Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Numbering among its forces Robert Hutchins, University of Chicago, Rufus Harris, Tulane, F. X. N. McGuire, Villanova, James A. Colston, Georgia State, and two presidents of small Massachusetts colleges, the anti-conscription group assailed the Congressional proposals as making "the threat of force the basis of our foreign policy...
...statement which they signed demanded that the film be withdrawn as "a violation of the United Nations declaration against war propaganda and as a grave threat to our won security...
...year-old Paul Daniels, the State Department's Director for American Republic Affairs. From long experience, Daniels had concluded that the policy of ignoring de facto governments was silly: it was a relic of the days of kingdoms and duchies; in today's world, nonrecognition, or the threat of it, frightened no one. Moreover, recognition or no, trade and communication between nations always seemed to continue; it was better to have an ambassador on hand to supervise them...
String-pulling in Washington and Oregon ended the threat to the Toon's use of the mails as swiftly as it had begun, however, when "Big Bob" Handyman, postman, succumbed to an attack from a winged fleet of Ibismen...
...parliamentary secretary to the Ministry of Food, shrilled that the film was "likely to pervert the minds of the British people." The Bishop of London, as chairman of the Public Morality Council, sent a protest. Watch committees from the provinces hustled to London to pass judgment. Last week, after threat of banning, the picture was pruned a bit. Out went the kicking scene, also one where a gangster smashed a decanter across the face of an unoffending barkeep. However, the producers promised that, for export, No Orchids would remain unexpurgated...