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’ é Lo, x ‘ + : FE Portrait. bee | “Of a Court. eee ee ee . F hope it is not too late to remark on how the_Supreme Court ‘ st showed up when it met last week and Hstened -to the argumen about postponing the opening of the integrated schools in Little e No matter how much the Confederate twing—overriors Faubus and Aimond—may twist and turn and squirm in their evasive tactics, they will in the end come up against a Supreme Court which Phas given a sign to the nation and the world. The sign was that the CLIPPIN G FROM THE me will not equivocate and will not yield, All the tricks of shutting the schools, holding plebiscites, re- . N.Y POST opening them as “private” schools with state “donations,” “assign- wwe ments" ona Jim Crow pattefn—all will be of no avail. It is clear EDITION. 7th. Rm Frat, that the court as constituted today is sophisticated enough to strip patrp SEP 1 71958 PACE. FO2TATDED BY NY DIVISION away the mask of hypocrisy that covers the true intent of the white a supremacists, and courage@us enough to confront and defy the ugly i . visage of racial hatred. If there were any doubt of this hitherto, a reading of the ques- . tions which the Justices put to the counsel for the Little Rock Scheol { Board at last week's hearing should dispel it. (Incidentally, I hope Fi The New York Times will continue .to give verbatim coverage to § | ' t these historic Supreme Court hearings. If nothing else gains en-. trance to heaven for the publisher and editors of The Times, this should do it} _. RE: RACLAL SITUATIONS * * + . ne got from this particuiar session beth a total portrait of the ' Supreme Court and a set of individual profiles as each of the Justices asked his questions or was silent. I start with Justice Frankfurter because he ts easily the most controversial and dramatic member ‘of the court, as well as the | oldest. A number of the bright young men who have written re- | j cently about the court have had fun with Frankfurter’s way of | , treating the lawyers as if they were back in his old Harvard Law 1° ye f / GL ao, ° i BUFILE = School class as students. | Statistically, Frankfurter {s ahead of ali his colleagues in the . umber of questions and comments he throws at the lawyers—to ‘ much so that former Chiet Fustice Vanderbilt of New Jersey” used to advise young lawyers about what to do with the “Felix problem.” '{ et no one can deny that {t was Frankfurter, last week, who kept J ring questions showing up the role of Faubus in the whole Litge we (- Z mess. He restated the argument of Richard Buéler, the Li a, k School Board’s lawyer, with the utmost clarity to sho REC- §) -7 a7 oad mE he hoard had | been doing pretty well until the governor step NOT ; OT Tr RETA “TR DED we Pg NR ag 184 OCT 10 1958 mane RnteinieMemtemtantemeren) nf 9 OU D0 0CT 141988 ++ an ne en ee er ce mg greene ee