Word: manifestoes
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...session. More than half of the Deputies - Socialists, Radicals, Popular Republicans, Independents - walked out en masse. Left facing empty benches, except for Gaullist Deputies, Couve de Murville complained, "We were condemned before we could be heard." Later, 293 of the 550 members of the National Assembly signed a manifesto rejecting De Gaulle's view of European organization as "old-fashioned" diplomacy...
...proposed that European states give up a measure of national sovereignty to achieve a closer union, and concluded: "We affirm our conviction that only a United Europe, partner on the basis of equality with the U.S., will preserve the future of our liberties and peace." The signers of the manifesto represented enough votes to bring a motion of censure against De Gaulle's government, but they hesitated to embarrass De Gaulle on the eve of what may be the ultimate Algerian showdown. They also dreaded pushing him into ordering a popular referendum on the European issue when...
...reply of Professors Hoffman and Kissinger (CRIMSON, May 17) is an unseemly performance by normal standards of taste and logic. They say that anyone who has waded through the arguments pro and con would find this protest incredible. They conclude that "there are only two possible explanations" for the manifesto. One is described as the blind, deaf liberalism of the thirties. The other is ignorance born of overwork...
...determination of the strikers served to strip away Spain's normal political apathy. Intellectuals in Madrid issued a manifesto protesting the government's news blackout of the strike; ridiculing the official explanation that the unrest was fomented by the Communists, they declared: "Nothing is said of the real social situation that caused the strikes." Admitted one of the signers: "This won't have any effect. But it gives us a little exercise in civic duties." At the University of Madrid, student riots about the mounting influence in education of Opus Dei, a powerful Roman Catholic lay order...
Unfortunately, no one seemed to be listening. The world rolled toward that inexorable collision between East and West that Karl Marx not only foresaw but tried to prevent. He died in London in 1883. And the revolution that he had hoped to ignite in Germany with his Manifesto flamed instead in the very country whose dreams of world conquest he feared the most...