Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fights in Nanking between soldiers and anti-government student demonstrators injured 144 persons late yesterday following departure of an official mission to talk peace with the Chinese Communists. The students charged the government was making insincere peace overtures and that it actually was preparing for continued civil war. They also demanded better living conditions and attacked "American imperialism...
Elliott Perkins '23, instructor in History, emphasized the part that religious feeling and "matters of principle" played in swaying the middle classes during the English Civil War. "Look at the members of the Massachusetts Bay Colony," Perkins said. "Their motives came more from principles than from economics. In the seventeenth century, religion was the Englishman's intellectual food...
...organization, Chira emphasized, will not take specific actions but will merely "work as a clearing house for civil liberties problems and will bring them to the attention of all groups...
Yesterday the council also voted to formulate its activities which would be: (1) gathering information on pertinent legislation before the General Court; (2) sponsoring research projects on civil liberties; (3) arranging forums and debates on civil liberties...
...committee will be called the Inter-Group Council on Civil Rights...