Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began quietly enough when the Falange organized a "spontaneous" demonstration of Madrid students to protest Queen Elizabeth's planned visit to Gibraltar (TIME, Feb.1). Classes were dismissed, flags passed out, and thousands of students set off happily for the British embassy shouting "Death to Queen Elizabeth," and "Britain, get out of here." On their way, they enthusiastically smashed the windows of a British bank...
India's Lieut. General K. S. Thimayya pleaded with the Communists to accept the P.W.s "under protest." The Communists refused. "Ah, well," said Thimayya...
British Scorn. Meanwhile, Spain sent its ambassador to call on Anthony Eden to protest Queen Elizabeth's scheduled visit on May 10 to Britain's fortress on Gibraltar, "Spanish territory unjustly retained by Britain" for 250 years now. Britain, reacting with lofty scorn, saw its feelings aptly expressed in a London Daily Herald headline: THE AMAZING FRANCO DARES TO WARN us. Undeterred by these headlines. 8,000 Madrid students this week stormed the British embassy and were finally driven away after a 2½-hour hassle with the police...
...begged his public to remember that Godfrey "rates the patience of the audience because any doctor will tell you that no man is emotionally stable until a year after an operation such as the one Arthur went through." Colonel Ora Young, regional administrator of the CAA, who received the protest from Glass, promised reporters that he would do his duty, that he had written Godfrey and was patiently awaiting an answer, but that he did not think anyone -"especially a man of Mr. Godfrey's standing"-would deliberately fly a plane close to a control tower. Godfrey, however...
...only aim is to profit by the current hysteria through victimizing people who hol unpopular beliefs. To give him more names is merely to provide him with more fuel and to aid him in destroying the lives of men and families. The fact that those named would protest their innocence of criminal activity would not hinder McCarthy; his genius lies in distortion and innuendo. Further-more, to the unreasoning public Communism and treason are one; admission of the former is proof of the latter. Every new name is a headline for McCarthy; every new admission a faggot for hysteria. Franklin...