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...week's end Tennessee's Kefauver dropped into Nashville to tighten the wires on his home fences. Asked why he had refused to sign the Southern congressional manifesto (TIME, March 26) condemning the Supreme Court decision on desegregation of the public schools, Kefauver said evenly: "The Supreme Court decision is the law of the land. I could not sign or agree with the Southern manifesto; we cannot secede from the Supreme Court. The manifesto can only result in increasing bitterness and hard feelings and adding confusion to an already difficult situation. The matter must now be resolved...
...floor of the U.S. Senate last week, Georgia's Walter F. George read a manifesto signed by 82 Southern Representatives and 19 Southern Senators. It pledged the signers to exert "all lawful means" toward reversing the Supreme Court's desegregation decision, and it appealed to Southerners "to scrupulously refrain from disorder and lawless acts...
...idea for a Southern manifesto was conceived by South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond, who enlisted the powerful aid of Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd. At a caucus of Southern Senators, Thurmond produced mimeographed copies of his own arm-waving call for nullification. The caucus pushed Thurmond aside, ordered the paper rewritten by more temperate Senators. The final version was written mostly by Georgia's Senator Richard Russell, with amendments by Florida's Spessard Holland and Texas' Price Daniel and polishing by Arkansas' highly polished J. William Fulbright, a liberal hero. At that point...
Many signers regretted the manifesto and its party-splitting implications. Said one Southern Senator: "Now, if these Northerners won't attack us and get mad and force us to close ranks, most of us will forget the whole thing and maybe we can pretty soon pretend it never happened." It was not that easy: during the week, a succession of Northern Democrats attacked the manifesto. Not a Southerner arose in reply...
...duck the humiliation and inconvenience of arrest, Adhemar took to his (Beechcraft and flew off to Asunción, Paraguay, leaving his lawyers to seek a writ of habeas corpus from the federal supreme court and deploy themselves for an appeal. As a matter of course, Adhemar issued a manifesto before he took off. "My flag will not be lowered," it read. "Without hatred or rancor for those who attacked me so cruelly, I ask the people to wait quietly for better days. Justice is often tardy, but sure...