Atlanta Daily World

BETWEEN THE LINES
BY GORDON B. HANCOCK

DEALING WITH OUR SUBVERSIVES
Subversion is one of the live issues before the nation, crying for attention. It would be national suicide to minimize the gravity of the current situation, which has revealed that there are subversive forces at work which threaten the survival of our great nation. Those who would minimize the current threat of subversion are dangerous to the common weal.
The abuse of prerogatives of guilty, is his greatest sin, and not the careful utilization of those prerogatives. This country, unfortunately, needs someone to do what McCarthy has overdone, and therein, lies the path to greater national security.
More than once, this column has belabored the point that it would be traitorous for us to sit supinely by and let our great moral heritage go by default. Our lovely land and our glorious liberties have been bought with a price and are worth fighting for. This nation of ours must be preserved against any and all subversives!
We have not done our whole duty until we attack with equal vigor subversism wherever found. It is not enough to fight unto death the subversism that storms from Moscow: but if we would be true to God and native land we must fight the subversism that stems from Columbia, South Carolina and Atlanta, Georgia. There is little to choose between these, who would emasculate the Constitution and those who would emasculate democracy and Christianity.
It must be admitted that opposition to the spirit and letter of the Constitution is no less subversive than fellow-traveling and communism. In the last analysis one is as deadly and dangerous as the other.
We are not going to give this great nation of ours the requisite security while we seek out and punish the communists and wink at the subversives who would destroy the country by destroying the Constitution. The time is coming in this country when giving comfort is given in the name of white supremacy with its segregation, or whether given by the devotees of Lenin, the dead god of Russia.
The story goes that once a girl and her lover were pranking with a gun in the parlor, and there was an explosion and the girl fell mortally wounded with a bullet in her heart. Her lover caught her up in his arms and cried, "Maud, Maud, darling. I didn't go to do it!" But Maud was as dead as if he had been aiming to do her to death. The person who dies by accident is just as dead as one who dies on purpose! Subversion by Negrophobes is just as deadly as subversism of the Kremlin.
When governors and attorneys-general and other officials meet in conclave and seek ways and means of circumventing the mandates of the Constitution of the United States, we are witnessing a species of subversism. The sooner this sordid fact is faced the sooner we will be prepared to fight unto the death the battle that communism in a hundred forms is forcing upon us. A divided nation cannot defeat communism.
Russia was startled and stunned and thrown off balance when the Supreme Court outlawed segregation. Their long silence on the decision was studied and calculating. But Russia's silence has been broken thus:
"The peoples of Asia and Africa form their ideas of the U. S. policy as regards the so-called colored people by the deeds of American racists. American ruling circles from time to time make demagogic gestures designed for export as well as to lull the American public and conceal the struggles of American officials with the problem of Negro discrimination."
The Russian newspapers further declared. The decision was- of a purely masking character and it has been undertaken with propagation aims alone.
"Touching in one of his press conferences on the decision of the Supreme Court, United States President Eisenhower gave a negative reply to the question of whether he could advise the Southern States how they are supposed to react.
"Those behind a formal position of non-interference, which is by itself sufficiently revealing, offer cia! support of race discrimination is being concealed."
Isvestia, a national organ, has this to say:
"Isn't it clear, even if the decision is implemented, that factually everything will remain the same old way? For the powerful American racists will find thousands of loop holes, thousands of ways starting with laws and ending with direct terror to preserve the inviolability of segregation."
To prove its case Isvestia quotes from. Byrnes of South Carolina, Gov. Hugh White of Mississippi, Gov. Talmadge of Georgia. Senator Russell of Georgia and Senator Eastland of Mississippi.
Just how accurately Russia has diagnosed our situation is a serious matter and one which conceivably involves the future of democracy in the world. It's our move!