I had enclosed clippings from local newspapers and other evidence to establish that whites were being seriously harassed in the District merely because of their color. But Mr. Pollak reported to me that he could find "no statute administered by this Department covering the specific type of activity described in the clippings." I would like to read for a moment. if I may. from one of those clippings entitled. "Negro Militants Force Immigrant to Close His Grocery Store." It appeared in the Washington Post on April 29. When Henry Walczak says hes living on borrowed time. hes not talking about the black militants whose pickets have forced him to close his 14th Street market. He is thinking instead of Poland and Russia. of World War II and the Minsk ghetto. "The Germans couldnt kill me". he says. "I was lucky".
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