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Roy Wilkins — Part 6
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The "Daily Worker" on 10-29-56 contained an article
on page 2 entitled, "Roy Wilkins Asks Southern Tour for Soviet
Visitors." The article disclosed that Roy Wilkinsa, NAACP
Executive Secretary, had sent a telegram to Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles urging that an invitation to a Sovtet
delegation to observe elections in the United States, tnclude
Mississippi, Alabama and South Carolina in the itinerary.
According to Wilkins, in order for the delegation to get the
whole story and be ahle to nake meaningful comparisons with
élections in the USSR they would need to observe democracy
at work in the one-party states in the South.
62-191087-A "DW," 10-29-56
(9)
The "Miami Daily News," final edition on 10-29-56,
carried an article entitled: "Whites Can Hurt Selves NAACP
Speaker Asserts." The article commented on the speech made
by Roy Wilkins at a meeting of the Florida Conference of the
NAACP on 10-28-56, Wilkins indicated that activities of the
Florida legislative comnittee investigating the NAACP might
lead to suppression of rights for white people.
61-3176-A, "Miami Datly News”
10, 29f 56 -
(6)
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