Sen. Byrd Says Virginia No. i NAA(T Target U. S. Senator Harry F. Byrd said this week Virginia has be come the number one target of forces seeking integration. Byrd, in an interview with a re porter for tlie Richmond News Leader, said the federal govern ment and the National Assn, for tlie Advancement of Colored Peo ple NAACPi mean to "try to brin;..' Virginia to her knees first." "I think it's time all the Vir gin a people knew if they don't already know it- -that they are going to try to break us down first in the South. Byrd said. The .interview preceded a talk" before a civic club. t ills Drastic Measures Byrd said that no where else in the South are forces favoring in tegration resorting to measures as drastic as those they are bringing to bear in Virginia. "They’re making the drive on us first." lie said. "They want to break us down first because of our prestige and leadership with the rest of the South." He urged Virginia to continue a course of "passive resistance" and commended Gov Thomas B Stanley and the supporters of the governor s "no integration" pro as 'll tlie General Assembly. Rcierscd Itself Byn! said the U, S. Supreme Court had reversed lt.srll once on 'tie segregation issue and "if we show ’.tie proper fortitude.-, then there is always the possibilty that if the court reverses itself once, it w dl reverse itself again." Five desegregation suits brought by tlie NAACP have reached fed eral courts in Virginia. Arlington County and Charlottesville have asked the U. S. Supreme Court to hear an appeal from district'court orders requiring desegregation by

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