Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inside, one dissenting voice was raised in protest. Armed with a telegram of encouragement from Assistant Secretary of State George V. Allen, Editor Norman Cousins, of the Saturday Review of Literature, spoke over boos and catcalls. To his fellow delegates he said: "I ask you to believe that the American people . . . are not speaking out against the idea of peace . . . They are speaking out against a small political group in this country which has failed to live up to the rules of the game in a democracy . . . Tell the folks at home that Americans are antiCommunist, not anti-humanitarian...
Into the Breach. The Russians did not have to listen to such words of protest often. Whenever unpleasantness threatened, an American leaped into the breach. When Dwight Macdonald, editor of the anti-Communist magazine Politics, asked Fadeev at a press conference what had happened to several Soviet writers who have disappeared, Daily Worker Columnist Howard Fast jumped up and cried: "I know what has happened to all the people who could not be here with us ... I wait myself to be arrested at any time." Fast seemed overly apprehensive. Even Leipzig-born Communist Gerhart Eisler, facing deportation, was at liberty...
...loved your country! I wanted to write, to explain it to the world!' The words froze. He wouldn't permit them, nor would he understand them." The commissar rose to pronounce judgment: Journalist Strong was to be expelled for spying. "I tried once more to protest that I wasn't a spy ... He said, 'Dismissed,' very curtly, and I went...
...claimed that Communists are enlisting professors to the Red cause by having them back with their names and money leftist meetings and literature, and by having them protest, any restrictions of Communists or Communist groups...
...conceivable facet of the school's decadence is ruthlessly assaulted. Guy Hudson does most of the attacking, although the high point of the story (but the low point for the aging Principal, Mr. Pilkey) is the resignation of Judge Hopkins V as Chairman of the Board of Trustees, in protest to Mr. Pilkey's attempts to "pack" the Board with Alumni. "No sir," says the Judge, "I shall simply watch you and your school with the amused detachment of one who is in the know, with the Olympian shrug of a former lover watching his ex-mistress go to seed...