Word: condemners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over the Hungarian executions-a chorus that included some voices the Soviets evidently had not expected to hear. In Geneva last week the International Labor Organization expelled Communist Hungary's delegates. In the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, the local Communist branch demanded that the national party publicly condemn the executions, and even Prime Minister Nehru felt obliged to chime in with a "most distressing...
...within weeks. Four leading men of letters-André Malraux, Roger Martin du Gard, François Mauriac, Jean-Paul Sartre-buried their political differences to dispatch a "solemn petition" to France's President René Coty asking the government to lift the ban on The Question and "condemn unequivocally the use of torture, which brings shame to the cause that it supposedly serves." Still illegal, sales of The Question have since soared over the 100,000 mark...
Questioned about the letter. Patterson denied, then last week admitted that he had met Shelton "a number of times during the campaign." Later Patterson said publicly that he "would appreciate" the Klan vote, refused even to condemn Klan-style synagogue bombings. Thus the state's chief law-enforcement officer stood up with the violence-preaching organization that recently castrated a convenient Negro as part of an initiation ritual...
...single Deputy had the temerity to question this absurdity or to mention De Gaulle. Then, in a blunt speech reproaching De Gaulle for giving "new life and encouragement" to the insurrection, ex-Premier Pierre Mendes-France leveled his finger at Pflimlin and cried: "We call upon you to condemn openly those insurgent leaders in Algiers." Pflimlin weakly replied: "I do not intend to disassociate the army from the Republic...
...government policy. Economists such as the University of Chicago's Albert E. Rees would also like to see the Government itself put an end to price-boosting devices, e.g., farm price supports, tariffs and import quotas that shelter inefficient domestic producers. Said he: "If the Government is to condemn private enterprise for using rigid prices, it should itself cease being the greatest single source for price rigidity in the economy...