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Nervous Kibitzers. The Democratic strategy was successful in upsetting nearly all Republican alignments. Some Old Guardsmen, e.g., New York's Representative Dan Reed, the ranking G.O.P. member of the Ways and Means Committee, and Pennsylvania's Ed Martin, chilly in the past toward the Eisenhower Administration, now found themselves backing Ike in his refusal to push the panic button. Yet many devoted Eisenhower Republicans found themselves nervously eyeing the Administration's play of the hand. Among them: New Jersey's Clifford Case, New York's Jack Javits, and Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper...
Moving enthusiastically to enforce Bourguiba's order confining all French soldiers to barracks, Tunisian National Guardsmen threw up roadblocks, and armed civilians dug slit trenches around France's ten Tunisian bases. Three men set up a machine gun at the canal at the entrance to the great naval base of Bizerte to bar the entrance of further French vessels. At other bases, food supplies were shut off. When a French diplomat formally requested permission to revictual the garrison, Vice Premier Bahi Ladgham told him coldly: "Leave Tunisia and you can find all the food you need." Should...
...indoors, took older children out of school. Neighbors checked in and checked out with each other, paralyzed Lincoln's telephone circuits with the heaviest traffic since V-J day. District court was recessed. Business firms booked downtown hotel rooms for employees who worked late. The governor mobilized National Guardsmen to stand watch at the National Bank of Commerce when reports got around that Starkweather intended to rob it. Sheriff Merle Karnopp called for a posse, and 100 men armed with deer rifles, shotguns and pistols were soon milling around his office in the white Victorian Lancaster County courthouse...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18--The Army has prepared orders to withdraw all remaining regular troops from Little Rock before Thanksgiving, and leave to National Guardsmen the enforcement of a court order for integration at the Arkansas city's Central High School...
President Eisenhower has refused to withdraw regular Army troops and federalized Arkansas National Guardsmen from the school until he is satisfied that the court-endorsed Central High integration plan will be enforced by local authorities...