Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Western Allies have formally protested against the military character of the East German police force; so far, Moscow has ignored the Western notes. But last week the West was preparing a more effective protest. Washington announced that Chancellor Konrad Adenauer had asked the West to let his government establish a federal constabulary of 25,000 men. Such a force was necessary to maintain the republic's internal security, argued Adenauer, especially in the face of the continuing streams of refugees from the East. The High Commissioners favored the idea, but would probably scale down the number...
...Strip Tease. The Communist Party immediately called for a nationwide general strike and a monster rally in Tokyo to protest the trial of the eight rioters. The Japanese government forbade any Communist open-air meetings until after the elections. On the day set for the protest rally Tokyo ran blue with police. The Communists had announced that they expected 30,000 to come to the rally, but it ended up as a subdued meeting of only 5,000. The general strike, too, was a fizzle. Communists had predicted that 400,000 workers would leave their jobs; actually about...
...French Communist Party the "camouflaged fifth column of Moscow," the Communists seized copies of Le Figaro from Paris newsstands and burned them. Last month the morning paper had to barricade its doors and windows as 1,500 Communists rioted outside. They had made the most of the opportunity to protest against publication of the memoirs of Nazi Storm Trooper Otto ("Scarface") Skorzeny, who led the paratroop raid to release Mussolini...
...time he graduated from Lawrenceville, he had written enough to know he wanted to compose. His mother's reaction to this decision was, "All right, but what will you do for a living?" She did not protest, however, when he spent all his time at Harvard composing, an occupation which brought him two undergraduate awards and a performance of one of his prize-winning works by Archibald Davison, the present James Edward Ditson Professor of Music...
After more than a year of protest, the Educational Policy Committee set up McKay's committee last May. At the time, Buck said the committee would decide "what to reinstate' 'as well as consider the place of the field in the curriculum. A few weeks earlier, a Board of Overseers' report is believed to have recommended the resumption of geography in the University...