Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sure that Jews were made the new scapegoats of Czechoslovakia's economic failings and wretched living conditions; it is noted too that the Communist Rude Pravo ominously referred to Israel as "a base of aggression against the peace camp and the enslaved Arab nations." Israel prepared to protest, both in Prague through its ambassador there, and in the U.N. Even Israel's Al Hamishmar, newspaper of the slavishly pro-Cominform Mapam Party, suddenly disillusioned, called the accusations against Oren "fantastic and absurd," an attempt to smear "a persecuted people...
Probably few who cheered the public rallies or signed the protest telegrams had the faintest idea what the Rosenberg case was about. Frame-up, hatemongering, antiSemitism, cried the Communists...
...graveyard days of 1947. Those in favor of Germany are at a legal disadvantage: only candidates known to approve the Francophile government will be allowed on the ballot. But German propagandists, dramatizing themselves as the "repressed German underground," are infiltrating Saarbrücken, urging the German-speaking Saarlanders to protest the French "police state" by casting blank ballots. They got a welcome assist from the German Bundestag in Bonn, which cheered through a resolution declaring the Saar election illegal...
Oscar R. Ewing, head of the Federal Security Agency, left New York's Idlewild Airport on an eight-week, government-financed, round-the-world trip for a series of social welfare conferences in India, despite the protest of Republican Representative H. R. Gross of Iowa. Gross, who thought the junket was flying pretty high for a lame-duck agency boss likely to be replaced a few days after his return, wrote President Truman insisting that the trip be canceled. The answer came at the White House press conference last week: the Ewing trip was none of Gross...
...Boston NAACP, which had banned the film in the past, did not protest the showing on orders from president Lionel Lindsay. Afterwards, however, the group's executive board reversed Lindsay's dictum and protested the exhibition to President Conant. It was the film's first public exhibition in the Boston area since 1916, when it caused bloody riots at midtown theatres...