Race Problem Concerns Entire Country, Says Nieman Fellow

In a description of the Columbia, Tennessee, race riots of last February 25, Fletcher P. Martin, Nieman Fellow and city editor of the Louisville Defender, said last night that the problem of race relations in the South was the responsibility of the nation and the federal government and would not be solved in the South alone.

Addressing the Harvard Liberal Union in Phillips Brooks House, he expressed gratitude at the "tremendous job done by the American Veterans Committee in breaking down racial barriers through its inter-racial chapters.