Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sharpest repudiations of the New Order of Japan have come from India--see the reply of Tagore to Noguchi. For the past five years while we and England have been freely trading with Japan, India led by the All-India Congress has been boycotting Japanese goods in protest against the invasion of China. India has been less asleep than...
Prime Minister Eamon de Valera's protest, fortnight ago, against an English court decision that Irishmen in Britain can be forced into the British Army, had no more effect than his protest against the presence of U.S. troops on Irish soil...
Even before Pétain's decision the U.S. State Department had pretty well discounted the durability of Vichy's neutrality. Answering Pétain's protest over U.S. recognition of the Free French De Gaullist regime in French Equatorial Africa and the Cameroons, the U.S. had allowed itself the rare diplomatic luxury of speaking frankly. Said the U.S. note: "(A) handful of Frenchmen ... in contempt for the high tradition of liberty and individual freedom which has made France great, have sordidly and abjectly, under the guise of 'collaboration,' attempted to prostitute their country...
...pastors resignation was much more than a moral protest. It meant that they gave up comfortable incomes for their convictions-for in Norway, as in Germany, the State pays clerical salaries, as well as the cost of church administration, church building and church repairs. Now Quisling will pay only the salaries of the few clergymen loyal to him and support only those churches which give allegiance to his government. But the hardy Norse will undoubtedly find ways to back their spiritual leaders materially as well as morally. The Confessional Church in Germany has existed entirely on such secret gifts since...
...Easter Sunday nearly 11,000 Norwegian clergymen resigned in protest against the Quisling regime-leaving only about 40 retaining their posts...