Link With Hatred in South
Moscow TASS International Service in English 1404 GMT 24 November 1963--L
(G. Vasilyev dispatch)
(Text) New York--Prominent leader of the U.S. Negro
movement Martin Luther King writes in an article published today by the New York
HERALD TRIBUNE that the assassination of President Kennedy, no matter who
actually killed him, must be viewed in the context of the atmosphere of violence
and hatred which has been growing in the United States in recent years. We saw
children murdered in a church, people killed from ambush by methods so similar
to President Kennedy's assassination that we must face the fact that we are
dealing with a social disease which, at mortal peril to ourselves, we tried not
to notice.
Martin Luther King's statement is typical of those writers in
American newspapers who did not yield to the anticommunist hysteria they are
trying hard to stir up in the country and realize which circles in the United
States were interested in this heinous crime. Serious commentators regard the
monstrous murder of President Kennedy in the light of the outrages committed by
brutalized racists and the cannibalistic acts of the right ultras which are
continuing to be reported from the southern states.
In an article from Atlanta, Georgia, prominent American
columnist Ralph McGill writes that the brutal assassination of President Kennedy
is the latest harvest of psychopathic hatred. When the news came in about the
attempt on Kennedy and later about his death, McGill relates, the editors of
southern newspapers started receiving anonymous calls, the callers saying with
glee: "The Negro-lover got what he has been asking for. Whoever shot him did a
good deed." McGill recalls the killing of two men during the racist riot in
Oxford when Negro James Meredith was admitted to an "all-white" university, the
killing by a sniper of Medgar Evers, NAACP leader in Mississippi.
Starting with Little Rock, he writes, it was obvious that
dangerous psychopaths would use dynamite and guns against the law. Someone did
dynamite schools in which children were killed. We have grown more and more
accustomed to seeing on the screens of our televisions sets and newsreels faces
contorted with malice of young people and adults shouting monstrous threats full
of hatred of their country and its leaders. All these are pieces of the mosaic
of hatred which poisoned the country to such an extent that in Texas a criminal
murdered the President. McGill notes that extremists not infrequently hold high
posts in the United States and that often great financial forces stand behind
the most extremist organizations.