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28 _—CNEW. YORK POST, MONDAY, SE! TiN:BER : Er 4s 4 Sot, The bomb th ed ; eee oe EID bs hat mer cilessly exploded in a B Tr aingham ! church yesterday may have biasted the carefui plans of many men in Washington who stlll refuse to believe Lrat the struggle — for equal rights is a life-and-death matte> in which the ‘usual formulae of political maneuver are out of date. . In the aftermath of Jast nronth’s Freedum “March many ion. Even some i cle hastened to — Edgar Hoover is the real murderer St ws blandly (Phony Edgar) _ [a healthy eme- that our , - a tannin - vould be a quiet ty meéet - _ letdown thereafter, permitting the joliy spirit of “compromise” to | given’ to - - dominaté legislative disposal of the civil-rights bills, ~ > that We. Strong voices. within the Administration : quietly continued’ 000,00 to resist the drive for a sweeping civil rights statute and to coun- , 7 gel the President against any total investment in such a measure.. The important thing, the cool calculators argued, was to get “some kind of a bill” rather than to risk defeat by seeking such controversial provisions aS the item knows as “part UL" Under the proopsal the Justice Dept. would be armed with bread hew powers to bring injunction proceedings against civil rights vielaters and their police accomplices, It would dramatically align the U. S. with the victims of racist hooliganism, =~ a? ee Both this provision and the demiand for. an FEPC caust were . ‘wlewed by some. Administration’ strategists “fighting” propesi- . tlons that could only imperil the chance for “some kind -of biti.” - Throughout the last fartmight informed. reports have. in- dicated that the strategy of retreat-was- prevailing. .— - But that was before yesterday's terrible bombing it ‘Birm-. ingham, perhaps the most gruesome and inflammatory episode at has occurred in our. modern sequel to the civil war, Pe r,s ~ As this is written ttle more ls known. thas that four ft. -nocent Negro children were cruelly slain'in the jmamiting of a Negro church that has been used as a citadel of civil rights as. Sperg semblage, that_a 14- year-old Negra boy has been killed by local - police and a 9-year-old boy by two white warrlurs in the angry’. turmoil that followed the slayings. But orie need not know much more te know that those who have been advocating # soft line in: the. Congressional -civil rights debate must have - suffered s ——: Nenn_gevastating shock. 9-7 opis ined _ It would have been politically hazardous anil’ a morally “ausious: cet” eM at 8 te ee ee