Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year the Olympics have been seriously undermined even before the games start. Team after team has withdrawn to protest Russia's action in Hungary and England's action in Egypt, and then to add to the commotion, Communist China withdrew to protest the participation of Nationalist China...
...high cockalorum of existentialism, spoke up for the disenchanted. Sartre, who once wrote one of the theater's most effective anti-Communist plays. Red Gloves, and then wished he had not, defected once again. ''Intervention [in Hungary] was a crime," he cried in a four-page protest in the anti-Communist L'Express. "The Red Army fired on an entire people. And the crime for me is not only the tank attack on Budapest. It is also that it was rendered possible by twelve-years of terror and stupidity. I condemn entirely and without reserve...
...Though the Archbishop of Canterbury had condemned the government, the Archbishop of York found that the "policy of the government, no less than the policy of the opposition, can be supported by Christian convictions." Some 240 of Cambridge's most distinguished scholars wrote a letter to the Times protesting Eden's intervention. More than 350 dons at Oxford filed a similar protest, but a rival group of 30, led by 90-year-old Greek Classicist Gilbert Murray, supported Eden...
Religion in Britain often appears subdued and on the decline. Yet the Eden government's intervention in Egypt roused Britain's churches to life and protest as no British government's action since the Boer War. Most of the Protestant clergy -both Established church and nonconformist-took their cue from the Archbishop of Canterbury ("Christian opinion ... is terribly uneasy and unhappy"). Said the Anglican Bishop of Chichester: "Britain has stood alone in the world before because she upheld moral principles at great cost to herself. But she stands almost alone today because she has acted in direct...
...Christian people, stop the war," proclaimed a banner at a Free Church Federal Council protest rally in Nottingham. A delegation of British church leaders called at 10 Downing Street, voiced the "deep concern of Christian opinion," and urged a cease-fire (Anthony Eden was too busy to see them). Dr. Donald Soper, fire-eating British Methodist leader who urged refusal to fight, led a protest march through London's West End. Anglican Father Trevor Huddleston, famed for his fight against apartheid in South Africa, called for even stronger condemnation by the churches: "Unless this is done, once again...