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...Were Governor." "Eisenhower has lit the fires of hate,'' intoned Mississippi's Senator James Oliver Eastland. Alabama's Governor James Elisha ("Kissin' Jim'') Folsom pledged that he would disband Alabama's National Guard before he would let Eisenhower order it into federal service. "We still mourn the destruction of Hungary," said Georgia's Senator Herman Talmadge, going his colleague, Dick Russell, one better. "Now the South is threatened by the President of the U.S. using tanks and troops in the streets of Little Rock. I wish I could cast one vote...
...Journal and Guide and New York's Amsterdam News came outspoken criticism of the N.A.A.C.P. leaders who had agreed to the weak bill. Said the Amsterdam News: "When we find the N.A.A.C.P.'s Secretary, Roy Wilkins, sleeping in the same political bed with [Mississippi's] Senator Eastland we be, gin to wonder about Mr. Wilkins...
...classify Russell as a wise old scholar and Eastland and Talmadge as racists? They're three of a kind, right down the line. Can all this ridiculous hullabaloo be masking the deep paranoid fear of the Southern whites that, given equal rights, the Negro might attempt to rectify generations of persecution...
Last week the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Mississippi's Democrat James Oliver Eastland. and the House Judiciary Committee, starring Pennsylvania's Democrat Francis E. ("Tad") Walter, co-author of the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act. handed the President and the U.S. their answer. Its net: the U.S.'s prestige and the U.S.'s good faith could go hang...
Presidential Break. Senator Russell had assigned himself the most exacting and perhaps the most surprising role of all: any harsh words that had to be spoken would be spoken not by Georgia's cowlicked Talmadge, not by Mississippi's Racist Jim Eastland, but by Richard Brevard Russell himself. It was understood without words that a diatribe from a Talmadge or an Eastland would predictably get lost, as usual, in the Senate swirl; but if it came from reasonable, respected Dick Russell, a sharp blast would be heard with respectful attention. One day last month Dick Russell...