ORGANIZATIONS: Selected Guests

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The proprietors of Arizona's luxurious Camelback Inn point with pride to their "mouthwatering food" and the hotel's location in the "dry. healthful, sun-blessed desert." They also talk loftily of their policy of accepting only "selected guests." Last week the National Association of Attorneys General, which had planned to hold its annual convention next month in the Camelback, decided to meet in stead in West Virginia's famed Greenbrier Hotel. Reason: the Camelback's slogan of "Selected Guests" turned out to be a euphemism for "Hardly Any Jews Allowed."

It was the second switch of site for the association in the past four months. Originally, the convention was scheduled for Mississippi. But Georgia's Attorney General Eugene Cook, president of the association, refused to invite U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell because of the Administration's stand against school segregation. So the Camelback was booked.

Then B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League protested that the Camelback took in only gentiles. Brownell let it be known that he would not stay there; so did some state attorneys general. That left the attorneys general little choice but to move.