Word: actions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This action, however, could not remove the blot on the record of U.S. military justice. It would remain as a terrible warning that, at times, the judges can be conquered by the forces of evil they are supposed...
...session, the Dutch had made every effort to make the world forget the war and concentrate on Indonesia's future. Twelve days after the Security Council ordered him to, the Dutch commander in Indonesia, Lieut. General S. H. Spoor, had told his troops to cease fire (except for "action against roaming groups and gangs or individuals who try to cause disturbances"). Pale, tired Dutch Prime Minister Willem Drees flew to Batavia, to get Republicans to cooperate in a Dutch-sponsored Indonesian interim government. Queen Juliana promised Indonesia "order, prosperity, freedom, independence and sovereignty in a federal state...
...Lake Success, only Dutch Representative J. H. van Royen had kind words for his country's action. U.N.'s Good Offices Committee, which has been trying to mediate between the Dutch and Indonesians, gloomily suggested it might as well quit. Philippine Representative Carlos P. Romulo deplored the Council's "labyrinthine self-justifications." Australia's peppery Norman Makin cried that the Security Council could not "bury its head in the sands of Lake Success." Indonesia's L. N. Palar warned: "This is only the beginning of our war of self-defense...
Franco's action was obviously a calculated contribution to his new "liberal" buildup. But as silver-haired old Joseph Cuby, the acting rabbi, intoned a psalm in benediction of Spain and of "Spain's head of state," his voice shook with sincere emotion. At the end of the service, he said proudly: "Brothers, do not forget, we will meet here again Friday next, for evening prayer-openly...
...speech last September threatening to hang his enemies that brought Father Dunphy back into action. He chided the President from his pulpit. "It is not Christian," he wrote to El Pueblo, "for those in high places to foment or incite to civil war. Nor is it Christian to elevate hatred to the extreme of wanting to annihilate those who hold differing opinions...