Word: protestantness
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Saar Basin. A protest by Germany charging that France compelled German children to attend French schools in the Saar area in an effort to bias them politically was discussed by the Council. Eventually, a plebescite is to decide whether the Saar Basin (rich coal area) is to belong permanently to France or Germany; hence the German fears...
...could be ascertained, the pamphlets were seized before they were distributed. From the Directorate went forth a protest to France against Ibanez's activities in that land. Preparations were taken to prevent repetition...
...demonstration was decidedly a protest against the campaign which Author Ibanez has been waging, against the King on foreign soil. But it was something more. It was tacitly a popular manifestation, evinced by a small and, persumably, representative section of the people, in favor of the Monarchy as an institution; for, in Spain, the real master is the Monarchy, quite irrespective of the King's personality. In Egypt, King Fuad is the monarch; and Great Britain is the master. In Russia, the proletariat is sovereign; but the Moscow oligarchy is the keeper of the sovereignty. In Italy, Vitorio Emanuele...
These mourners of Isaac Friedman were of the Hasidim, a cult of Judaism that had its origin among the Polish Jews in the 18th Century, as a movement of popular protest against the strict ritualism and insistence upon the immutability of the law as propounded by the Talmudists, or orthodox rabbis, whom the Hasidim call the Mitnaggedim, or "opposition." The belief in the miraculous powers of their rabbis, and in the blood-kinship with David of a line of rabbis now represented by Isaac Friedman's 17-year-old son, is essentially mystical and emotional in character. Orthodox Jews...
...title role, Pedro de Cordoba, Clare Eames, Richard Bird and Ernest Cossart in her support; went down on one of the few notable productions of the season. Shaw's ideas in the play were familiar. But Shaw knew his people must not be simply puppets of protest against a world's uncertainty. He made them flesh and blood; under the spell of a virtually flawless performance, they came poignantly to life. Ideas chip and disappear; emotion is a constant quantity...