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...Faubus named and misnamed a group of Arkansas "integrationists"' who "colored, slanted and falsified reports in TIME and Newsweek and in other publications." Concluded he of his fellow Arkansans: "They have a right to their viewpoint, but they and others have bent every effort to contact all newsmen from out of the state and to indoctrinate them with a biased and prejudiced viewpoint toward...
...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...
...will take a long time to settle down," she cried. "You can't have a strong country with a nitwit like that for President." And Harry S. Truman of Independence, Mo. told friends: "If this had happened when I was in the White House, I would have had Faubus in Washington in 24 hours." Added his wife: "He would, too. It might not have been the right thing to do, but he would have done something...
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...
...posture of ihe law on any given day may be bad," said another Justice official. "But law is law. Faubus had a right to have those National Guard troops around the school until a court ruled otherwise. You can't go into a community where everybody is against you and force integration because you want it. But if law and order are on your side, the community will end up on your side. There is a native tendency among Americans to be law-abiding...