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Nothing has been funnier than your oh-so-objective reporters writing of Meredith as though he were something other than a dangling black puppet on an awful thin string...
Your story in this week's TIME [Oct. 5] reads as if you feel (or want to make somebody else feel) that Meredith is master, in control, of his own destiny, his own actions. Why, the fellow doesn't even have any idea what he's supposed to do tomorrow-beyond knowing he'll do whatever his N.A.A.C.P. lawyers, or John Doar or Burke Marshall, tell...
...blocking Meredith's entry in open defiance of a court order expressly enjoining him from interfering, Barnett chose a collision course. Such conflicts are rare, if only because it is so obvious that in a showdown of force the Federal Government will prevail. Except for three Confederate Governors arrested after the Civil War, only one incumbent state Governor-Warren Terry McCray of Indiana, in 1924-has ever been sentenced to imprisonment under federal law, and he was convicted of misuse of the mails, a felony that had nothing to do with a conflict of federal and state powers...
...Pullback. In straining to avoid violence, the Administration appeared weak and hesitant. It had tried three times to get Meredith registered; it had failed three times. Now it set out on a fourth attempt, and Attorney General Kennedy upped the escorting force level to two dozen marshals. Late in the week they set out in a motor caravan from the U.S. naval air station at Memphis, Tenn., 80 miles from Oxford. But Barnett, meanwhile, had also mustered stronger forces...
Whatever Barnett did, federal power was sure to prevail sooner or later. Attorney General Kennedy said flatly at week's end that Meredith was "going to be enrolled at the University of Mississippi." That was undoubtedly true. It was far less certain that, after he is enrolled, his stay at the university will be at all enjoyable, or that he will soon be followed there by any other Negro...