Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Notified that U.S. diplomats in Hungary were restricted to an 18-mile zone around Budapest, the State Department dispatched a curt note: "Effective immediately, members of the Hungarian diplomatic mission in the United States . . . are prohibited from staying "or traveling beyond a specified area except by express permission . . . The designated area is fixed at a distance of 18 miles from the White House, Washington...
...that I have committed suicide, don't believe it." His old friend Aldo Cucchi joined him in heresy. In Rome, the two declined to see the party fathers. Instead, they resigned as Communists and as Deputies. Said Cucchi: "In the Italian Communist Party, there is no freedom to express one's own opinion . . ." Said Magnani: "I can no longer remain representative of a party which does not share my views." Last week they issued a joint call to all comrades...
Died. William James Conners Jr., 55, publisher of the Buffalo Courier-Express (circ. 149,465), which he took over from his father in 1919; of a heart attack; in Buffalo...
These are sad times. Since the turn of the century industrialization has captured the United States and turned many of the simple pleasures and traditions out to pasture. Like the spinning wheel, the pony express, and the riverboat, like the Post Road and the small country trail, many of the institutions which we associate with early America have been renovated or replaced--no longer considered adequate for the hustle and bustle of twentieth century America...
...remember your visit to the University of Michigan in 1947. We remember how you were sorely upset when some students protested against your speaking here. Do you remember standing up for freedom of speech and expression when it was your view that was unpopular? Do you remember how we believed that even you, a Communist, should be allowed to express your views? Do you remember saying that you were fighting for such freedoms...