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...France's presence in Syria and Lebanon, the man who had presided over the return of Morocco's Sultan ben Youssef from exile -and they had reacted fiercely and predictably. The blunder was compounded by Mollet's hurried abandonment of Catroux in the face of mob threats...
...quiet Calle Miguel Angel, a mob of blue-shirted Falange bullies broke into the International Institute for girls, an American-owned building which also houses a progressive Spanish school. While police calmly looked on, ignoring the screams of women, the Falangists pinned down School Director Phyllis Turnbull of Binghamton, N.Y. and her staff, began smashing windows, lights, chairs, blackboards...
...Southern universities that have been forced to open their doors to Negroes,* none have reacted so violently-or surrendered so abjectly to mob pressure-as Alabama. All week a storm of hatred swirled around the lone figure of Autherine Juanita Lucy, 26, the first Negro ever admitted to a white public school or university in the state...
...brutal and senseless mob attack, besides turning the stomach of even his warm supporters, apparently went beyond the dictator's intentions. He blustered that the opposition's "intellectual guerrillas" were to blame, and threatened to "fight back without quarter." He also moved fast to hush up news of the massacre. By quickly blocking news cables, the government successfully kept the story out of most papers abroad; only travelers' reports, days later, spelled out the ugly truth. The government's censors muzzled the local press...
...crowd of 300 had already gathered around the hall, suddenly began to chant "Hey, hey, ho, ho. Autherine must go." At the end of class Dean of Women Sarah L. Healy and Carmichael's assistant, Jefferson Bennett, led Autherine out a back door to a waiting car. The mob spotted them, began throwing eggs and stones as the car sped off to Bibb Graves Hall for Autherine's next class (children's literature). Autherine had to use a back door once again, but the crowd kept pelting the car with rocks, shouting at Bennett, "Kill him! Kill...