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This week we thought we would contribute to international monetary stability by refraining from all comment about gold.

Gettin’ to where a fella just doesn’t know which riot report to believe anymore. The President’s Commission on Civil Disorders tells us: “White racism is essentially responsible for the explosive mixture which has been accumulating in our cities since the end of World War II.” Not so, says a six-city study conducted by the Lemberg Center for the Study of Violence at Brandeis University: “There is no direct relationship between the level of white resistance and the level of Negro dissatisfaction. Nor is there any systematic relation between the level of white resistance and the occurrence of a riot. We are thus forced to conclude that hard-core white resistance has little bearing on a city’s riot potential.” There now. Clear?

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William F. Buckley Jr.

This week we thought we would contribute to international monetary stability by refraining from all comment about gold.

Gettin’ to where a fella just doesn’t know which riot report to believe anymore. The President’s Commission on Civil Disorders tells us: “White racism is essentially responsible for the explosive mixture which has been accumulating in our cities since the end of World War II.” Not so, says a six-city study conducted by the Lemberg Center for the Study of Violence at Brandeis University: “There is no direct relationship between the level of white resistance and the level of Negro dissatisfaction. Nor is there any systematic relation between the level of white resistance and the occurrence of a riot. We are thus forced to conclude that hard-core white resistance has little bearing on a city’s riot potential.” There now. Clear?