". . . and to the Nation"

Mississippi's Senator Bilbo was off again. He had received many letters protesting his intemperate filibuster against the Fair Employment Practices Committee (TIME, July 9). Now he sat down to answer his mail.

To Miss Josephine Piccolo, a Brooklyn textile inspector, he wrote: "My dear Dago: (If I am mistaken in this please correct me) ... Will you please keep your dirty proboscis out of the other 47 states, especially the dear old State of Mississippi?"

To Miss Helen Feldman, a Chicago secretary, he wrote: "I wired a bunch of these fanatics in New York, and told them if these Communists and fanatical groups did not quit trying to pass such damphool legislation . . . that eventually the great mass of American people would revolt and figuratively liquidate every member of their groups."

He was really wound up when he replied to Leonard E. Golditch of New York, secretary of the National Committee to Combat Anti-Semitism. Cried "The Man": "If Jews of your type don't quit sponsoring and fraternizing with the negro race you are going to arouse so much opposition to all of you that they will get a very strong invitation to pack up and resettle in Palestine. . . . There are just a few of you New York Jew 'kikes' . . . socializing with the negroes for selfish and political reasons. . . . You had better stop and think."

In the South, there were many who had stopped and thought. Said the New Orleans Item: "Truly there is no worse influence in high life than Senator Bilbo. ... He is a disgrace to Mississippi . . . and to the nation."

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