Word: manifestoes
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...Learned, through a manifesto signed by 83 Southerners (79 Democrats, 4 Republicans), that the Administration's civil-rights program is in for desperate rear-guard treatment when the House debates on it this week. The Southern Congressmen, calling the bill "sinister and iniquitous," declared that it would intensify racial antagonisms, and indicated that they would try to amend it to death. Even if the bill passes the House, it is certain to be filibustered in the Senate...
...understand everything up to the time of Marx's Communist Manifesto" confessed a prominent French Communist to his comrades, "but anything after that -well, I just don't know any more...
...Southern Manifesto...
...March 26 article, your statement that I presented a call for nullification at the caucus of Southern Senators at which the manifesto was first considered is entirely incorrect. The word nullification was not in the draft I presented and there was no such implication. Another error was in the statement that I elbowed my way back on the scene after writing of the final draft. The truth is I served on the final drafting committee at the request of Senator George, who acted as chairman of the caucus. You also stated that not a Southerner rose in reply...
With that manifesto the Nagas launched a Mau Mau-like war of terrorism against villages and Indian government posts, wielding their razor-sharp daos (axlike knives) or shooting off Japanese and British arms pilfered from World War II caches. They were led by one A. Z. Phizo (who, lacking a Christian name, took the first and last letters of the alphabet). Phizo, 56, a mission-educated Naga, guided his warriors on ruthless raids in which they slaughtered hundreds of villagers and Indians, then retreated into the jungles and pathless mountain terrain...