Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...instance: the President had first learned of the capture and "punishment" on Oct. 19, a full six months ago. The fact that some had been executed was solidly confirmed by the Swiss Government to the State Department on March 12. The State Department had made formal protest on April 12. Yet the President had not told the people he was aghast at this "barbarous" recourse to "frightfulness" until April 21. Why the delay? Why was the announcement thus timed, and why announced from the middle of a trip about the country...
...Manhattan last week 2,500 trade unionists jammed into Mecca Temple to protest the execution by the Soviet Government of Henryk Ehrlich and Victor Alter, Polish labor leaders. This was the first U.S. gathering on the cause célèbre since Soviet Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff had announced that Ehrlich and Alter had been liquidated for subversive activities (TIME, March 15). Cried A.F. of L. President William Green: "Shameless, wanton execution. . . ." New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia called it "Russia's Sacco-Vanzetti case." Many another U.S. labor leader voiced outraged protest...
Even if the students had tried to answer correctly, they seem up against a marking set-up that would make even the most abject apple-polisher protest with fire...
Results: In 1940, 2,000 students milled at the university gates to protest the draft. In 1941 they voted 2-to-1 for the draft and aid to Britain, heaved out the Communist-infected American Students Union. California gold might have bought the president of Oxford, but hardly a more imaginative executive than Robert Gordon Sproul...
Winston Churchill this week postponed both revision of the register and a general election until after the war. But Sir Richard's protest had a point. It proved once again that in Britain-even in a Britain enmeshed in war-there will always be someone freely calling for more democracy...