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...Nationalists, meanwhile, contend that they are the de jure representatives of all of China because they were the last to be chosen in freely contested elections, ending in 1948. According to a school of diplomatic thought dating back to Woodrow Wilson, only constitutionally elected governments should be acceptable to the community of nations. The Nationalists can also cite a more widely held point of international law, the so-called "Ethiopian Principle," which dates from 1938 when Emperor Haile Selassie was in hiding from his country's Italian invaders. Rome then sought international recognition of its sovereignty over Ethiopia...
...Stennis amendment more simply would extend school segregation to cover instances of de facto as well as de jure discrimination...
Political Fallout. Such confusion is understandable. Although it has outlawed de jure, or officially sanctioned segregation, the Supreme Court has thus far declined to rule on de facto segregation resulting from housing patterns. The high court has failed to set rules defining exactly what a school system must do about producing integration. The Nixon Administration's policy is to go only as far as the court leads. This fall may produce new directions. The court last week agreed to hear half a dozen cases, including Charlotte-Mecklenburg, at the beginning of the October term. Among the matters...
Even as the old issue of de jure segregation became a dead issue, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger made rulings on the appeals of five school systems involving what may become a still more volatile dispute on a national rather than sectional level: the question of de facto segregation, racial separation existing without legal sanction. As applied to the schools, the question is whether the law requires positive action by school officials, such as busing, to achieve racial mixtures that neighborhood schools, because of housing patterns, prevent. Without comment, Burger last week refused to delay lower-court orders for substantial...
Whores in Church. There is nothing particularly altruistic about the Administration's course. Pressure from the courts to end de jure segregation remains strong. What is more, Nixon's political strategists plan to leave George Wallace with an empty issue in 1972. In Wallace's successful campaign for renomination to the Alabama governorship this spring, he scored points with white voters by pleading: "Give us back our schools." But, argues a White House aide, if Wallace raises that cry in 1972, Southerners are going to look around and see that their segregated schools have disappeared irretrievably...