Word: camped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...answer to assertions by Robert Cartwright, a high State Department official, that Worthy had pleaded guilty to failing to report to a conscientious objectors' camp during the Second World War and had served one day in jail for this misdemeanor before finally entering a camp, Worthy said the following...
...classified as a conscientious objector. I refused to enter a conscientious objectors' camp because the government was assigning men geographically on the grounds of race and color.... I did not serve one day or any longer time in jail, and I never went to a conscientious objectors' camp...
...question of Worthy's draft record was raised last week during testimony by Robert Cartwright, a high State Department official. Cartwright said that a man named William Worthy pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court at Philadelphia in June, 1944 to charges of failing to report to a camp for conscientious objectors. Cartwright also said that this man had served one day in jail and later had gone to the camp...
Though pockets of prejudice remain, the West German government has labored to atone for the dead by its treatment of the living: by helping to finance the building of synagogues to replace the 300 burned down by the Nazis; by paying every Jew who was in a concentration camp 150 Deutsche mark ($36) for every month he spent in camp; by paying 6,000 DM to any Jew who returns to Germany and helping him to find housing and a job; by providing him with preferences in government loans and contracts if he sets up in business. In addition, Germany...
...most faithful, our truest friends." Kadar thanked the Russians effusively for their bloody intervention in Hungary last autumn, in which an estimated 25,000 Hungarians lost their lives. "The whole world now knows," Kadar said, "that every socialist state can count on the help of the Communist camp and above all of the Soviet Union." Then Kadar and hosts drove off for "ideological and economic talks," or, if things did not have to be phrased so diplomatically...