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...very delayed for any considerable period its enemies would have a chance to rally and obstruct it. "We have a good example of what vacillation on the part of a school board can do," he said, "when we see how bigots were able to re-establish segregation in the Milford, Delaware, public schools after its board wavered in their decision to desegregate...
...Hand." In Delaware, candidates of both parties have been dragged into the segregation fight almost despite themselves. Republicans generally have been blamed for an inept performance by G.O.P. Governor J. Caleb Boggs in dealing with the Milford school riots (see EDUCATION). The chief victim is Senate Candidate Herbert Warburton. He has lost ground to Democratic Senator J. Allen Frear, who consistently votes with the Senate's Southern bloc...
Last week Delaware's Republican Attorney General H. Albert Young went into court to argue on behalf of the ten Negro children who were turned out of a Milford school. Cried he, in what later turned out to be a flight of purest fancy: "If it becomes necessary for the governor of this state and its U.S. Senators, as they have expressed it to me, to lead these Negro children by the hand, after a decree of this court, into the school, they will do so." Within a few hours, both Frear and Republican Senator John Williams denied that...
...attack (his Jewish background was known in his 1950 campaign), he proved that he was no man to back down from a fight. When the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People brought suit in behalf of ten Negro students who were barred from the white Milford, Del. high school (TIME, Oct. 11), Young appeared in court to back up the N.A.A.C.P. "Here," said he. "are ten children who were attending school without incident. Why were they taken out?" Young's answer: "Mob rule...
After hearing the arguments of Young and the N.A.A.C.P., Delaware's Vice Chancellor William Marvel ruled that the ten Negroes "have a clear and legal right" to attend the Milford school. But that decision was obviously not the end of the affair. At week's end, Milford's white citizens were beginning to mutter again, and Bryant Bowles was still around to keep them aroused. "When the Negroes walk in," said he. "the whites will walk...