Nigger-lover
By RICHARD H. ROVERE New York THEgr fat's in the fire once more on racial inte- gration of the Little Rock, Arkansas, schools. In 1954, the United States Supreme Court said it was unconstitutional to have separate schools for Negroes and Whites. The Little Rock school board took the court seriously and proceeded with integration plans. Governor Orval Faubus called out the militia to maintain the 'peace,' and 'he felt this could best be done by turning back Negro children at the front door of Central High School in Little Rock. After temporising for quite a while, the President sent in a detail of para- troopers to prevent interference with the Negro children. The paratroopers did their job. Early this summer, however, a United States District Court granted an appeal by the Little Rock school board to postpone integration for two and a half Years. The National Association for the Ad- vancement of Coloured People promptly appealed against this ruling. The next higher court, the Cir- cuit Court of Appeals, which is directly blow the Su . preme Court, reversed the District Court's ruling, but allowed the school board a thirty-day State Governor Faubus's reply was to ask the ,tate Legislature for a law to permit the closing of any school ordered to accept Negroes. And there the matter now stands.
Roththe President and Governor Faubus have Said that their attitudes and policies are the same as they were a year ago. The President's attitude is something of a mystery (down to yesterday, he refused to say that he personally approved the Original Supreme Court decision), but his Policy is the same as it was in the Lebanon—i.e., troops—and this is also Faubus's policy. The troops Mr. Eisenhower is likely to send in will uphold the Supreme Court's view of the law and the Constitution. Faubus's will uphold Faubus's: It sounds like civil war, but there won't be one.
This story is sworn to by men of good repute. governor Faubus, who was campaigning for re- election this summer, addressed a crowd in an Arkansas town and ranted against the President, the Supreme Court, the NAACP and just about everything else. When he had done, a great shaft °f light pierced the roof of the meeting hall, and, 1°, Jesus Christ appeared. He said that He was the resurrection and the life, that those who set Than against man shall not enter the Kingdom of Heaven, that the meek and the peacemakers are blessed. The mob was quiet while He spoke; when He finished, there was a great shout through the hall —`Nigger-lover.'
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G NERAL ASSEMBLY has adopted what in the last few days has become known as 'the Arab resolution; which instructs everyone's friend, Dag .
ainniarskjtild, to take over*The big question is fudged; there will, in time, be British and.Ameri- e411 troop withdrawals and there may, irt time, be UN 'presence' in, the troubled areas. At the start Of the session the British and Americans were SaYing that the 'presence' must follow the with- urawal as the night the day, but they yielded on this, and everyone yielded a bit here and there, rld the resolution was passed eighty to nought in an eighty-one-member Assembly, which is, as everyone says, pretty good. The Dominican Re- public wasn't on hand for the vote or for most of the proceedings. It is angry with the United Nations because it allows the United States to remain a member; the United States is the country whose army failed to give passing grades to Lieutenant-General Rafael Trujillo, Jnr., Mr. Big's son, at an officer-training school in Kansas, which the General seldom attended because he was so busy attending the Misses Zsa-Zsa Gabor and Kim Novak. Little has been said of 'indirect aggression.' Mr. Dulles, who wrote the President's speech, explained to reporters that while the `words' would be used, Mr. Eisenhower, a positive thinker, was looking to the future, not to the past, and that American policy was looking for means to keep the peace rather than for rhetoric with which to describe violations of the peace. The British clung to the notion a bit longer than we did, but practically nothing has been heard of it in the general debate, and this seems to many observers a good omen. Now and then common sense does prevail. TWO OF THE RICHEST men in the country, W. Averell Harriman (railroads) and Nelson Rocke- feller (oil) will battle it out this fall for the governorship of New York State. Politicians of modest means are rubbing their hands; they ex- pect a Niagara of money—a championship con- test of the heavyweight bank accounts. Visions of sugar plums dance in their heads. They may be disappointed, for it is a characteristic of the rich in this country, especially the second- and third-generation rich, to go into politics or the arts or whatever and seek acceptance of them- selves. To buy an election or the publication of a book would spoil everything for them. They want to be loved, as human beings, not as money- bags—with the consequence that the moneybags are seldom seen and hardly ever opened.
It has never happened, at least to the best of your correspondent's knowledge, that both candi- dates in an election have been multi-millionaires. The general rule may be violated in this election, for Harriman (Democrat and incumbent) and Rockefeller (Republican) are evenly matched in most respects, including policy, and perhaps the thing will have to turn into an ordeal by hand- out. It will in any case be fun to watch. The governorship of New York is a great prize, be- cause the man who holds it is almost automati- cally a candidate for Presidential nomination.
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