...Eisenhower, in Crisis, echoed the NAACP in underscoring the international implications of the controversy: "Our enemies are gloating over this incident and using it everywhere to misrepresent our whole nation." The cartoonist Herb Block, in a popular illustration of the day, showed people in Africa and Asia unbelievably...

...difficult to exaggerate the harm that is being done to the prestige, and influence ... of our nation . . . Our enemies are gloating over this incident, and using it everywhere to misrepresent our whole nation. l86 Domestic policy and foreign policy had thus become linked. The liberation of Western colonies in...

...difficult to exaggerate the harm that is being done to the prestige, and influence ... of our nation. . . . Our enemies are gloating over this incident, and using...it everywhere to misrepresent our whole nation.''' The Little Rock incident was a conflict within the American state. The issue at stake was the authority...

...that has been done to the nation in the eyes of the world. At a time when we face a grave situation abroad because of the hatred that Communism bears...incident and using it everywhere to misrepresent our nation. We are portrayed as a violator of those standards of conduct which the peoples of the world...

...advantage to the international policies of the United States.2 It would be difficult to exaggerate the harm being done to the prestige and influence, and indeed...and using it everywhere to misrepresent our whole nation.3 The United States aspires for world leadership. She is anxious to introduce democracy in China,...

...hint of approval for the federal court decisions underlying the situation, emphasizing instead how "our enemies are gloating over this incident and using it everywhere to misrepresent the whole nation." Above all, he regretted how "it would be difficult to exaggerate the harm that is...

...prestige and influence, and indeed to the safety, of our nation and the world. Our enemies are [ fig gloating over this incident and using it everywhere to misrepresent our whole nation." Eisenhower was echoing the concerns of his secretary of state, John Foster Dulles, who had reported...

...public schools: In the South, as elsewhere, citizens are keenly aware of the tremendous disservice . . . that has been done to the nation in the eyes of the...and using it everywhere to misrepresent our whole nation.27 Politicians outside the South supported integration as a way to gain US allies in the Third...

...to the prestige and influence, and indeed to the safety, of our nation and the world." He continued, "Our enemies are gloating over this incident and using it everywhere to misrepresent our whole nation." Eisenhower concluded the speech with the hope that after Arkansas's citizens stopped interfering with...

...stressing the international ramifications of the crisis: "It would be difficult to exaggerate the harm being done to the prestige and influence, and indeed...and using it everywhere to misrepresent our whole nation."43 Eisenhower's intervention received mostly positive intemational response, though some accused...