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...laid down by Georgia's Richard Brevard Russell, Southern Senators were busily infiltrating Northern lines with Old South courtesy, sowing confusion with legalisms, and arguing more in sorrow than in anger against the Administration's civil rights bill. But somehow Virginia's old warrior, Harry Flood Byrd, failed to get the word. One day last week he rose up in the Senate in fine old-fashioned Southern style to attack the civil rights bill head...
...statute could be invoked under the bill to provide the armed might of the U.S. for enforcement of the bill's provisions. This bayonet force is only a sample of the kind of vicious stuff of which this bill is made." Who were the designing drafters? Rasped Byrd: "I strongly suspect that the modern Thaddeus Stevens* now cloaked in the robes of the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme...
...Fast?" Soon after Byrd sat down, the Senate voted by a lopsided 71 (29 Democrats, 42 Republicans) to 18 (Southern Democrats all) to begin debate on the rights bill already passed by the House. But no sooner had civil rights become the Senate's order of business than Minority Leader Bill Knowland's coalition commenced to come apart at the seams...
...that defies the state by mixing races. Like other moderate segregationists, Lawyer Dalton believes in district-by-district supervision, a plan that would inevitably admit some Negro students to white schools (e.g., in the Washington suburbs of Arlington and Alexandria), but can ultimately withstand court tests better than the Byrd strategy of massive resistance. "Massive resistance," he argues, is a "massive myth leading to massive retreat and massive surrender." Underscoring Dalton's analysis, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (Virginia, West Virginia. Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina) last week ruled Virginia's 1956 Pupil Placement...
Even so, few Virginians believe that Dalton in the general election this November will match his near-winning performance of four years ago. Dalton is already being smeared as an integrationist from one end of the state to the other. And in Harry Byrd's Virginia, few epithets are more powerful...