Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russia's puppet press went too far. After one look at the article in which a Soviet newsman compared President Harry Truman to Adolf Hitler, the U.S. State Department took a hand. In Moscow; Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith presented a stiff protest to the Russian foreign office: "I cannot recall that Dr. Goebbels, of unsavory memory . . . ever stooped to greater ridicule and vituperation. ... I would never have believed that a Soviet writer.would permit himself, or be permitted, to draw an analogy between the President of the U.S. and our recent common enemy...
...another reply, Foreign Minister Molotov charged the U.S. press with daily "lying and slanderous articles regarding the U.S.S.R. and its statesmen." The Russian Government, he said disingenuously, "cannot bear the responsibility for this or that article, and so much the more, cannot accept the protest you have made." Translated from the Russian, that could mean only one thing: Russia's rulers meant this one for the record...
...Worry. It was a hot day in August 1934. Lewis W. Douglas, now Harry Truman's Ambassador to London, had just resigned from the budget post in protest over the New Deal's heavy spending; Douglas had vainly championed a balanced budget. Morgenthau got a hasty summons from Franklin Roosevelt. The President was taking a bath when the Secretary of the Treasury bustled in. "Henry," said F.D.R. blandly, "I give you until midnight to get me a new Director of the Budget...
Last week St. Louis' Archbishop Joseph Elmer Ritter ripped down this racial bar. He announced that Negro children could attend any diocesan school within their parishes. More than 700 white Catholic parents banded together to protest the seating of Negroes next to their children. They knocked at the Archbishop's door; he would not see them. They threatened court action; they would hire a lawyer and ask for an injunction against the Archbishop...
...Trieste's woes were not entirely over, despite the strike's end, as the United States sent a sharp note to Yugoslavia demanding an immediate end to "irresponsible" ultimatums from Marshal Tito's troops in the Trieste area. The ultimatums mentioned in the protest were issued by Yugoslavs wishing to take over certain positions along the provisional boundary against American wishes. The Yugoslavs generally threatened to use force if necessary, although in most cases the arguments were settled...