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...they were. The last dozen or so of the 250 National Guardsmen who had moved in on Central High School and the executive mansion two weeks before pulled out quietly as Orval Faubus was speaking. That left the city of Little Rock free to go on about its business-if Orval Faubus, by manufacturing the myth of violence, had not in fact whipped up the reality...
...Arriving at the Southern Governors' Conference in Sea Island, Georgia, Faubus explained to newsmen that he had first called out the guard because 1) integrationists had planned to make a big showcase out of integration in Little Rock. and 2) segregationists, catching wind of the plan had threatened violence to stop it. t Including TIME, for its"colored, slanted and falsified reports" (see Publisher's Letter...
...sooner had Ronald Davies arrived in Little Rock than he was deep in the historic integration case brought on by Governor Orval Faubus' defiance of the U.S. Government. Davies fully understood the delicacy of his situation: he kept to himself, left his Sam Peck Hotel room only to walk to the Federal Court Building across the street. Away from his friends and his family (he has two sons, three daughters), friendly, family-minded Ronald Davies began to understand for the first time what New York's famed Judge Harold Medina once said to him: a judge is alone...
Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus had barely left Newport after talking to President Eisenhower when Harlem's Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Baptist minister, demanded a presidential audience for Negro leaders, to wit, Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Ike agreed, leaving vague the time and place...
...daring to insert politics into this sensitive question. How dare Adlai Stevenson criticize Eisenhower when just eight days before, on a national telecast, he told the national audience that he could do nothing if he was President in the present crisis? . . . And, finally, let's not forget that Faubus is a Democrat, and his two Democratic Senators, [J. William] Fulbright and [John] McClellan, have refused to condemn...