Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From their headquarters in Nasser's Cairo, the Algerian rebels erupted in angry protest at "betrayal" by Tunisia, complained that such a commercial deal with France was a "hostile gesture to the Algerian people at war." Snapped a senior Tunisian politician last week: "If the F.L.N. thinks Tunisia will change its mind, it is mistaken. What right has the F.L.N. to set itself up as the heir to French colonialism in the Sahara...
...tainted men. Though pro-Nasserites shrilly cry that "American aid is more dangerous than British imperialism," Khalil goes right on negotiating with the U.S. When the Marines landed in Lebanon, he bluntly declared himself "overjoyed." Last week he defeated a parliamentary effort to reject U.S. technical aid, as a protest against the Lebanese landings. Several days later Khalil triumphantly announced a new $39 million loan from the World Bank for his country's railways and shipping...
This shrewdly timed proposal was designed for that ready audience that thinks a summit talk can settle everything, and refuses to believe that Russia would ever resort to brinkmanship. The U.S. could resign itself to a long summer of Russian indignation, parades, protest meetings. All of this uproar might easily obscure the main facts of the week: that in the troubled crossroads of the Middle East, the misty but passionate creed of Arab unity had destroyed every major Western position; and that the West had yet to find a way to live with the creed or to bring it down...
...nominations sent anti-Peronistas riot through the Palace of Justice. They rained jeers and firecrackers down from the galleries, exploded a bomb in an upper-story closet, shattering the walls and cracking windows. Respected Chief Justice Alfredo Orgaz of the Supreme Court joined 27 other judges in resigning in protest at Frondizi's "impoverished and dismembered juridical administration...
Citing this play in an article in last Sunday's New York Times, the British author Stephen Spender said: "The way in which a talent can be damped down by success to the faintest squeak of social protest is shown (here) ... where the writer's plea for sympathy with the man who gets off with girls in cinemas is a pill covered under about sixteen layers of sugar." True, the play was originally intended as a dramatization of the actual case of a well-known British actor with a taste for young men. But the result, watered down though...