Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heroes. In February and March they fought against Lend-Lease, shouting that the President was carrying the country into war. In May, they rose in protest against the President's request for authority to take over 500,000 tons of Axis shipping tied up in U.S. ports. In hot midsummer, their volleys and thunders reached a climax. By a hair, by the margin of one vote, they just failed to wreck the country's fumbling efforts to raise an army. Extension of the draft finally passed the House...
...hopeful independent union, the United Weldors,† Cutters and Helpers of America, called on the 200,000 welders in the U.S. to strike in protest. Promptly U.S. troops with fixed bayonets and armored cars rolled into the Bay area. OPM's Sidney Hillman, who declared that "no welder need belong to more than one union to work anywhere in any shipyard," sputtered from Washington: "Shocking act of disloyalty." A.F. of L. officials raised their hands in holy horror. Public opinion fell on the welders' heads like a ton of bricks. The strike call was a dud. Only...
...nearby town of Lewisburg, citizens held a mass meeting to protest this quartering of the enemy in their midst, were pacified when a State Department agent explained the situation. U.S. diplomats and newsmen are hibernating in corresponding comfort at Bad Nauheim in central Germany, pending exchange. In this war without honor, unlike World War I, the only way of insuring good treatment of U.S. diplomats caught in enemy territory is by strictly quid pro quo treatment. Said William Perry, Mayor of White Sulphur Springs: "We . . . are happy to have this privilege of doing our part during the war crisis...
...Portuguese island, lying between the Dutch East Indies and Australia (only 410 miles from Darwin), has long been eyed by the Japanese. This autumn they acquired the right from the Portuguese to fly a commercial airline there. Dutch and Australian troops marched into Portuguese Timor last week over the protest of local Portuguese authorities. But even this little triumph was fraught with political hazards which might eventually offset the military advantage...
...other hand were signs that Vichy might be reflecting that the Allies were growing too strong to warrant a total bet on Adolf Hitler. Vichy dared to protest when the Nazis announced that, in reprisal for attacks on German soldiers, they would fine the Jews of Occupied France a billion francs ($20,000,000), would execute 100 "Jews, Communists and anarchists...