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ee Daca | | f ee - AS we eR Nenemics of civil lib rtios--nlwey3 the most rrbid rceelsts-- by reorffirming its policies of tAnti- Communism! +nd 'Non- Coop rcs tion with Comminist-Controlled Unions.! YEyon so, it is immortent te note thet the pro- cocdings of this Convention wore marxcdly free of red- baiting, vither from the pictform or from the floor. In sharp contrest to the 1954 -Prlics Convention--which featured sieylont cntt-Communism from the keynote cddress of Channing Tobins to the ecneludine spceches of Reaiph Bunche end Welter Whitc--not onc nations1 ic der of the #ssoctation | medu a roed-beiting sp ceh at Jtlentic City; snd there wes extremcly little of it from the deélvgstes. Pais fret, coupled with the Resolution Cormfilttects gol! perate onission of rc recom- mondetion for on-coopers tion with the Ntionnl Negro Labor Council, suggests thet tac N.4a.2.0.P. lerdership my be toking »- sceond look ct the contr: diction betwern its com redly cdyvenecd position on civil libertics rnd its endorsement of the Bie Lic of <nti-Comuunicnm..... "Ag with cortein key questions in the civil liberties ficld, the Convention did net diccuss3 or teke ny ection on such conercte issucs in the fieht for penee ha the situctiona cround Formess:, the sestin’ of Chinn in the United Nations, the unifiertion of Gerrans or the benning of nuclicr weepons. , "One gets the fimworetcion thet ih. N.A.A.C.P. Is Tollewing 2 tevutious! ind pethcp dirortuaist policy in thss¢ fivlds. Whersrs the Associetion -sierts © bold end independent position in the fight for civil rights--which it properly rogerds rs its mein businesi--it -ets with fseming defercnee to the lisenhowor J.dministretion on qucstions of civil liberty «nd forsign policy, especially the latter. Where speeiel 'Nopro intcrests! ere ctireetly invoived, N.A.A.C.P. tends to nssurt edveneed policics, evon eritical of the Acministr: tion. But on meny other thot? iscsucs it tonds te remain silent, or to m-ke general gestures of obcisrnee to th. povers thet he-slergcely 'for the reco:d,! "The 46th Annual Convention of N.A.A.C.P. mot in the contuxt of political developments on the world and