Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist and most Socialists knew that it was the logical sequence to the Communists' successful subjugation of Stanislaw Mikolajczyk's majority Peasant Party. Though the Socialists had applauded as the Communist-dominated state police decimated the Peasant Party and sent Mikolajczyk scurrying into exile, they screamed in protest at Gomulka's blunt warning that the Socialists came next...
...signing, they went on a paro doloroso (strike of sorrow). Next day, primed by pep talks from anti-Yankee professors, they were out for trouble. Armed with sticks, stones and one red flag, they headed for Panama City's Plaza Santa Ana to organize a "popular protest," and hoped to get the National Assembly to hold up the agreement. Halfway down the Avenida Central, police met them with tear gas and sabers. For a moment the students gave as good as they got. Then they fell back. Score: 30 hurt (including 17 policemen...
...Paris, a couple of dozen writers and painters-including Jean Cocteau, Louis Aragon, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse -dutifully responded to a cable from Charles Chaplin asking them to protest the deportation* to Germany of Hollywood Composer Hanns Eisler. To the Paris Embassy the celebrities sent their message: please let Eisler use his visa to France, where "we expect [him] to write the music for the film Alice in Wonderland." Said Cocteau: "If Eisler's music is good, who cares about his politics? . . . Politics are dirty. Art is pure...
Humphrey Bogart & wife Lauren Bacall took special pains to explain about themselves and Communism, at a Chicago press conference. Bogart read a prepared statement about their trip to Washington (six weeks ago) to protest the Reds-in-Hollywood investigation: "I am not a Communist . . . I am not sympathetic . . . I see now that my trip was illadvised, foolish and impetuous . . . I acted impetuously and foolishly on the spur of the moment, like I am sure many other American citizens do at many times." Then he put the script down and explained: "We went in green. They beat our brains...
...time has come for students to protest the lack-adaisical planning and sloppy preparations of the meals that are served in the House dining halls. A little thought and a little care could do much to better the fare and would cost no one a single extra penny. Let me cite a few examples...