Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days after the U.S. Navy sent a boarding party from the radar picket ship U.S.S. Roy O. Hale to the Soviet trawler Novorossisk in the North Atlantic to investigate the cause of breaks in five transatlantic submarine cables (TIME, March 9), the Russians lodged a predictable protest. Charges that the Novorossisk had cut the cables were a "fabrication," said the Soviets. Moreover, the U.S. action was based on "provocative aims." From the U.S. last week went a cool reply that 1) dismissed the protest as unfounded, 2) pointedly documented the "strong presumption" that the Russian trawler had indeed...
...some sort of independence, it would face "catastrophe" and lose the colony altogether. When he flew into Léopoldville last week, he got the kind of ugly welcome that France's Premier Guy Mollet once got in Algiers. Angry white settlers shut up their shops in protest, flew flags of mourning, chalked up slogans saying GO HOME, TRAITOR, and SNUL (Flemish for simpleton). Had the irate settlers had any suspicion what energetic little Maurice Van Hemelrijck was about to do. their slogans might have been a good deal nastier than that...
...displayed a great deal of feeling for the Dalai Lama, whom he hopes will continue to be safe. But he does not seem to know how he should feel towards the Tibetans themselves. He praised India's consul general in Tibet for refusing to accompany Tibetan women in a protest march, and declared, "We have no intention of interfering in the internal affairs of China, with whom we have friendly relations." It's not, Nehru feels, lack of concern but "noninterference...
Rumors attributed the failure to sabotage by Russian fishing vessels. However, Navy investigators uncovered nothing but fishing equipment and a Soviet protest when they boarded the trawlers...
...over his head, complaining at the way things were going, and blaming all their troubles on the nouveaux riches and the "postwar millionaires." Ultranationalists threatened to "wipe out" the entire Shoda family. The police, aware of how often in Japan assassination has been a means of political or emotional protest, keep the Shoda house under constant guard...