rrilE I'. S. Supreme" Court rejected 8-0 * Virginia’s appeal from orders of two lower federal courts enjoining enforce ment of racial segregation in Charlottes ville and Arlington County. To integrationists this decision was hail ed as a rebuff for Virginia and Governor Stanley's and the people’s plan to maintain segregated schools. To segregationists the decision is one more step in the long legal battle to main tain a public schools system, worthy of the name, through continued segregation. To politicians it appears to be an issue upon which the Virginia gubernatorial eampaigiy-can be fought, one side daring the other to join the issue. To those people who understand the great issue, the decision challenges the State of Virginia, in its interposition of the sovereign rights and powers of the State between the people and the illegal decision of the U. S. Supreme Court, usurping the rights and powers of the several states of the Union under the U. S. Constitution. It is but a natural course of events. The Supreme Court has joined the issue of states rights under the Constitution. This is the important issue. The court seems to be ready to meet it head-on. Virginia ap pears to be ready to meet it head-on. Pos sibly for that reason the attack is being made principally on Virginia. Litigation in the remainder of the Southern states is ominously quiet. The strategy appears to be to attack Virginia frontally, conquer it, and thus make the legal conquest of the other Southern states easier. We have little patience with those who would introduce the red herring, “save the public schools”, to confuse the issue. We will either maintain or lose the public school system through determination of the simple question: Under the Constitution as written, conceived, adopted, and until

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