Having worked the classroom for all its demagogic worth. Arkansas' Democratic Governor Orval Faubus last week descended to what the Washington Post and Times Herald called "the lavatory level." U.S. paratroopers, he cried, were escorting Negro students into the girls' locker room at Little Rock's Central High School—and were lingering around to leer at ungarbed young Southern white womanhood. The facts of the matter proved Orval Faubus less a master of morals than mendacity.
Faubus' latest lie came in a letter addressed to "Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker, Commander of Occupation Troops." Because of the sneering (and incorrect) address. Walker,...
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