Against Segregation

"I propose," said Dwight Eisenhower in his State of the Union message last month, "to use whatever authority exists in the office of the President to end segregation in the District of Columbia including the Federal Government . . ." Last week the Administration began making good on the pledge: in a brief filed with the Supreme Court, Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. made the Administration's case against segregation in Washington restaurants.

Said Brownell: "Several hundred thousand federal employees, representing every segment of our population, work and live in the District of Columbia area. It is the established policy of the United States that its employees shall be hired, and shall work together, without regard to any differences of race or color." As amicus curiae (friend of the court), Brownell sided with the District corporation council in appealing for reversal of a lower court decision invalidating an old District of Columbia anti-segregation ordinance.

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