The Week

■ First it was the “liberals.” They gave way to the “moderates,” who were in turn supplanted by the “conservatives”—and now the New York Times has sighted “ultraconservatives” in Prague, who threaten to displace the “conservatives” and set up a Stalinist police state. It just goes to show you, the Right is a clear and present danger.

■ The State of Mississippi may soon be subsidizing lawsuits against de facto segregation in Northern schools. Governor John Bell Williams argues that forcing the Supreme Court to order the same instantaneous and total integration of Northern school districts that it has already ordered for districts in the South is the only way of winning the broad public support needed to roll back the tide of judicial egalitarianism. Accordingly, the Governor has asked state legislators to appropriate $1 million for a team of Mississippi lawyers who would go North and find clients willing to file desegregation suits. If the legislature goes along, the lawyers will work hand in hand with the NAACP’s Legal Defense and Education Fund, which has already, for its own reasons, endorsed the Governor’s plan.

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■ First it was the “liberals.” They gave way to the “moderates,” who were in turn supplanted by the “conservatives”—and now the New York Times has sighted “ultraconservatives” in Prague, who threaten to displace the “conservatives” and set up a Stalinist police state. It just goes to show you, the Right is a clear and present danger.

■ The State of Mississippi may soon be subsidizing lawsuits against de facto segregation in Northern schools. Governor John Bell Williams argues that forcing the Supreme Court to order the same instantaneous and total integration of Northern school districts that it has already ordered for districts in the South is the only way of winning the broad public support needed to roll back the tide of judicial egalitarianism. Accordingly, the Governor has asked state legislators to appropriate $1 million for a team of Mississippi lawyers who would go North and find clients willing to file desegregation suits. If the legislature goes along, the lawyers will work hand in hand with the NAACP’s Legal Defense and Education Fund, which has already, for its own reasons, endorsed the Governor’s plan.