European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 26, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes sunday january 26, 1969 William f. Buckley or. Out out Brief Candle is Wilkins right the stand taken a few Days ago by or. Roy Wilkins the head of the National association for the advancement of coloured peo ple was in one respect Welcome. He denounced Black extremism and there is no denying the need to denounce it. But in the course of doing so he planted squarely his objections to the evolution of the Black movement during the last couple of years and that is something else again. Or Wilkins made two Points one of them constitutional the other social. As a matter of Law surely he is Correct in suggesting that what White people Are not permitted to do to Black people Black people surely ought not to be permitted to do to White peo ple. If it to wrong under the Constitution for White people to com Pel segregation then it is wrong for Black people to compel Segre gation. Accordingly said or. Wil Kins if it becomes necessary for the National association for the advancement of coloured people to go Back to the courts and sue Black defendants he is quite pre pared to do so. Flora Lewis thai declaration has now brought a vigorous denunciation from or. Roy Innis who is the head of the Congress of racial Equality. Or. Innis spoke Well of or. Wilkins historic role As head of the a act but suggested that really or. Wilkins retirement is overdue that he is behind the times that he does not under stand the meaning of the current struggle of the negroes for self identification. On the matter of turning Back to the courts or Innis was emphatic the latest a act outrage is the last Straw. If Wilkins can use funds sup Posedly earmarked for Black peo ple to fight against those same people then Core will commit resources to defend and Safe guard the students in their de  now there is a Happy Prospect for an innocent judge sitting somewhere to find himself one Day presiding Over a lawsuit brought by the a act against say the administration of North Western University for acceding to negro student demands that negro students be Given their own living quarters with c6re defending Northwestern How to untangle that mess. The key surely is whether the new negro Militancy will permit negroes so disposed to proceed As they Are disposed towards integration. The stories of Black militants booing nonconformists Are now legion they proceed As if they have the rights of Union leaders to bully and to intimidate those who do not want to Oln. How one wonders for in stance would a negro student fare at san Francisco state col lege if he arrived there As a freshmen and announced that he did not desire to join the Black student Union nor to associate exclusively with the Black Stu dents to whom would he turn for Protection world Chi do ministration protect a Riff a no could he Tarn to the a act but or. Wilkins hat failed to give serious enough attention to negroes helping negroes rely ing upon themselves helping themselves organizing them selves educating themselves. C Washington Star Syndicate Clayton Fritchey sex Core chief caught in web of peace has vital Choice James Farmer the former head of Core has been offered his Choice of three jobs just be Low Cabinet level in the Nixon administration at health Edu cation and welfare at housing and Urban development and at Justice. Whatever he does his prob Lem of decision reflects the state James Farmer of relations Between the Nixon administration and the uneasy minority groups. There Aren t Many republicans in the ghettos and the Barrios and the reservations around the country. So after the election the Nixon people awoke to find they scarcely knew anyone to talk to about which Blacks puerto Picans mexican Ameri cans should be offered jobs. Further Nixon Laid Down a Tough guideline he wanted a strict Standard of Merit without lean ing Over backwards to show feel ing. It s a righteous upstanding idea in theory. In practice the trouble was that it really meant straight Competition and the tests applied included Republican leanings which naturally count As a Merit in the eyes of a Republican administration. Of course it in t working Well and that is Why the appoint ments Are going so slowly. For one thing if the Blacks and the mexican americans and the puerto Picans were All fully equipped to compete equally with Whites for the Best jobs there would t be such a race and ghetto prob Lem. Further Competition is currently the other Way around with business universities poli tics communications and govern ment fighting each other Over the Well qualified among minorities. Another difficulty has been that the guideline tends to under Cut the authority of recognized minority leaders. Nixon s men have consulted them All but they Aren t being Given what amounts to patronage. The Urban league s Whitney Young and Nixon had some harsh words about that approach. It is worthy to say that people should be chosen regardless of race and not because of race. But at this stage of America s evolution that remains a pious goal. Minority appointees Are considered representatives of their people. A dark face at the top of the ladder is an important Symbol to those reaching up for the first rung and its effect on those in the Middle should t be underestimated. C 1969, new Day inc. The opinion expressed in the column and cartoon on Thi Page represent those of the author and Are in no Way to be considered As representing the View of the Star and Stripe in Elf or of the United state government. Many leaders More famous than rep. Morris Udall have commented on president Nixon s inaugural address but few if any interpreted it As boldly As the Arizona congressman. In his View the new chief executive has Cut yet wanting it and getting it Are not the same. Johnson s fluctuating policy hardened and softened As the tide of Battle shifted in Vietnam and As support for the War Rose and fell in the . This is natural and it would be natural for Nixon to do the same if the War drags on because of a stale mate in the Paris peace negotiations. It is no secret that the incoming president has been getting a lot of intimate Pep talks from the military Hierarchy in recent weeks. Their message which they themselves obviously be Lieve is simple and seductive one More punch and the enemy hat had it. Therefore it s not necessary to make significant concessions. If the enemy stalls at Paris turn the screws once More in Vietnam. It will not be easy to Brush off this advice for the generals could be right. They weren t right in the past when they gave Johnson the same assessment but there s always a first time. If an experienced and sceptical Johnson could t resist gambling on a military Victory can we be sure Nixon will be impervious to a similar temptation if peace proves elusive there already is a tendency in the highest Nixon circles to equate the korean peace talks with the Vietnam ones. The mythological Republican version is that president Eisenhower scared North Korea into coming to terms in july 1953 by a secret threat to resort to ail out War with not even nuclear weapons necessarily excluded. Although this Story is now widely believed there is no proof that the ultimatum if Given was received by peking or if received that it cowed the chinese. C 1069, new Day inc. Rep. Morris Udall off any possibility of retreating to a military solution of the Viet Nam War. Nixon he says has now come Down so hard on the theme of peace and the necessity of Compromise that it would be extremely difficult for the administration to re escalate the War and go Back to a policy based on military  Udall is an intelligent Well informed congressman and he May turn out to be right. Certainly millions of americans will Hope so. Nevertheless it it Tak ing a lot for granted to assume that the inaugural speech rules out any future resumption or escalation of the War. Nixon s Strong emphasis on peace was Welcome and reas Suring. There can be Little doubt that he sincerely wants peace. European edition it. Col. F. 8. Michael jr., Usan editor in chief Mert Proctor managing editor Elmer 0. 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