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DELEGATE AUKINS: .Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentle-
men of the Commission, I have had occasion at another time
during the deliberations of this group to make known my
views regarding the questions which have been under debate
here for the last couple of days. Those views were not then
lightly held, nor indeed are the views which I now hold
lightly held.
There comes a time, however, in the basic debates
on any major problem of this magnitude when emotions are
aroused, when sides are chosen, when it becomes necessary
for reasonable men if progress is to be made to attempt a
sincere and deliberate reconciliation of those various
widely held, strongly held, views.
I suggest to this Convention that that time for
us has come. We have all debated these matters. We each
know how we feel. I suggest probably that none of our views
have basically been changed by anything that has been said.
What has been accomplished is the fact that this Convention
has been brought face to face with the fact that it has not
been able to agree. We have not been able, as my Quaker
friends say, to arrive at a sense of the meeting. It has,