Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Flag Trotskyites, 6.000 strong, rebelled first, in protest against even negotiating for independence with Prime Minister Attlee. Their leader: Thakin Soe, 48, onetime clerk in the Burma Oil Co. and jailmate of Prime Minister...
Poet's Protest...
...Editor of Poetry and an officer of the Modern Poetry Association, I want to protest against the article which appeared in TIME, July 12. Your note, under PEOPLE, purporting to be a news item about the resignation of Mrs. Borden Stevenson from the board of Poetry, contained this statement: ". . . Poetry magazine, the flat-broke association's outlet for its members' rhymes...
Arabs, were angry at Mendès' promise of autonomy within the French Union. They denounced Mendès-France as a "Judas Iscariot"; planeload after planeload of them went tearing off to Paris to protest his "sellout" to their powerful representatives in the National Assembly. Paris told Premier Ben Amar that Tunisian independence was at best a "stated principle," which could not possibly be implemented until "arrangements" have been made to secure the colons' special interests-investments, privileges, jobs...
...were abandoned, others have continued, despite changes in party control ... In any event, a number of allegations heard in the course of these hearings appear to be directed, not at foundations, but at the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the Government and at the electorate. We must strongly protest any attempt to involve our two non-political organizations in questions which are so basically political . . ." ¶ That the foundations have not adequately supported "pro-American" projects and organizations. "If we think," says Rusk, "not of institutions, but of the kinds of work performed or supported, again we believe that...