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they should be such as Eric
Sevareid and Ralph McGill,
who blithely forge ahead in
apparently a deliberate, blind
refusal to embrace-or even
consider-pertinent facts to
an issue which give the lie to
their own prejudiced opin-
ions. The printing of false
hood in support of a proposed
attitude or way Of life, can
not enhance that proposal.
David Lawrence has &C
tually done no more than
point to the simple facts of
American Constitutional life.
Gilbert ]. Brockman.
y II n 4
I am a Southerner, born
and bred in North Carolina,
and duly proud Of my Anglo
0dXOH dllCeSGTy.
Gov. Barnett's brazen
blocking of justice in the
Meredith case provides for
Mississippi a martyr, for the
Deep South a hero. for the
Nation a disgrace. for the
world a villain, for the hui
man race a tragic failure -
and for the Creator, surely. a
grievous sorrow.
With slums to be eradi-
Gated, diseases to be con-
quered, the worlds hungry
to be fed, lasting peace to
be established, and a uni
verse to be explored, how can
we let ourselves squander
precious time and spiritual
power in petty pickering,
hatred, and animal violence
over racial issues which
should have been solved q
century ago?
What part Of Gov. Bar
nett's purpose was political
opportunism and what part
honest conviction, only he
and the Creator can say. But
if the University of Missis-
sippi can rightly and gra-
ciously enroll a dozen dark
skinned students from dis
tant India, why not also a
well-tanned American from
Mississippi itself?
The radical racism to
which the Governor and his
misguided followers cling is
scientifically insupportable,
morally indefensible, reli-
giously blasphemous, sociolog-
ically unnecessary, POLITICAL
ly irresponsible, economically
destructive, internationally
embarrassing, humanity de-
grading, and democratically
intolerable.
Wake up, Governor! Wake
up, Mississippi! Wake up,
America - lest by the ines
capable laws of justice and
history we be weighed in the
balance, found wanting, and
judged to have failed man
kind in this decisive hour of
mans painful pilgrimage to-
ward true humanity, on this
small planet asail on the
star-strewn seas of cosmic
space and human destiny.
David Andrews.
Methodist Minister,
Baltimore, Md.
= + 4
The Kennedy administra-
ton and the pressure groups
it represents, determined to
smash every vestige of tradi-
ton in America, has TO-
mented an incident-using
the tried and tested ingre-
dent of racial agitation as
a smoke screen.
Regardless of how North
erners feel about indignation,
all thinking Americans-un-
easily aware of the Kennedy
power grab-support Gov.
Ross Barnett and the united
beleaguered people he leads.
Gov. Barnett rightly and le-
gally interposed the State of
Mississippi between the ber-
serk power of the pressure
groups and the people. This
is Thomas Jefferson's doc
trine of interposition. 1t is
the essence of the Federal re-
public concept of America.
Is the Federal Government
the master or the servant of
the people? Can we stand
aside while another step in
the planned debasement of
the American way is COM
pleted?
Mrs. T. r. Peden.
Laguna Beach, Calf.
-
Ralph McGill is mistaken
about the word "interposi-
ton" He says:
THE South has suffered
much, and will continue to
endure even more grief be-
cause Of many political lead
ers who for years have ha-