Word: boycott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Franco. Just three years ago, his people were restless, and he was a dictator at bay; the U.N. had just voted to continue its diplomatic boycott of his regime. Opening the Cortes (Parliament), he had denounced the "Masonic-Marxist-Communist" bloc at the U.N. and blustered that "our rights stand above an assembly which has no authority over us." A patter of unconvinced applause greeted his remarks...
...find it difficult to see how my statement, which could hardly be called a "directive," also could hardly be interpreted as encouraging a boycott against the National Conference for Academic Freedom, Equality, and Peace in Madison, Wisconson...
...attempt a "nation-wide boycott by college students against the Conference." In fact, as President of NSA, I encouraged students to attend the Conference as individual students who really believed in academic freedom, equality, and peace...
...then he told of the problems he faced today. "My story begins in October of 1951," he said. Shortly after he had met with the "undercover boycott"--threatened censorship of "Streetcar Named Desire" by the Catholic League of Decency, he was called before the McCarran Committee to testify on his Communist activities...
...matter is that the only official statement made by NSA in regard to the Madison meeting on academic freedom, peace and equality was to call attention to the fact that NSA was not invited and consequently was not going to participate. The headline "The NSA Urges Student Boycott" is fabricated out of the statement of a single individual, 'title used for purposes of identification only.' Individual members of NSA schools are continuing to sponsor the Madison meeting as is shown by the sponsorship of the conference at the University of Chicago by the NSA chairman...