Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Calcutta a column of students paraded in protest against the treason trials of Indian National Army men. Organized under Japanese supervision by the late
Unrest spread to Bombay, where students clashed with police. In Delhi, other students marched in protest before historic Mogul Red Fort, the ancient citadel where I.N.A. officers were standing trial for high treason against...
Though it had all been blueprinted in general, Tory backbenchers squirmed, looked to the front benches for a word of protest, a challenge to debate. Winston Churchill's chair was vacant. So was Anthony Eden's. Oliver Lyttelton had to respond. He did, weakly, with a parliamentary point that was out of order. Laborites laughed and catcalled...
TIME does an excellent job in reporting history but a more questionable one in grading it. In your issue of Oct. 29, you give King Ibn Saud a "flunk" in ancient history, ethnology, and arithmetic. While granting that the King's mathematics seems dubious, I must protest your flunking him in ancient history and ethnology for his statement that the Canaanites were Arabs, as I think most scholars would admit that they were...
...National Council of Palestine Jews promptly proclaimed a general strike; rabbis ordered rams' horns to be blown for a day of prayer and fasting. In Tel Aviv, angry protest meetings flared into open riots. Bands of youths with smoking torches set fire to Government offices, damaged stores, stoned buildings. In the center of the all-Jewish city Zionists fought a pitched battle with police, who retreated to avoid bloodshed. Five Jews were killed and 56 injured; 23 police and soldiers were wounded, mostly with homemade hand grenades...