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Your article on Governor Almond and integration left out a few pertinent facts. How about the thousands of families that have moved from the "District" here in Washington, probably with financial loss, to make new homes in Arlington and Fairfax counties in Virginia? They did so obviously to escape a decree of the U.S. Supreme Court...
...most closely reasoned, carefully pinpointed opinion of the whole desegregation struggle, the Supreme Court last week struck at the massive Southern attempts to avoid compliance with its 1954 integration order. Specifically, the court aimed its opinion at Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus-but its effect would be felt in Virginia and in any other Southern state that had placed hopes for resistance in hedgerows of state laws...
...Arkansas ... which reflect their own determination to resist this court's [desegregation] decision." To such defiance there could be only one answer: "The constitutional rights [of the students] are not to be sacrificed or yielded to the violence and disorder which have followed upon the actions of the Governor and Legislature ... Law and order are not ... to be preserved by depriving the Negro children of their constitutional rights...
...legislators or state executive or judicial officers," said the court, cannot nullify "the constitutional rights of children not to be discriminated against in school admission on grounds of race or color"-either directly or ''through evasive schemes for segregation, whether attempted ingeniously or ingenuously." And a state Governor is just as liable to a federal restraining order as anybody else. Otherwise, said the court, quoting Charles Evans Hughes, the "fiat of a state Governor, and not the Constitution of the U.S., would be the supreme law of the land...
...another move to alleviate the Boston area parking problem, Governor Furcolo recently signed a bill providing for construction, maintenance, repair, and operation of a garage under the Boston Common and creating the Massachusetts Parking Authority...