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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Public reaction in Argentina was a deepening of dislike for the U.S. Franklin Roosevelt had hopefully said that "the vast majority of the people of Argentina have remained steadfast in their faith in their own free, democratic traditions." But a Buenos Aires audience rose to boo and catcall insults when Hull appeared in a newsreel shot of the Dumbarton Oaks conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Decline of the Good Neighbor | 10/9/1944 | See Source »

...strength of this "rescindist" movement convinced U.A.W. officials that they had better not try to handle the situation alone. They called in suave, spellbinding1 C.I.O. President Philip Murray. Before he even mentioned the no-strike pledge, Philip Murray was being loudly booed. Murray raised his hand for silence. Calmly and politely he asked the convention not to boo. Then he warned the quiet audience that reneging on the no-strike pledge might cause the union to crash beneath irate public opinion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: No Collective Begging | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

Every once in a while the crowd would boo as more women, with expressionless faces, were hustled in to be shaved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: At Charfres | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

...when these gutter-dwellers began to boo, with grim efficiency other Frenchmen, women & children singled out the hooters, drove them with surreptitious cuffs and curses from the Avenue. The prisoners grinned and marched on, chins up. Lest the parade arouse a real demonstration, the Germans sneaked the prisoners into a side street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Gauntlet of Hate | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

...bright with flags: seven Russian, one American, no British and a spate of Italian with the arms of the House of Savoy removed. Three of Italy's antiroyalist parties-Communists, Socialists and Carlo Sforza's Actionists-brought out some 7,000 cheering, rain-soaked Neapolitans to boo Badoglio and the King, shout fiercely for a republic. The biggest meeting so far permitted by the Allies, it was a Neapolitan answer to Churchill's endorsement of their unwanted government.* The show ended with a ragged Partisan from Marshal Tito on stage, shouting "Down with the King and Badoglio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Flounder on the Left | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

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