Nov.the number of our members, 27, 1960 listed King as signerand the identity of ifdividuals minimize. the importence of i that association when on the ‘record it Involved coliabora- (ticoocet the top ethelon on policy and pregram. | . . eet oon »