Happy Birthday, National Review: White people remember you fondly

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This year, the editors of NRO are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the National Review's founding.

Atrios chimes in with this golden oldie from 1957, entitled Why The South Must Prevail:

The central question that emerges . . . is whether the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas in which it does not prevail numerically? The sobering answer is Yes – the White community is so entitled because, for the time being, it is the advanced race. It is not easy, and it is unpleasant, to adduce statistics evidencing the cultural superiority of White over Negro: but it is a fact that obtrudes, one that cannot be hidden by ever-so-busy egalitarians and anthropologists.

National Review believes that the South's premises are correct. . . . It is more important for the community, anywhere in the world, to affirm and live by civilized standards, than to bow to the demands of the numerical majority.

The use of the word "obtrude" seems, to me, to indicate that this was written by William F. Buckley.

What do you think?

P.S. Every one of us has probably written something that we regretted later; many of us have even apologized for it. I know I have.

Did Buckley ever apologize for writing this? Or, at least, publishing it?