Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of the churchmen put their protests into action. In Capetown, Roman Catholic Father Thomas L. Gill went ahead" and married a white man and a "slightly colored" woman, was convicted and fined $56. An Anglican priest in Natal resigned his appointment as a marriage officer and surrendered his license to the government as a protest against the act. Last week ministers in South Africa were considering a call from Anglican Father Trevor Huddleston of Johannesburg to follow suit...
...Colombia inspecting hospitals, schools and other works of the 39 Presbyterian missionaries now there. The Presbyterians, he said, had not been the only ones mistreated. Wrote he: "The Lutheran Church, which, with the Presbyterians, has the largest United States mission representation in Colombia, is ready to add its expressed protest to the religious persecution being experienced by Protestants under the present regime. The Scandinavian Alliance missionaries have been forced to leave-fleeing to Venezuela. Smaller groups have experienced at least as severe persecution...
...week's end, as Patterson was resting in the Bahamas, the State Department called in Dr. Carrera and roundly rejected his government's protest. But whatever the diplomatic niceties of the situation, it seemed clear that Patterson and Guatemala were thoroughly fed up with each other; if he ever went back it would probably be to pack his trunks...
Following a protest against the rules now being considered by the Council, the petition states the six substitute provisions as follows...
...organizations voted unanimously to protest the mastodon-sized 33-page booklet of projected regulations, and produced a substitute set of six simple rules. These would require that organizations must be financially responsible, must not jeopardize the University's tax exempt status, must have Harvard students determining policy and be free from outside control, must uphold local, state, and federal laws, must not imply that their actions or opinions are sponsored by the University, and must fulfill all the above criteria for official recognition...