Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despairing Stanislaw Mikolajczyk announced at week's end that he would ask the Supreme Court to nullify the elections because of widespread violations of law, and would possibly forward a protest to the Big Three, who had guaranteed free elections. But Mikolajczyk himself could only look forward to being kicked out of the Government and waiting to see how far the Government would go to smash his party and end his opposition for good. Said he, mulling over a TIME report (Dec. 9) that had said he had "the highest popularity and the lowest life-expectancy" in Poland: "Lowest...
...consular staff, that he would grant Brazilian passports to anyone wanting to leave Russia for political reasons. Anti-Communists flocked to his office, and were promptly arrested by the Cheka. Pirro himself was a Cheka agent. Outraged by such police methods, Balabanov went straight to Lenin to protest. She reports in her memoirs (My Life as a Rebel). "Lenin looked at me with an expression which was more sad than sardonic. 'Comrade Angelica,' he said, 'what use can life make...
...Francisco, in Lake Success, we protest, as one voice, the veto. Yet each country, in its turn, reserves it for its own benefit, invoking intangible sovereignty. Are we going to build international democracy upon national dictatorship...
...redhanded in the act of disseminating a confidential report that Russia was sponsoring an underground terrorist organization throughout Italy. Called the "Troika" (Russian for a vehicle drawn by three horses abreast), the organization was a ripe blend of Italian, Yugoslav and Russian comrades. In response to Russia's protest, Premier de Gasperi expressed "deepest regret." The existence of the Troika has been confirmed by the Italian police and by Allied intelligence services...
...neatly at the previous session, catching responsible leadership unawares. It was a strike by little politicians against the big bureaucrats, more spiteful than high-minded, for it would disqualify some of the nation's most competent men. When the Chair announced the reconsideration, a stormy wave of protest rose from the little politicians and beat upon the heads of the big ones. In the final vote, however, the leadership amended the troublesome amendment to read: 'Incumbent officials may not be elected to the Assembly from their own constituencies...