Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which their children would go on living-to lose. ¶The Nisei had grown away from the Japanese beliefs that they had been taught as children, felt superior to their parents and a little ashamed of the Issei's bowing manners and broken English. They were full of protest at the idea of evacuation, afraid they were being stripped of their rights as citizens. Their faith in U.S. fairness was shaken. But they were still unconvinced by their parents' talk of the greatness of Japan...
...break his word. The New York Times's Drew Middleton cabled that it was "the most colossal 'snafu' in the history of the war. I am browned off, fed up, burned up and put out." Fifty-four correspondents at SHAEF signed an angry soo-word protest, calling Kennedy's action "the most disgraceful, deliberate and unethical double cross in the history of journalism...
...poker-hot letters of protest, from President Lorenzo Maroni of Rome's High Court of Justice and Public Prosecutor Mario Berlinguer, finally forced official notice of the uproar. After a meeting of the Cabinet, Umberto, acting in his capacity as Commander in Chief of the Royal Navy, had the pleasure of proclaiming that his polo-playing cousin had got the sack...
Appalled ministers issued a protest: "It is unthinkable that we at home should be false to those ideals for which [our sons] have been asked to pay so high a price...
...denied that the four had disobeyed an officer, or that the trial had been fair. But on the basis of their testimony that they and other Negro WACs at Lovell had been victims of racial discrimination, the Negro press, Negro and radical leaders started a furious protest, loudly demanded an investigation...