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...rest of Africa and throughout the world, the reaction was even angrier. Liberia's President William Tubman called the Sharpeville massacre "the vilest, most reckless and unconscionable action in history." In London, a crowd shouting "Murder!" had to be dispersed from South Africa House under an ordinance that prohibits any public gathering within a mile of Parliament when the House of Commons is in session. In Vatican City, L'Osservatore Romano demanded to know why South Africa's police "did not employ such modern means as water hoses and tear gas, which...
...erratic leader, Herbert V. Evatt-onetime (1948) president of the U.N. General Assembly-also got himself mixed up in seeming sympathy with the Reds, during the defection of MVD Agent Vladimir Petrov from the Soviet embassy in Canberra (TIME, Sept. 27, 1954)-When Evatt insisted that only the "vilest liars'" could link him with Communists, a Menzies aide retorted: "Those who fly with the crows must expect to be shot...
...following Italy's medievally strict leprosy laws, threw him into Rome's Lazzaretto Lazaro Spallanzani.* Though he was repeatedly certified "noncontagious and innocuous," it took Orano months to get away to France with his wife Giulia, a former nurse. But after six years of campaigning against the "vilest humiliations" and "unreasoning, medieval terror of leprosy," Orano was finally locked up by the French. So back he went to Rome...
...Vilest Practice. But that night Johnson moved in gallantly to help Kennedy recoup. John McClellan's amendment, he pointed out to Southerners, was a Southerner's booby trap. If the Secretary of Labor were to get injunctive powers, could he not force integration of Southern unions? And would not the Attorney General seek similar powers to enforce civil rights? A.F.L.-C.I.O. lobbyists sought out Republican liberals, argued that the McClellan bill of rights would loosen labor discipline and pave the way for wildcat strikes. Kennedy and staff settled down with Harvard Law Professor Archibald Cox to write...
Meanwhile, fighting on other fronts, McClellan introduced an amendment to prohibit blackmail picketing, i.e., picketing to force a company to recognize a union. Cried he: "This is one of the vilest practices going on in the country...