Word: protestingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Youth Conference in Prague [TIME, Aug. 11] was good reporting, but lacked an important touch for me. I was at Prague when the conference opened. I saw the parade as you described it. ... That the U.S. Embassy in Czechoslovakia objected was no surprise. I hope they sent their official protest direct to the White House, for the U.S.A. was the only nation there which did not sponsor and plan an exhibit...
...Embassy protested, with the usual result. The Government repudiated the protest as "malicious generalization." Last Sunday, the Government won the election, hands down...
...Bare Protest. The fanatical Sons of Freedom broke away in the early 1900s from Canada's Doukhobor colony, claiming that they alone were faithful to the old Doukhobor teachings.* They became best known for their peculiar means of public protest: stripping to the buff in fair weather and foul. Religious pacifists, they refused during the war to serve even in conscientious objectors' camps. They recently concluded that a third world war was imminent, that to avoid it they must somehow placate divine anger. They also brooded enviously about the prosperity of orthodox Doukhobors. Soon, armed with gasoline tins...
...Sons of Freedom burned their own homes, too. When Anista Arishnikoff's home was set afire, she knelt in front of it, full of joy. "Look," she cried, "I protest the coming of World War III." Freedomite Helen Domoskoff said proudly: "I burned my house and my lovely radio." Local and provincial police, long troubled by Doukhobor outbreaks but unwilling to be called "persecutors," held back...
Most of the summer-becalmed press joined in the protest. As the unseemly spot persisted, Saskatchewan's Government announced that the internees' fate was and would be in federal hands. That put the next move up to the Dominion...