Word: condemned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through a hole in his front teeth, he testified that he had never given anyone the Mau Mau oath. On the contrary, he had tried to stop the Mau Mau, but his own arrest had unleashed the bloody uprisings. Like Archbishop Makarios on Cyprus, he disowned but failed to condemn terror. "I did as much as I could," said he. "I told my people to let the Mau Mau disappear like the roots of the fig tree...
Accepting Liabilities. In Brussels. Socialist and Communi&t Deputies made a tumultuous attack on the coalition Catholic-Liberal government. Cried one: "You not only condemn to death the 18,000 Borinage miners but the entire region-its shopkeepers, all other industries, everyone who is dependent on them." Catholic Deputy Fred-Bertrand, a former miner, shouted in reply: "Do you think you'll attract foreign companies and new investment by creating this revolution?" A government minister promised "replacement jobs" for the miners but was hooted down when unable to give any details. Premier Gaston Eyskens refused to consider nationalizing...
...said Dulles, the U.S. needs more than ever before to advance the rule of law as a "shield and protector of those who rely on good faith in international engagements." Specifically, the U.S.-and the other members of the U.N.-need to: ¶ Condemn more and tolerate less the anticommunity actions of the Communist bloc. "Those nations should be made to feel the weight of public disapproval . . . Unless the U.N. becomes, for all, an instrumentality of peace through justice and law, then some alternative must be found." ¶ Intensify within the U.N. General Assembly the quest-"in my view, sometimes...
Appeals for mercy kept coming in. A student group in Uruguay wrote Castro to condemn the "savage" executions. Costa Rica's ex-President Jose ("Pepe") Figueres, an early Castro supporter, sent a short note "suggesting" that Castro postpone his planned Costa Rica visit. Castro was annoyed but unmoved. "Have you seen the pictures of the Cubans murdered by Batista?" he demanded. "Ave Maria Purisima! The dead shout out for justice...
...this time in fact is spent either earning money to pay the plumber or working like a plumber." He mentions such mundanities, Riesman writes, "because I see a number of graduate students who doggedly insist on going into teaching because they feel that if they entered business they would condemn themselves to meanness and triviality...