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...whole, factual story on Little Rock consist only of interviewing Orval Faubus, taking his worn-thin word at its face value, and stopping there? TIME had such an interview. But TIME correspondents also interviewed Arkansas integrationists and Arkansas segregationists. They also interviewed Orval Faubus' father, his cousins and his friends in the Ozark hills, along with his political cronies and his political enemies. They also interviewed Little Rock city and school authorities. Justice Department officials in Washington. U.S. District Judge Ronald Davies. pool-hall characters standing around Little Rock's Central High School, and the Negro children kept...
Bess Truman expressed a popular sentiment: in frustration at the continued defiance of the U.S. Government by Arkansas' Democratic Governor Orval Eugene Faubus, the cry echoed across the land for the Eisenhower Administration to "do something." But the emotional swelling ignored a central point: the Administration was indeed doing something -as it should be done. It was keeping the issue of Little Rock integration off the political stump and in the courts of the U.S. There last week Orval Faubus lost the showdown...
...process of justice was allowed to take its orderly course, and it ended with Orval Faubus withdrawing his militiamen from Little Rock's Central High School. That done, the President of the U.S. could throw the power of moral suasion into achieving peaceful integration in Little Rock. "I am confident," said President Eisenhower, "that they [the people of Little Rock] will vigorously oppose any violence by extremists . . . I am confident that the citizens of the city of Little Rock and the State of Arkansas will welcome this opportunity to demonstrate that in their city and in their state, proper...
...Ronald Davies glanced at his case file, routinely called up the next item of business: "Civil Case No. 3113 On A Motion For Preliminary Injunction." But Case 3113 was far from routine; it brought to a 'historic showdown the issue between the U.S. and Arkansas' Democratic Governor Orval Faubus, who had defied the law of the land in calling out his National Guard to prevent school integration...
...Orval Faubus, who had been dignified the previous weekend by a conference with the President of the U.S. (TIME, Sept. 23), returned from Newport all full of himself, soon gave up any pretense of living up to his implied agreement to start withdrawing National Guard troops from Little Rock's Central High School. He desperately tried to whip up backers for his claim that Little Rock had been about to erupt into violence at the start of integrated classes. Example: he called in a Little Rock city official, displayed a schoolbook with a square section of pages...