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...essential issue, said the appellate court's majority opinion, written by Judge Marion C. Matthes, was "whether overt public resistance, including mob protest, constitutes sufficient cause to nullify an order of the federal court." To that question the Circuit Court gave a stern answer: "The time has not yet come in these United States when an order of a federal court must be whittled away, watered down or shamefully withdrawn in the face of violent and unlawful acts of individual citizens...
...Most Serious Problem." The political battle was stalemated, too. At his press conference last week, President Eisenhower made it clear that, if necessary, he would again send troops to Little Rock to squelch violent defiance of federal court orders. Each state, he said, is duty bound to keep mob violence from frustrating "the preservation of individual rights as determined by a court decree . . . My feelings are exactly as they were a year ago." At the same time, the President again declined to bring the moral influence of his office to bear on the integration issue. In a remarkable self-evaluation...
...KING MOB (249 pp.)-Christopher Hibbert-World...
Sacked City. Outside Parliament the demonstrators were joined by "ruffians and street boys, pickpockets and prostitutes." As the carriages carrying peers and M.P.s began to arrive, this mixed mob went berserk. The great Edmund Burke received no worse than shrieks of "obscene invective," but the Duke of Northumberland was beaten up, the Lord Chief Justice stripped of his wig. The Bishops of Lincoln and Lichfield were "plastered with mud and excrement"; the Archbishop of York was shoved about until he agreed to cry out "No Popery...
During succeeding days and nights, marching in crazed, drunken columns, the mob smashed, looted and burned the Catholic chapels of continental ambassadors. The rioters wrecked breweries and distilleries, pumping raw gin onto the flames through the hoses of fire engines, rolling barrels of fat into the bonfires until the London sky blazed with a red glare not seen again until World War II. Methodically, the mob went to work on London's storied prisons-Newgate, Bridewell, Fleet -turning a stream of criminals loose. "London offered on every side," said an eyewitness, "the picture of a city sacked and abandoned...