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...analysis, practically everyone except New York headline writers and opportunist Father Halton regretted that the initial invitation was ever tendered to Hiss. The Whig-Cliosophic Society, which sponsored the talk, originally asked a total of seventeen luminaries--including Vice-President Nixon, Generals MacArthur, Ridgeway, and Marshall, Governor Folsom, Senators Eastland, McCarthy, Kefauver, and George--to address undergraduates. Only Kefauver, and two others, Senator Sparkman and journalist William S. White, agreed, as did Hiss, to come...
...Bruce D. Bringgold '57, Whig-Clio president. "We all had Father Halton regretted that the initial invition was ever tendered to Hiss. The Whig-Cliosophic Society which sponsored the talk, originally asked a total of seventeen luminaries--including Vice-President Nixon, Generals MacArthur, Ridgeway, and Marshall, Governor Folsom, Senators Eastland, McCarthy, Kefauver, and George--to address undergraduates...
Your cover was degraded by that nauseating, odious, ignoble, villainous picture of that venomous, Negro-hating "gentleman" known as James O. Eastland. That imperialistic background in the picture was hideous and signified the serfdom of the South...
...altogether fitting to see the discredited Confederate flag beside Senator Eastland as you picture him raising the clenched fist of racial bigotry in a speech in Alabama...
...whole, your article is not an unfair appraisal. But when you say "Eastland is today one of the most widely disliked men in the U.S.," you could with equal truth have added that he is also today one of the most widely loved men in the South...