Klansmen Gather
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) SPARTANBURG (South Carolina), August 18. Ku Klux Klan leaders held • cross-burning ceremony on the outskirts of town last night and alleged that the civil rights movement was part of a Communist conspiracy. About 2000 persons attended the gathering at which a 20-foot cross was set afire. Robert Shelton, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America, Inc., said the Attorney-General, Mr Robert Kennedy, was “an outright liar’’ if he denied that many Negro leaders were linked with Communist causes. He said that “the Kennedy Klan and pinko actors’’ were aiding Negro leaders in pushing for a one-world Government and racial mongrelisation. Shelton was wearing a dark suit because his golden robe had been left at a motel. Leaders of klan organisations from several other Southern states were among about 100 robed klansmen present Lord Cobham, after a memorably - successful fiveyear term as GovernorGeneral of New Zealand, is the probable successor to the late Admiral Sir William Tennant as Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire, according to today’s “Sunday Telegraph.”—London, August 18
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30213, 19 August 1963, Page 11
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