Word: manifestoes
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...Communists all over the world, "the case of Willie McGee" had become surefire propaganda, good for whipping up racial tension at home and giving U.S. justice a black eye abroad. Stirred up by the Communist leadership, Communist-liners and manifesto-signers in England, France, China and Russia demanded that Willie be freed. The U.S. Information Service in London, worried by English concern about the case, released an official statement of the facts. Not only Communists took up the cry. In New York, Albert Einstein signed a newspaper ad protesting a miscarriage of justice. Mrs. McGee, a captive of the Communists...
...good riddance" of an "arrogant militarist," they discovered that Moscow wanted them to concentrate more on smearing Harry Truman for keeping the Korean war going. Secretary General Eugene Dennis, now out on $30,000 appeal bail as one of the eleven convicted Communist conspirators, issued a cliché-packed manifesto to set the comrades right...
...same period is a shameful mixture of zig-zag reasoning and equivocation. When ex-President Hoover announced his "Western Gibraltar" policy last January, Republican Policy Chairman Taft was quick to join him under the bed. Taft opposed the appointment of General Eisenhower; he also backed the Wherry "manifesto" against sending troops to Europe because the presence of American soldiers might incite the Russians. This started the first Great Debate which sputtered on for two months; then as the Wherry resolution neared a vote, it was withdrawn by Wherry himself. When Hoover's speeches stopped making the headlines, Taft's support...
...Sultan a jeep with chrome fenders which is still the pride of his 58-car garage. Two months later, the Sultan met Franklin D. Roosevelt, was deeply impressed. By January 1944, an independence party, underground since the 1930s, emerged as theIstiqlal (Arabic for independence), broke out with a manifesto which quoted the Atlantic Charter. Independence seemed a splendid idea, even to old Hadj El Glaoui, Pasha of Marrakech, leader of some 4,000,000 Berber tribesmen.* Sometimes called the French Sultan, El Glaoui had acquired wealth and power as a result of past loyalty to the French...
Prior to the general's manifesto, the State Department was making plans for a statement of the peace aims of all fourteen nations now fighting with the U.N. in Korea. The plan was to send this statement to the Chinese in order to re-open truce negotiations. The U.N. is also trying to establish contact with Peiping through the Swedish legation there. MacArthur's proposal made no mention of these authorized negotiations and was obviously not coordinated with them; the general's speech came as a complete surprise to U.N. officials of all nations...