The following evening, an estimated 600 whites skirmished in gang assaults with police, attacking patrol cars and setting bonfires in Charlestown. The Boston Herald American, which opposes busing, termed it "a rampage." No arrests were made.

On September 2 the cops did arrest four hooligans in South Boston during an evening protest of 200 against "police brutality." Public transportation in the area was disrupted for three hours by groups of young white toughs who stoned city buses. Black employees refused to drive the vehicles in the area in anticipation of the planned protest.

No city officials have spoken out against the racist disrupters. There's no question that the cops are only secondary targets. The real targets remain the Black students and citizens.

On September 3, Mayor Kevin White stepped up his year-long campaign to blame city financial woes on desegregation. Boston taxpayers may face a property tax increase of $70 per $1,000 of valuation to sustain the rise in the 1976–77 school department budget.
 
September 17, 1951
There is undisguised gloating in Washington over the signing last week at San Francisco of the pact with Japan. Publicly the pact is being painted up as notable for its "generosity," its "humaneness," its "enlightenment," etc. On this there is remarkable agreement between Gen. MacArthur and the Truman administration.

In his Cleveland speech on Sept. 6, MacArthur, while attacking the Truman administration, went out of his way to laud the pact with Japan as the embodiment of "much of human justice and enlightenment." This would-be conqueror of Asia has every reason to gloat. For the real architect of the Japan treaty is neither Dulles nor Acheson but none other than MacArthur.

The chief beneficiaries of this pact are the American imperialists and militarists; and next to them those who benefit the most are their military and imperialist counterparts in Japan.

The true meaning of the pact is that it paves the way for reviving what was formerly the strongest reactionary power in Asia, the power of Japanese imperialism and militarism.

To be sure, Washington has written many "restrictive" clauses into its pact with Japan. For example, the military forces of Japan are to be limited to ground troops. "The naval and air arms will be inhibited and will remain the province of the U.S.," assured the N.Y. Times editorial of Sept. 10.  
 
 
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