Word: questioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harlan County's coal barons and deputized thugs, whose propensities for murder, assault, and general repression of miners' tendency to join John L. Lewis' U.M.W. was disclosed last year by the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee (TIME, May 3, 1937). At issue also was the question whether a Federal statute enacted just after the Civil War to protect Negroes from Ku Kluxers could be invoked to reenforce the National Labor Relations Act with criminal penalties. The act of 1870 makes conspiracy to violate any constitutionally guaranteed right an offense punishable by fines up to $5,000, imprisonment...
...inviting capitalist democracy's confidence and respect, U. S. Communists also invite the question: "What of the revolution?" Answer is that Communists have no more love than before for capitalist democracy. They have faced the facts that: 1) U. S. people do not now want a socialized order, 2) the Party needs democracy as an ally against fascism. As Comrade Browder put it in 1936: "A consistent struggle for democracy and progress leads inevitably, and in the not distant future to the socialist revolution...
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's new "realistic" formula for assuring peace to troubled Europe, namely, negotiation of agreements between nations to remove causes of friction, last week received setbacks from two sides. Friction between Czechoslovakia and Germany over the bitter Sudeten German question rubbed that corner of Europe raw, and the French and Italian conversations, designed to produce a Franco-Italian pact such as Britain signed with Italy three weeks ago, broke down over the war in Spain...
...Italians in the French African protectorate of Tunisia be given special privileges and that France pledge not to conscript native troops for her armies. Further conversations between Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano and the French Charge d'Affaires in Rome, Jules Blondel, were temporarily out of the question...
...guards opened fire. Both Germans were killed. Anxious local Czech officials explained that the guards had merely done their duty, that both Germans were notorious Nazi agitators and had been implicated in previous serious political offenses, but soon the wires in every chancellery in Europe were humming. The Big Question hanging menacingly over Europe was - Would Cheb be the second Sarajevo...