Word: faubused
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Obviously the paradoxical, conflicting Southern argument isn't worthy of serious refutation. The ridiculous emotional thrattle is indistinguishable from one of Faubus' "better" speeches...
...Benito, Texas, veteran of years of church service at Waco, Texas and at the famous St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Richmond (where Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee worshiped during the Civil War), devoted breakfast time next day to a talk with Governor Orval Faubus. He got what he thought was a promise of support for constructive mediation. Afterwards the bishop got a letter from Faubus replete with subtly inflammatory Faubus phrases (e.g., "to place the blame it would be necessary to reach far beyond the borders of this state"). The bishop did get unequivocal support from...
Through the turmoil. Harry Ashmore's telephone shrilled around the clock with threatening calls from agitators, who were fired by Governor Faubus' cry that Editor Ashmore was the worst of all possible culprits, "an ardent integrationist." Little Rock's white-supremacist Capital Citizens' Council (annual dues: $5) dubbed Ashmore "Public Enemy No. i." Eagerly abetted by some less scrupulous competitors, a statewide boycott against "that nigger-lovin' paper" had cost the 137-year-old Gazette (circ. 99,573) 3,000 subscribers by week...
...Heiskell, 84-year-old president of the sturdily Democratic Gazette, Editor Ashmore emphasized from the day of the Supreme Court's school-integration ruling in 1954 that there could be "no choice between compliance and defiance." Far from urging integration, the Gazette, which had helped elect Orval Faubus in two gubernatorial campaigns, backed his efforts to postpone desegregation by "moderate," legal means. But when Faubus switched last month from legalistic buck-passing to outright defiance, Harry Ashmore's conscience-pricking editorials (more than 40 so far) repeatedly warned of the tragic consequences. When the mobs moved into...
...that U.S. paratroopers landed, ex-Infantry Officer (Lieut. Colonel) Harry Ashmore sadly welcomed the invasion of Little Rock as the shock that might prompt Arkansas to "regain perspective, restore peace, sustain the law." The Gazette seemed even to prompt the enthusiastically pro-Faubus evening Democrat to aim a couple of mildly censorious editorials against the governor, but anti-Ashmore mutterings grew to shouts, and some businessmen started cornering the Gazette's Publisher Hugh Patterson to rail against his editor. Cracked Ashmore: "I'm lucky in having a publisher who does not consider what he hears at the countryclub...