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...more than two hours the officers bickered. Then Barrios announced that a junta had been formed and sent two tanks to the National Palace to demand Arevalo's surrender. The President's defiant answer: "My term is six years. I will serve not one minute less and not one minute more...
...churches last Sunday Czech priests read a defiant resolution, proclaiming their loyalty to Archbishop Beran and Pius XII. "We are certain," the resolution declared, "that all conscientious and faithful Catholics agree with us and that they would so testify if they were given the opportunity of free speech...
...Western commandants would get together with the Russians to try to work out a solid agreement on trade and traffic between the West zones and Berlin. Meanwhile, the steady day & night roar of the planes-which had brought terror to Berlin during the war and defiant hope during the peace-would continue as before. The U.S. announced that Operation Vittles would be carried on indefinitely; it was too important a weapon to be dismantled...
From church pulpits throughout Czechoslovakia, Roman Catholic priests last Sunday read a defiant, 4,000-word pastoral letter, delivered to them by couriers sent out from a secret meeting of the country's bishops. They read it despite nocturnal visits from the police, despite the warning of Communist Premier Zapotocky that further "antistate" activity would be met with arrests and trials. They were fortified with the words of their archbishop, Josef Beran, who remained in his Prague palace surrounded by armed plainclothesmen. "Do not allow yourselves to be intimidated by threats," he had written. "In these difficult times...
...Question. McGohey paused at this show of defiance and turned to the court for help. Said Judge Medina: "Answer the question." Loudmouthed Defense Lawyer Harry Sacher stood up and shouted "I advise him of his constitutional right to refuse." Judge Medina stonily intoned "I repeat my direction." Gates was defiant: "I would have to bow my head in shame and I could never raise my head in decent society if I ever became a stool pigeon. Even under the court's direction...