Evening star., 1962-10-05

Lawrence, is the only sane. fac
tual, impersonal expression
on the subject I have seem
a lone pen thrust against the
swords. I only trust it will not
result in the confinement of
Mr.. Lawrence with General
Walker. I would miss him.
r. S. Cliff.
y 4 \ 4
Like Khrushchev once
stated, America will not be
destroyed by war but by its
own people. Mississippi is an
other example of how right
he was. The American good
will" built up in other ma
tions is ruined again by the
disgraceful behavior of ignor-
ant fanatics in the South.
What about those nations
we so desperately want to be
friendly with, but where the
population is colored, too?
We sure need a thorough
search in our own souls and
conscience concerning human
beings created by the same
God.
Grace T. Collin.
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Is it not tragic that PreSi-
dent Kennedy a year ago
could not find one helicop-
ter or airplane or even one
company of United States
Marines to aid the attempted
liberation of Cuba from COM
munism, whereas now he has
unearthed hundreds of air.
craft and thousands Of troops
in a police action involving
only a small university
which wasn't even Commu-
mist!
Emery HerteIendy.
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There is one consoling fact
Negroes should keep in mind
when contemplating the lack
of Christian justice and char
ity some unfortunate white
people exhibit in insisting on
segregation of races when
there is no good reason for
it, and that is the whole his
tory of the world is a de-
pressing story Of the persecu-
ton of people and countries
by others. 1t is a universal
affliction. People who criti-
cize the United States for
this should also remember
that no country has been
without this. *
Isabel C. Moore.
A newSman for one of the
great networks takes the
newspapers of Mississippi Sc
verely to task for not telling
their readers that the cause
is hopeless, they are licked
before they start, so why be
so stupid as to resist?
This trivial incident, one
little newscast in the grist
of the weeks programs, re-
veals in clear focus the pre-
vailing philosophy of our
times. OF course, there is
only one possible outcome to
the controversy between the
State of Mississippi and the
Federal Government. Every
citizen of the State knows
this, and they do not need
their newspapers, conforming
to. directions from the liberal
apparatus, to tell them so.
In the intellectual climate
of today, where pragmatism
and relativiSm are the
standard measures o. wis
dom, where no values are re-
garded as absolute and no
principles are safe from
daily revision, in this cli-
mate there is no place for
the man who would rather
go down to defeat with ban
ners flying in a cause in
which he deeply believes,
than to run up the white
flag the moment a superior
force is arrayed against him,
One thing can be stated
with conviction: If this
country is finally saved from
a Communist take-over
(which may be doubted, in
the light of the Administra-
tion's present course) it will
be saved by people like the
Mississippians, not by the
doubledomes of the Eastern
seaboard, whose answer tc
every Red aggression is re-
treat, compromise, appease-
ment, negotiation, and tc
whom the craven, disgusting
/. slogan Better Red thar
Dead" appears as a gem Of
widom.
C. Glenn WhitlOck.
The Mississippi fiasco is a
result of bad leadership, ano
need never have beer
brought to a head.
The primary cause was
political-minded judiciary re-