Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time as a part time consultant to the United States Public Health Service, the treadmill of a government security proceeding began to turn. Later that same year, a loyalty board cleared Peters of all suspicion of disloyalty. In 1951, the same process began again; he swore under oath that he had never been a Communist and again the government declared him loyal...
Word of Honor. Because Uruguay's government is constitutionally secular, the oath of office that Batlle Berres swore a few minutes later in Congress' circular marble hall was taken on a copy of the constitution rather than a Bible, and on his personal honor rather than in God's name. Eight other men, members of Uruguay's Swiss-style council of state, did likewise. Five are from Batlle Berres' Colorado Party; three chosen members will take the presidency in succeeding one-year terms after their chief has served for the first year. The other councilors...
After taking the oath, just after noon, Batista strode to a second-floor balcony, delivered a five-minute speech to the 65,000 people in the park below. "My opponents say the people are with them," he cried, "but I say the people are here with me . . . In contrast to those who want war, we want peace. Against those who want blood, we want love...
...Undone Oath. Refusing to be provoked by Communist taunts, the police acted cautiously. Commissioner Kurt Kessi called the legation on the telephone, asked to be admitted with an interpreter. Kessi found three tall young men in the legation. For two hours he spoke to the leader, trying to get him to surrender. "I emphasized that we would use the maximum force to capture them," he said. "I made no impression...
Next morning Kessi saw the Rumanians again. The leader told Kessi that the Communists had killed his father in Rumania and that he had taken an oath "to fight to the end." Kessi suggested that a Catholic priest. Father Beat Lorenz Seckinger, could absolve the Rumanian leader of his oath. That afternoon he returned with Father Seckinger. After the leader spent ten minutes with the priest, the Rumanians, still masked, left the legation under police guard. They had held the legation for 42 hours...