BOARD OF DIRECTORS Ernest Angell in CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION Mrs. Katrina McCormick Barnes ty Jonathan B. Bingham Prof. Paul F. Brissenden 170 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK 10, N. Y. Mrs. Dorothy Dunbar Bromley Carl Carmer Richard S. Childs ORegon 5-5990 Norman Cousins Edward J. Ennis Morris L. Ernst Rev. John Haynes Holmes Arthur Garfield Hays Jonathan B. Bingham John F. Finerty Chairman, Board of Directors General Counsel Secretary H. William Fitelson James Lawrence Fly Roger N. Baldwin Morris Ernst B. W. Huebsch Osmond K. Fraenkel Chairman, National Committee General Counsel Treasurer Walter Frank Varian Fry Patrick Murphy Malin George E. Rundquist Herbert M. Levy Alan Reitman Jeffrey E. Fuller Prof. Walter Gellhorn Staff Counsel Public Relations Director Arthur Garfield Hays Executive Director Assistant Director Membership Director August Heckscher Rev. John Haynes Holmes B. W. Huebsch Rev. John Paul Jones Dorothy Kenyon June 9. 15 Corliss Lamont Prof. Eduard C. Lindeman Benjamin F. MacLaurin Merle Miller Hon. Herbert H. Lehman Herbert R. Northrup Merlyn S. Pitzele Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs Elmer Rice Whitney North Seymour Senate Office Building Norman Thomas Washing on, D.C* William L. White C. Dickerman Williams Raymond L. Wise Lear Senator Lehrie.ii! NATIONAL COMMITTEE Thurman Arnold Bishop James Chamberlain Baker The A.O.L.U. has Ion-; advocated statehood for Alaska as a means Roger N. Baldwin Francis Biddie of giving full liberty and self-government to our fellow-Americans of Prof. Edwin M. Borchard Van Wyck Brooks that Territory. With equal vigo we will oppose any effort to use Pearl S. Buck Dr. Henry Seidel Canby Alaskan statehood as a means of undermining or weakening the rights Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers of Alaskan Natives. Among such rights, solemnly pledged "by acts of William Henry Chamberlin Grenville Clark Congress and in the treaty "by which we acquired Alaskan Sovereignty* Prof. Henry Steele Commager Morris L. Cooke are the rights of the natives to "be protected in their possessions Prof. George S. Counts Prof. Robert E. Cushman and their right, assured "by federal corporate charters, to control Elmer Davis John Dos Passos their own l?nds and their own affairs. Melvyn Douglas Sherwood Eddy Thomas H. Eliot Walter T. Fisher America will "be deeply shamed if these rights do not receive the Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick same full measure of protection in the Alaskan Organic Act that they Lloyd K. Garrison Dean Christian Gauss have received in every other statehood act passed "by the Congress Dean Charles W. Gilkey Sen. Frank P. Graham and signed "by the President during the past 70 years and more. Even Earl G. Harrison Marvin C. Harrison the pending Hawaiian Statehood Bill honors this tradition "by including Quincy Howe Dr. Robert M. Hutchins special provisions guaranteeing native possessions (Hawaiian Home Lands) Dr. Charles S. Johnson against interference "by the future State of Hawaii, Dr. Mordecai W. Johnson Saburo Kido Benjamin H. Kizer Dr. John A. Lapp It is a high and honored American tradition that makes the right Prof. Harold D. Lasswell Mrs. Agnes Brown Leach of self-government of e, new state depend upon its willingness to respect Max Lerner Prof. Robert Morss Lovett the rights of the most helpless minorities within Its "borders. 2Jhat Prof. Robert S. Lynd Prof. Archibald MacLeish American tradition has world significance. It ought not to "be abandoned John P. Marquand in the year 2b95O» — n°t even in the name of self-government for Alaskans William Mauldin Bishop Francis J. McConnell Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn A. J. Muste we have your assurance that you will do what you can to uphold Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam this American tradition of freedom and tolerance "by protecting the civil Rt. Rev. Edward L. Parsons James G. Patton rights of our First Amerleans? Prof. Max Radin A. Philip Randolph Will Rogers, Jr. Elmo Roper John Nevin Sayre HERBERT H. LEHMAN PAPERS Rt. Rev. William Scarlett Arthur M. Schlesinqer, Jr. y. PUBLIC LIBRARY COLLI Joseph Schlossberg Odell Shepard Robert E. Sherwood Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver Lillian E. Smith Edward J. Sparling Jay B. Hash Patrick Murphy Malin Raymond Swing Chairman, AC LIT Indian Executive Director • irman, Mrs. Dorothy Tilly Aubrey Williams Civil Rights Committee Board of Directors L. Hollingsworth Wood Dr. William Lindsay Young AFFILIATED COMMITTEES in Sixteen Cities Incorporated — Founded 1920.