Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Germany v. Europe. "The German concept of liberty was always directed outward; it meant the right to be German, only German and nothing else and nothing beyond that. It was a concept of protest, of self-centered defense against everything that tended to limit and restrict national egotism. . . . The German idea of liberty is racial and anti-European; it is always very near the barbaric if it does not actually erupt into open and declared barbarism, as in our days...
Promising an investigation designed to improve the quality of the cooking in the Lowell House dining hall, Roy L. Westcott, manager of dining halls, has taken immediate action on the official protest presented through the Lowell House Food Committee last week...
...protest, issued on the strength of a petition signed by 120 men, paved the way for discussions by the committee with Westcott and Aldrich Durant, business manager of the University, on the questions of price of meals, quality of food purchased, and expertness of preparation...
Presumably it was such writing that had made him "unacceptable" to Chiang's Government. Editor Hibbs passed the protest along to Harry Truman, Jimmy Byrnes, General Eisenhower, the press. At Chungking, officials told the A.P. that there was no "final decision" to bar Snow. But the record there already showed other unacceptables: the New York Post's Darrell Berrigan, Newsweek's Harold Isaacs were barred last. summer. The New York Times counted nine unwanted, including Vincent Sheean, the Times's Brooks Atkinson, the Chicago Daily News's Leland Stowe...
...rowdies, the Storm Troopers, the policemen among them could easily see a connection between themselves and the charges against them. But Alfred Rosenberg could protest that he was just a quiet philosopher, and Julius Streicher a plain newspaper editor, and Joachim von Ribbentrop a diplomat who served his country...