Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Turkey last week recalled her Ambassador to Vichy, Behic Erkin, registering a bitter protest against Gestapo violations of her diplomatic immunity and indicating a possible break with Vichy...
...kind, easygoing people of The Netherlands flamed with anger at the latest Nazi measure against Holland's Jews; an order for sterilization of Jews who marry what Adolf Hitler calls Aryans. So did their churches. Last week Roman Catholic and Protestant church leaders drew up a stern joint protest, sent it to Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Reich Commissioner for The Netherlands...
...letter from the Southern Presbyterians was sharper. "Our Church will not be deterred by this campaign," declared the protest from the Church's General Assembly at Montreal, N.C., as delegates formulated plans for missionary work in Latin American lands. "If the hierarchy is right in insisting that Protestant missions should cease in Latin America because Protestants are in the minority in those countries then, on the same principle, Roman Catholic propaganda should be excluded from the United States...
...newspapers, Lippmann knew that a combination of British-American sea power was (and is) essential. "Nevertheless I was too weak-minded to take a stand against the exorbitant folly of the Washington Disarmament Conference." He praised that disaster as a triumph, denounced the admirals who dared to protest. "Of that episode in my life I am ashamed, all the more so because I had no excuse for not knowing better...
...forsook his unpredictable Navy Blue Baker for the consistent khaki of an Army Officer. Because I have lent a patient ear, and have even, upon request, given my Yeomanly advice, I have heard myself referred to on occasion as "Mr. Anthony," Concerning this last tribute, of which I must protest my unworthiness, I should like to comment in the following brief poem...