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...press conferences, TV appearances and proclamations, Governor Orval Faubus tried hard last week to keep segregationist passions aboil. The presence of federal marshals in Little Rock, he cried, is more serious than the presence last year of federal troops. The marshals "will be met in many situations with a cold fury that did not exist before." When a group of Arkansas' Presbyterian ministers protested the closing of Little Rock's four high schools (TIME, Sept. 22), Southern Baptist Faubus accused them of being leftists, "brainwashed by left-wingers and Communists." Not even a stern protest from Methodist clergymen...
Closed Circuit. But such fulminations could not hide the fact that Faubus, like Virginia's Governor Almond, was having his troubles with citizens who simply wanted the high schools open again, Negroes or no. The first bursts of indignation came when the Little Rock school board interpreted his school-closing order as automatic cancellation of Central High's cherished football schedule. Faubus got out of that by accusing the school board of being integrationist, and the hapless board, already threatened with recall by petition, gave a green light to football practice and the game between Central High...
...from transient journalists in the Summer School. Since the News was published essentially as an organ of the School, it conformed--as much as it could--to its restrictions. The sensitive administration disliked controversy; thus a story on reactions or Arkansan students to the large primary victory of Orval Faubus was banned by the School on the grounds that it might to "too controversial." The administration became excited when a speech was reported in which only one side of a disputed question was aired; this, they felt, allied the Summer School with that one side. In the midst...
...Politics. That crisis is not only Virginia's or even the South's: it is the nation's. Far more than anything that jackanapes (by Virginia standards) Governor Orval Faubus can do in ragtag (by Virginia standards) Arkansas, Virginia will set the lasting pattern of Southern integration-or defiance. Virginia's Senator Byrd has bitterly recognized that fact: the forces of integration, he said last month, are "working on the theory that if Virginia can be brought to her knees, they can march through the rest of the South singing Hallelujah...
Never an integrationist. Editor Ashmore won a 1958 Pulitzer Prize for his protests against the Little Rock mob and the way it was goaded into lawlessness by Governor Orval Faubus. "The people of Little Rock," he wrote a year ago, "will not allow a tiny, militant minority to take over Central High School and run it under mob rule." Gazette circulation dropped from 99,573 to 88,068, while the pro-Faubus Arkansas Democrat took up the slack. Ashmore refused to be bullied, and an attempted advertising boycott failed...