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The Case of the Missing Quid Pro Quo

The Liberal propaganda machine, as noted in this space from time to time, never gives up on the desegregation issue in the South. It cannot give up on it, for one thing because that issue is the ground it has chosen for its definitive battle with the white Southeners (who remain a major political barrier to the ushering-in of the “New America”). It cannot, secondly, because “implementing” the Supreme Court’s desegregation decision is the indispensable next step (as, in their time, the women’s suffrage and income tax amendments were indispensable next steps) in the levelling program to which, above all else, the Liberals are pledged. And it can not, finally, because desegregation is the one live issue on which it has both a) committed its prestige, and b) been taking a licking.

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Willmoore Kendall

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The Case of the Missing Quid Pro Quo

The Liberal propaganda machine, as noted in this space from time to time, never gives up on the desegregation issue in the South. It cannot give up on it, for one thing because that issue is the ground it has chosen for its definitive battle with the white Southeners (who remain a major political barrier to the ushering-in of the “New America”). It cannot, secondly, because “implementing” the Supreme Court’s desegregation decision is the indispensable next step (as, in their time, the women’s suffrage and income tax amendments were indispensable next steps) in the levelling program to which, above all else, the Liberals are pledged. And it can not, finally, because desegregation is the one live issue on which it has both a) committed its prestige, and b) been taking a licking.