Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frustration and anger swelled through the Piazza dell' Esedra. Well-dressed Federation representatives explained that they sought only to defend the workers' interests, but the indignant workers shouted back: "We can take care of ourselves. If I want to break my own arm, it's my own right. Keep your protection...
...This I do carry in my head, Senator. ... All Government and all private institutions must be designed to promote and defend the integrity and dignity of the individual." The Communist philosophy, he pointed out, is the direct antithesis of that; in Russia men are means to an end. In a democracy "the individual comes first...
...Resign! Resign!" shouted-Tory members when Shinwell rose to defend himself...
...great shout in favor of Furtwangler was that he "didn't throw out the Jews until he had to" and that he was responsible for getting many Jewish musicians out of danger (e.g. Carl Flesch). One noted English pianist, however, who was asked to join a group to defend the conductor, told me that the only reply she could make was: "Don't talk to me about Flesch; how many babies did he save? Of the little children who were taken from their mothers to be raised in camps and loaded into trucks until they suffocated from overcrowding, how many...
...forbids Ministers to write for publication, got into the anniversary number with what was euphemistically called an "interview." He gave it with a chip on his left shoulder: "We have traveled quite a distance from those frustrated days in Edinburgh. . . . But we have not yet a Socialist Britain. . . . In defending the Government where . . . justified, Tribune is not called upon equally to defend that portion of private enterprise that our political strategy leaves for the moment untouched...