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Show Demo National Committee Praises Party Chairman The Democratic National Committee, Com-mittee, over the protests of its southern members, adopted a resolution praising Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler for his forthright statements on civil rights and where the party stands in regard to the civil rights question. The resolution lauding the national na-tional chairman was adopted by a vote of 89 to 15, wtih only the southern members voting against it. The possibility that southerners southern-ers might try to censure Butler or even oust him from his major party position had loomed over the four-day series of meetings of top party officials in Washington. Wash-ington. In other action the Democratic advisory council called for effective ef-fective federal and state legislation legisla-tion action to reopen schools and prevent other schools from closing clos-ing in the struggle over racial integration. The advisory council's recommendations, recom-mendations, which also included a number of other proposals, has been labeled a "Democratic State of the Union Message" on foreign and domestic policies. It was made public about a month in advance of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's annual state of the union address and was calculated cal-culated to put the Republican president on the spot. |