Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...text from an undivulged source) debated on the value of releasing it, thinking that many readers might be moved to accept Khrushchev's picture of himself and other top Stalin aides as innocent men caught up in a web of terror against which there was no possible protest. What finally decided the release of the text was the fact that the speech revealed such a sordid picture of Communist intrigue that it could not but have a demoralizing effect on Communist Parties outside the Soviet Union. As it turned out, this was the wiser counsel...
...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 free-born American, political, civil and social; and until we get these rights we will never cease to protest and to assail the ears of America...
...somewhat more conservative leanings, to stay on as Under Secretary. Although Davis had been a leading candidate for the secretaryship (with 14 Western G.O.P. Senators and a solid phalanx of top Nebraska Republicans behind him), he agreed to stay on and his supporters accepted the situation without public protest...
Barrat was charged with a strange offense: "Failure to denounce crimes compromising the security of the state." The French press raised such a protest that Barrat was released provisionally. Three months ago Newsweek's Paris Correspondent Benjamin Bradlee was arrested and ordered to leave France for a similar offense-though he never got closer to the rebels than a taxi ride in Algiers. This time the U.S. embassy protested, and the French suspended the expulsion order...
...Protest of 100. Again the press protested. More than 100 editors and re- porters signed a protest denouncing the government for making a criminal offense of "the free exercise of the functions of a journalist." At week's end, with Claude Gerard still in the general women's prison of Paris, the government let it be known unofficially that she would not be sent to Algeria for trial. It appeared that Newshen Gerard would soon be free on the same provisional basis as Barrat, but the government still plainly held the threat of jail over any correspondent...