When three Negroes applied for admission to graduate schools of the University of Tennessee this fall, President C. E. Brehm rushed to the state attorney general with a question: In view of recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings (TIME, June 12), would Tennessee have to take them in?
Last week Attorney General Roy H. Beeler gave his opinion: yes. The attorney general could not conceal his deep uneasiness: "I am fearful that . . . strife and turmoil will be engendered." But, he concluded, "we in the South now have no other alternative. We must bow to the inevitable and go along as good citizens of the United States."