Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Juliana's renewed obstinacy prompted two of her three wise men to protest that she had gone back on her word, and this in turn so angered the Queen that she threatened to broadcast her version of the story to her subjects. When pro tern Premier Willem Drees heard of this, he told Juliana bluntly that he had given orders to broadcasting authorities not to permit the Queen to go on the air. Meanwhile, far from fulfilling his ordained role in the masquerade of renewed connubiality, Prince Bernhard, the Queen's husband, made less and less effort...
From the moment De Nicola quit as Chief Justice in protest at the government's failure to carry out his court's decisions, Italy's Premier Antonio Segni knew full well that he was caught in a squeeze play: unless he purchased De Nicola's return to the court by promising government compliance with its rulings, Premier Segni's Cabinet would stand condemned in the public mind for defiance of constitutional processes. As gracefully as possible, the Premier resigned himself to paying the price-a new set of laws to replace the Fascist statutes thrown...
Twenty-six years ago, in Tokyo's Central Railroad Station, a nationalist fanatic named Yoshiaki Sagoya shot Japan's liberal Premier, "Lion" Hamaguchi. Last week bull-necked Yoshiaki Sagoya was back doing business at his old stand. In protest at Prime Minister Ichiro Hato-yama's avowed intention of flying to Moscow to negotiate a World War II peace treaty with the U.S.S.R. (TIME, Sept. 24), Sagoya and the khaki-clad toughs of his "National Protection Society" staged a mock funeral service for the ailing, 73-year-old Premier. On top of an altar, flanked by artificial...
...proclaimed, among other things: "We will not be satisfied to take one jot or tittle less than our full manhood rights. We claim for ourselves every single right that belongs to a freeborn American, political, civil and social; and until we get these rights we will never cease to protest and to assail the ears of America...
Several such blatant examples of inequity were corrected only after embarassing public protest. The Air Force removed Lt. Milo Radulovitch as a reserve officer because his sister was a Communist, and the Navy Department suspended a cartographer, Abraham Chasanow, on the basis of derogatory rumors that were proved baseless. Chasanow's case illustrated the injustice to government employees caused by the operations of the Eisenhower program. Under severe economic and financial hardship during his 13-month suspension, Chasanow was denied an opportunity to confront the witnesses who had testified against...