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...Governor Thomas Stanley of Virginia called a special session of the General Assembly for next month, to enact a program of all-out resistance to integration. Among the things the governor wants: power to withhold funds from any locality "whenever it is determined the public interest, or safety, or welfare so requires," i.e., whenever the schools desegregate. Only eight months ago, Governor Stanley had apparently endorsed the principle that local districts could desegregate if they wished. But since then, Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd had called for "massive resistance" to all integration. Last week Governor Stanley declared flatly: "There...
...readily promised to observe the police deadline. The holdout: the Daily News, where a reporter promised to relay the police request to the city desk and call back. By 8 p.m. Police Secretary John MacDonald started telephoning the other morning papers to get formal confirmation of their pledge to withhold the story. But, said police, at about 8:30 p.m., the News had called to say it could not hold the story; by then a small early edition of the News was on the street with a brief bulletin on the case. Half an hour later the tabloid...
...that could be made. Because all those countries know that they can criticize the U.S. without any fear of any reprisals, or that we will change the principles which actuate us. We are not trying to run a popularity contest, and we don't give or withhold assistance on the basis of whether people say nice things about...
Should a newsman refuse to identify confidential sources of his information about a crime? Long tradition says he should. But legally-except in twelve states that have laws reinforcing the tradition-he has no more right than any other citizen to withhold information. In Fort Worth last week, William Prescott Allen, 60, publisher of the Laredo, Texas Times (circ. 15,283), faced the choice of revealing sources or going to jail...
...brainstorm of New York Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, this amendment would withhold federal funds from any school district that refused to obey the Supreme Court decision prohibiting segregation in public schools. Powell argues that no federal money should be spent on segregated school programs because such construction would invite Southern districts to circumvent the law. If federal funds are used to build segregated schools now, Powell suggests, these structures will be illogically situated when desegregation arrives...