Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Stalin a cablegram, quoting Lenin at him to prove that Stalin really shouldn't be so beastly to Czechoslovakia. He also dispatched a third message, to President Truman, asking asylum in the U.S. for himself, his wife and two daughters. "I [do] so," he wrote, "in order to protest to the whole world against the methods which are being used in Eastern European countries...
When Jan Papanek, friend of Benes and democracy, walked out of his United Nations post in 1948 in protest against the Communist rape of his homeland, the new Red bosses of Czechoslovakia picked a successor who was more appreciative of the virtues of Communist-style democracy. Within a few days, Vladimir Houdek, a lumpish, round-shouldered Communist with an acute allergy to hard work, arrived at Lake Success spouting epithets at his predecessor. Papanek, he trumpeted, was a traitor to his country and a tool of the Western warmongers...
...temper and tactics of FDJ chieftains was well-expressed by agile, aggressive Robert Bialek, who explained: "We'll take care of our church and political enemies. You sock them in the teeth until they fall. Then they write a letter of protest. You let them get up, read the letter, and then knock them down again...
...wish to protest the use of my name in a letter and a news story in the CRIMSON of May 18. The letter was published without my signature and as I want no part of the Varsity Club controversy, I request that my name be withdrawn from further consideration. John H. Ederer...
...majority sentiment within the Council was against a new Varsity Club, but the members could not agree on the strength of working of a protest...