Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...editor of the Oakland (pop. 1,317), Iowa, Acorn (circ. 1,840) register a protest on behalf of hundreds of long-suffering weekly newspaper editors...
Last week the State Department closed negotiations, asked the Albanian Government for permission to send two destroyers to Durazzo, Albania's No. 1 seaport, to pick up the mission. Petulantly Hoxha refused, instead protested to the U.N. (which has denied Albania membership) that the U.S. request was an "abridgement of Albanian sovereignty." The U.S. Government disdained to answer the protest, solved the problem simply by sending the destroyers to the edge of the three-mile limit. The mission and its baggage were ferried out by small boat...
Well aware that other sections of the U.S. public would protest shutting off relief supplies to needy peoples (whether their governments were friendly to the U.S. or not), the State Department proposed an alternative plan: purchase of U.S. food by individual food-short nations. Perhaps significantly, U.S. Acting Secretary of State Dean Acheson mentioned only three countries-Italy, Austria and Greece-as examples of possible beneficiaries under this plan; all three are outside the Russian orbit...
This week at The Hague Dr. Johannes A. Ringers, Minister of Public Works and Reconstruction, quit the Cabinet in protest over the agreement, and some leaders of the Catholic party's right wing also objected. Premier Louis J. M. Beel (Catholic party) stood pat, said: "The kingdom will neither be broken nor murdered. It will be remodeled and named according to the requirements of our time...
...London, a model of the proposed Franklin D. Roosevelt statue had a faintly Britannic air (see cut), but a protest that came from a member of the U.S. Embassy staff concerned something else. Roosevelt photographs usually showed him seated, wrote Theodore Geiger, and "Americans are so accustomed to seeing him in that position that a statue of him standing may seem incongruous. . . ." The embassy chargé d'affaires, who had approved the design, hurriedly announced that Geiger was just giving his own, unofficial opinion...