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like, at the opposite polo, ths antics of ths NAACP. Neither has shown common sense or wsiwed I judgment, let alone reason.
Everybody who has hind the courage to look the situation square in the eye, lying aside as far as possible inherent prejudices and personal preferences and feelings, knows that integration, eventually, is inevitable.
Sound, far-sighted statesmanship would have recognised this, even though such recognition would have been temporarily unpopular, and would have devoted its efforts to creating an atmosphere in which the need for adjusting viewpoints wpuld have been stressed, even as the necessity for delay in implementation of the decree was emphasised. Instead, we have eeen the attempt to prohibit integration' in any section of theh State, the passage of the absurd Pope amendment, and threats of retaliation, etc. Instead of a calm and realistic evaluation of the situation, the historic Virginia General Assembly has seemed to try to outdo the NAACP in vindictiveness, with apparent
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