Word: protests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...purpose set forth in Sacred Scripture: 'I shall strike the shepherd and the sheep of the flock shall be dispersed' ... Now that things have come to such a pass that this most worthy prelate has been . . . condemned like a criminal ... we cannot but [make a] solemn protest...
...outside world was not afraid to speak. All over Italy, Catholic Action organized protest meetings; in Milan, 5,000 Catholics fought bitterly with Communist strong-arm squads which tried to break up their meeting. In Italy's National Assembly, Interior Minister Mario Scelba announced that the government had sent a message of "fraternal solidarity" to Hungarian Catholics. Communist deputies screamed defiance...
Nine Hungarian consular and diplomatic officials in Washington, New York and Cleveland resigned in protest against the Mindszenty trial. Catholic pickets, carrying signs denouncing Communist Hungary, knelt in New York's City Hall plaza, holding their rosaries in pleading gesture. A delegation of demonstrators called on Bela Belassa, acting Hungarian consul general in New York. They were surprised when he said: "I agree with your protests. I am resigning as of this moment." Mrs. Belassa explained: "My husband has been living in torment . . . The hills of Buda and across the river the plains of Pest; surely we will miss...
...Secretariat of Labor and Social Welfare, the preserve of María Eva Duarte de Perón. The secretariat, acting on hold-the-line advice from the nation's new economic council, met the union's demands only halfway. When their Peronista officers failed to protest, the union's rank & file revolted...
...both hands. He rushed backstage, delivered an ultimatum: "Either the orchestra does something immediately about the press, or 90 men will be out of a job. Dr. Krueger and I have fought bad publicity by ourselves long enough. Now it's up to you." He ordered them to protest, en masse, then roared: "Anybody here who wants to call the papers and tell them what has happened here can go ahead...