Word: manifestoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hopeful news leaked out of tight-sealed Paraguay last week. A courageous manifesto signed by 3,000 citizens requested President Higinio Morínigo to abandon his dictatorship, call popular elections so that Paraguay might align herself with the rest of the continent in the democratic way of life. First in the list of signers was revered Dr. Juan Boggino, poet, physiologist and Dean of the University of Asuncion. Morínigo answered the appeal with a wave of arrests and deportations of democratic elements. But he did not dare touch Dr. Boggino, for fear of nationwide resentment...
...long manifesto (TIME, Aug. 30, 1943), which may well be one of the basic documents of World War II, summoned all Germans to unite in a democratic coalition...
...Chelm. As the mission winged to Cairo and on to Teheran, where a Russian plane and a cordial invitation from the Kremlin awaited them, the new Polish Committee of Liberation, from its provisional seat at Chelm, busily shaped Poland's future. The Committee issued a history-making manifesto, which outlined not only the Polish, but presumably the Russian blueprint for Eastern Europe above the Carpathians...
...true friends abroad. Chungking's strict censorship seemed to be relaxing. Allied correspondents, on a trip to the long forbidden Communist zone, were allowed to report warmly on the Communist village setup, land reforms, guerrilla tactics against the Japs. In Nationalist China, hitherto quiescent democratic groups issued a manifesto: "The formation of a democratic system should not be postponed any longer. We warn our fellow countrymen that if democracy is not realized in wartime, what we gain after the war will not be democracy but the disruption and annihilation of the nation, with sufferings a hundred times more painful...
Revolutionary? The White Paper is a basic undertaking. It attacks problems fundamental to democracies. It is not a one-man brain wave: the British Treasury and Minister of Labor Ernest Bevin helped frame it. Last week, the Daily Herald (labor) called it a "revolutionary manifesto." But if it were, it could only be such because of its new assumptions of the responsibilities of democracies. Financially, it is conservative...