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...with a choppy gait, Colmer looks younger than his 70 years, has gradually swung from a moderate, internationalist position to that of a diehard conservative. He is generally and initially suspicious of any federal project, unless it happens to benefit his Gulf Coast constituents. He is, of course, a segregationist, but he says he has never made an "anti-Negro" speech. For 20 years he has enjoyed his power on the Rules Committee. There his vote, along with those of Chairman Howard Smith, the courtly Virginia judge, and the four Republican members, could and often did produce...
...Senator Richard Russell and Congressman Carl Vinson, were pressuring Kennedy on Vandiver's behalf. The news was as much a surprise to Vandiver, who wants to finish out his two remaining years in the statehouse, as it was to Kennedy himself, who had no intention of naming a segregationist to the sensitive Army job. To avoid embarrassment all round, Kennedy at first allowed that Vandiver was "under consideration," then went through the motions of calling the Governor to ask if he would like the job -but let him understand that the right answer was no.* Vandiver agreeably begged...
...Fred Savage, 30, of Sierra Leone: "I realized that since Faubus is a politician not motivated by scruples, he would say anything to make his point." Most real racists refused to see the Africans at all. "I do not believe in integrated meetings of any kind," said Little Rock Segregationist Amis Guthridge. In New Orleans, White Citizens Council Leader Sam Irwin Huffed that the Africans "come down here with closed minds. They're bigots...
...schools but also in the armed services seemed a distressing anomaly among careful and intelligent appointments. To be sure, the chairmen of the Senate and House Armed Services Committee were all for the idea, but Senator Russell and Representative Vinson have both in their time displayed the milk-white segregationist crest, and both, of course, are Georgians...
...Atmosphere. That the churches' courage consists merely in advocating a relaxation of apartheid within a context of "differentiation" shows something of the climate of South Africa. But that the declaration was made at all, by the leading spiritual and moral power among the traditionally segregationist Afrikaners, is something of a milestone. Premier Verwoerd was reported to be both worried and irate. His toned-down views were presumably voiced by Die Transvaler, the Nationalist newspaper he once edited himself. "No matter how beautiful were the thoughts expressed by the consultation," editorialized the paper, "their application would lead to the collapse...