Word: humanitarianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hear the author tell it, his motives for writing the book were purely humanitarian. "From the moment that the Jews are no longer a minority but a majority," he explains, "the Jewish problem, which is one of a minority, ceases to be one." Barons Guy (TIME cover, Dec. 20, 1963) and Edmond de Rothschild went to court on the grounds that the book contained "a string of intolerable defamations and offenses to the dignity and consideration of a great family." In defense, Peyrefitte's lawyer argued that the Rothschilds, "like all the greats of this world, are open...
...robes. But Olivia got even. When Sage died in 1906, leaving her "the wealthiest woman in the world," Olivia dispersed his fortune in good works, endowed schools and colleges, planted rhododendrons in Central Park, and established the Russell Sage Foundation, which has to date expended over $60 million in humanitarian causes that the old pirate probably never gave a thought...
Alvim called on both loyalists and rebels to "demonstrate democratic and humanitarian understanding by finding a dignified formula for the re-establishment of a lasting peace." That was obviously a long way off, but to underscore his message, General Alvim sent a battalion of Brazilian infantrymen to secure Santo Domingo's bullet-pocked National Palace on the fringe of the rebel zone. From the first days of the civil war, the palace had been held by Imbert's loyalists, who beat off rebel attacks. Now Alvim wanted the shooting to cease. As the OAS troops marched...
...Jeeps and a three-quarter-ton truck again drove by accident into rebel territory. Four marines died, one was wounded, two captured. At rebel headquarters, Caamaño and Aristy gloatingly interrogated the marines before U.S. newsmen. Then they let them go. "You see, I am a humanitarian," said Aristy...
...Leoni issued public statements deploring the U.S. landings. But privately, many Latin American statesmen admitted the necessity for quick U.S. action. Some even went on record about it. Mexico's Foreign Ministry said that it regretted a move "which evokes such painful memories," but recognized the humanitarian reasons and hoped the marines' stay "will be as brief as possible." Added Argentina's Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Zavala Ortíz: "Sometimes those who appear as intervening actually are only reacting against a hidden intervention...