Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tory Lennox Boyd leaped up to protest in the House of Commons. But, at a sign from Winston Churchill, he sat down again. Churchill demanded, and received, the promise of a later debate on both proposals...
Last week they got Molotov's answer. In his opinion, the protest was "not solid." (Correspondents wondered if he had picked up some jive talk in the U.S. last spring.) And since it was not solid, Mr. Molotov "did not find it necessary to give it his attention...
...ease their burning necks, ten members of the Anglo-American Correspondents Association decided to make a formal, Dutch-uncle protest to the Government. The idea came from Canadian-born Eric Downton of Reuters, president of the Association, who arrived in Moscow four months, ago, after wartime service as a lieutenant on a Canadian corvette on Atlantic convoy. Brooks Atkinson, an old censor fighter, helped polish the protest. Every member of the Association, including Anna Louise Strong, approved the unanimous protest, which was addressed and sent to Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov. Excerpts...
...protest against any Roman Catholic attempt to control, by threat of boycott, newspapers or radio...
...protest against Roman Catholic support of Franco Spain...