Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Left-wing Gaullists and many Socialists also voted yes, but they reject Algerian integration and ask for a negotiated settlement. Nevertheless many of those (like Pierre Mendes-France) who have pressed for such a settlement have insisted on voting no, in order to protest against the coup d' Alger of May 13 and against the spirit of the Constitution, which they consider insufficiently democratic. They remain faithful to the old Republican tradition which associates democracy only with a sovereign Parliament...
...protest raised by some students against Harvard's withdrawal serves as a reminder that Council opinion has not always been so adverse to NSA. In fact, members voted twelve to four in 1957 to remain in the organization, and two years ago they approved NSA membership thirteen...
...segregationist passions aboil. The presence of federal marshals in Little Rock, he cried, is more serious than the presence last year of federal troops. The marshals "will be met in many situations with a cold fury that did not exist before." When a group of Arkansas' Presbyterian ministers protested the closing of Little Rock's four high schools (TIME, Sept. 22), Southern Baptist Faubus accused them of being leftists, "brainwashed by left-wingers and Communists." Not even a stern protest from Methodist clergymen could make him change his mind. He heated up the air waves of an Arkansas...
Pressure for continued College participation in the National Student Association mounted last night, as another student organization joined in protest against the Student Council's decision to withdraw from N.S.A...
Controversy continued yesterday on the Student Council decision to withdraw from the National Student Association, as the Council's Executive Committee refused a student organization's request that its protest be placed on the agenda for next Monday's meeting...