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country, and -they are today in the jungle outposts, in
the front line of battle defending the principles for
which we stand as a nation and as a state.
Some of them will never return to their home-
land. Some will return with wounds that will prevent
them from being a productive part of society. Others
will come back full of hope and expectation that their
country will assure to them all of the great ideals that
they have been fighting to preserve in the far corners of
the world, the ideals for which our nation stands.
We can honor the dead, we can thank the wounded,
but this Convention can reassure the living that in
Maryland we are determined to make a proud and meaning-
ful contribution to the protection of all persons without
regard to race, religion or national origin.
The Federal language presented by the majori-tv
of the committee is a good faith attempt by sincere
persons to place -the state on record in support of equal
rights and the language is fine as far as it goes, but it
looks backwards to the kind of state in 1868 when tho
14th Amendment was enacted in which segregation by custom