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...special session of the Virginia General Assembly in Richmond. His duty, as he saw it, was a sad one. Faced with U.S. and Virginia Supreme Court orders (TIME, Feb. 2) to integrate four Negroes into white public schools in Arlington County (pop. 277,400) and 17 in Norfolk (pop. 294,300), Almond had either to propose new forms of resistance, which would surely be judged unconstitutional, or to comply. Almond's decision, imposed by his lawyer's mind on his Southern politician's emotions: accept the inevitable and the lawful, with good grace...
When Harry Ashmore, executive editor of the Arkansas Gazette described the collapse of "passive resistance" in Virginia as the fall of Richmond, he exaggerated. But if the opening of schools to Negro students in Norfolk and Arlington cannot be compared to Richmond or Appomattox, it can, hopefully perhaps, be termed a Gettysburg...
This start toward peaceable integration in Virginia can only be praised. The attitude in Arlington County, across the Potomac from Washington, D.C., or in Norfolk cannot, though, be compared to that in Little Rock or places in the "deep south," for the state of Jefferson and Lee has always retained some aura of respect for law. But the sequence of last month's events in Virginia may encourage the southern moderates who wish to comply with the Supreme Court decision of 1954 and who want to keep their schools open rather than battle at Armageddon. Moderates in Atlanta and Charleston...
...Negro pupils came and went unmolested at schools in Norfolk and Arlington County. In each community, a few white children refused to attend school with them, picked up their books and left...
President Eisenhower, concerned in press conference about 5,500 Navy children locked out or threatened at Norfolk, raised a question about the South that applied to Governor Almond: "Is the citizen, be he an official or be he a man that is working in civil life and outside the Government, ready to obey the laws of his state and his nation...