Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Sweden had no doubt that the bombers were Red Army planes, although in Stockholm the Government was ready to believe that the Russians had simply made a mistake. In Moscow Swedish Minister Vilhelm Assarsson hurried to protest to Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov, fully expecting to get an apology similar to that offered when the Russians early this year mistakenly bombed the Swedish island of Kallaks. Instead, the People's Commissar flatly denied that Red aviators were responsible...
...profits. It doesn't take a clairvoyant, or a Marxist, to see that last September's Neutrality Act fitted in beautifully with the desires of American big business. And a nation taught to recoil squeamishly at the question "Guns or Butter?" will fall in comfortably with the YCL's protest against boosting national defense at the expense of relief, public works, and farm aid. Many liberals in the past few months have been quietly advancing all these views...
...reason for the Ninety-Nines' protest : because of the ban against pregnant women flying, many a woman with a private license is unable to fly the 15 hours a year necessary for renewal of her certificate, has to keep starting all over again as a student...
When Czecho-Slovakia was dismembered, Poland not only did not raise a finger in protest but insisted on her share of the booty. When Poland's turn next came, she found herself isolated, friendless and helpless in Eastern Europe. The dictators strategy has been to take care of one victim at a time. A real system of collective security might well have put an end to such conquests years...
Fear of German reprisals drove a group of Göteborg shipowners to issue a public protest against Editor Segerstedt. In an effort to bridle his tongue, they invited the Government to indict him. Newsmen in Sweden were taking bets last week on how long Editor Segerstedt and Sweden's press would last before censorship got them under. Segerstedt wrote each day's column as if it might be his farewell to Swedish journalism. Said he, one day last week: "We haven't much more prestige to lose in Britain, France and the U. S. In these...