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Sirs: Here's an orchid for Rankin, Bilbo, Governor Bailey and "Ole Miss" too. Just passed in review about two hours ago for His Excellency the Governor and his 140 (no kidding) Honorary Colonels...
White Rule. Many a white Southerner believes that the Negro is a happy, simple creature who laughs and sings, content with his lot, unless he is "stirred up" by radical Yankee agitators. Summing up this popular philosophy last week, Mississippi's John Elliott Rankin lashed out: "The Negroes . . . are having their hope of peace and harmony with their white neighbors destroyed by ... parlor pinks in the Department of Justice [who] are already starting to harass the Southern states as a result of the blunder of the Supreme Court...
...Army went out of its way last week to spike grisly rumors that fantastic numbers of U.S. soldiers have been dreadfully maimed. Brig. General Fred W. Rankin, chief consultant in surgery, reported: 1,194 soldiers have had limbs amputated;* 68 of these have lost two limbs. Rankin added, "There was not a single triple amputation nor was there a single quadruple, or so-called 'basket type' of case...
Your stand on Rankin and the letter you published [TIME, March 6] sure hit the spot. I have been waiting for you to get tough and assume your rightful place in shaping Democracy that speaks for all men. Don't lapse back now. Hit 'em often and hard...
...Letters received were overwhelmingly damnatory of Mississippi's Rankin...