Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anxious Calls. The word from the State Department was not at all what Smith had expected: Dulles found the Knowland amendment unacceptable. In view of that Smith suggested a delay in the committee vote. California's Knowland, who operates with the finesse of a Patton tank, roared his protest: the Senate is coequal with the executive branch and he was tired of giving in to the State Department...
...they would not salute the Vietnamese. And the French, bent on a settlement in Indo-China, were quick to snub the Vietnamese delegates in conference; they unquestioningly accepted such Communist terms as "People's Democratic Republic of Viet Nam" instead of the customary "Viet Minh"; they did not protest when the Communists spoke only of the "French Union command" instead of the "Franco-Vietnamese command." The French and the Communists had so rigged Trunggia's ground rules that the Vietnamese were entitled to speak only through the senior French delegate-who did not choose to recognize them...
These are sacred places ... for me more sacred than temples, gurdwaras [Sikh shrines] and mosques. I feel more religious-minded when I see these great works." While Indians cheered, tempers rose in neighboring West Pakistan. Premier Mohammed Ali called an emergency Cabinet session, and lodged a strong protest with New Delhi. For years the two nations have quarreled about water almost as much as they have quarreled over Kashmir. World Bank officials in Washington are trying to get them together on a plan for joint Indian-Pakistani development of the waters of the Sutlej and four other rivers which join...
...State Department got off an angry protest to Prague, demanding the immediate release of Captain Davis and his men. Czechoslovakia replied that the seven Americans were spies. Nonetheless, the State Department remained cautiously optimistic. Mrs. Davis, the wife of the captain, was not so easily consoled...
When word spread through Soviet Germany that Heinrich Grüber might go, consternation welled up among the Protestants. and protest rolled in. "There must be a way to relieve Pastor Grüber of his pastoral duties without necessarily jeopardizing his position as plenipotentiary ..." Said the weekly Potsdam Kirche: "Too many people are waiting for his services ..." Last week the Evangelical Church's Bishop Otto Dibelius announced that Grüber, though he would no longer be pastor of the Marienkirche, would continue his job of go-between. Said Heinrich Grüber as he went back...