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...yesterday morning Governor Ross R. Barnett left Boston for the Mississippi he praised so highly before the Law School Forum. Boston, Cambridge, and Harvard did well by him while he was here. Boston and Cambridge police protected him, and the Harvard police surrounding Memorial Hall prevented the thousand ticket holders who were refused admission from suffering any greater harm than disappointment...
...Barnett said he hoped he could make it clear that segregation is not the same thing as racial hatred. "Why, we work right along side the Nergo in our factories; we do everything we can for him," the Governor explained. "We spend 70 per cent of our state funds for education on Negro schools...
...there's a humble Negro that knows his place," Barnett said. "We get along just fine...
Integration continued long enough, Barnett said, would lead to a "mongrelization of races" and the decline of the white race. "You look at Egypt," he said. "They were the greatest white race in the world, until the Negroes came along. Then they started to go down hill. Just look at them...
...Barnett is a large, jowly man, but with sharp features. In private, he speaks and reacts quietly and slowly, clipping what would otherwise be a stage drawl. He enjoys smiling, and smiles often with an expression of complete pleasure...