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Show Highlights of Klan Speech WASHINGTON. Oct. J Highlight, in the addr of Juv .. Hugo U Black: I joined the Ku Klux Klan about 15 years ago. I later reatgned. I mvw re)oin4. What appeared then, or what appear now, .on the records of the or gam nation, I do not know. I rwver have ennldr4 and I do not now camlrirr the nn-llrllrd nn-llrllrd rard glveg to me hortly after my nnmlnatlon to th Men-ate Men-ate ae a mrmherhlp of any kind i In the Ku Klut Klan. I nrver Uftrd It. I did not even krep It I hHieve that my record nn a senator refutrn evrry implication or rarml or religious Intolerance. No Mnrds have ever been or will ever be spoken by me, dl-rertly dl-rertly or Indirectly, Indicating that any nativa or foreign-born per eon In our free country ahould or eould be restricted In hie right to wo r hip according to the dictate dic-tate of hlo oonaclenoa. I have no sympathy with any organisation or group which, anywhere any-where or at any time, arrogates to itself the un-American power to Interfere In the slightest degree de-gree with complete religious free dom. Any program, even If directed by good Intention, which tends to i breed or revive religious dlcord or antagonism, ran and may ! ftp read with such rapidity as to , imperil thla vital constitutional , protection of one of the moat sacred of human right. I believe the character and conduct of every public servant, great and small, should bo subject sub-ject to the constant scrutiny of the people. This must bo true If a democracy serves Its purpose. |