Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government, out to slay a Fascist dragon, still had enough time to pop at field mice. In a Minneapolis courtroom the Department of Justice triumphantly snagged a nestful of mice: 18 Trotskyites convicted of advocating the overthrow of the Government. Only hope for the mice was in an appeal. They vowed they would take their squeaking case all the way to the Supreme Court...
Depriving the Federal Government of the power to suppress the activities of sedition groups, groups, specifically advocating the overthrow of the government by force, must obviously make the government more susceptible to revolution. Surely the HLU and its associates will not contest the right of the government to put down an active revolution. Were there no Smith Act the government would be forced to differentiate between actions which could he construed to mean "advocating" the overthrow of the government and those which would actually constitute participating in a seditious uprising. Not only would such a situation create an extremely knotty...
Surely it is the ultimate in hypocrisy for any group, such as the defendants in the Minneapolis trial, to claim immunity to punishment on the grounds of "Free Speech" when presumably such right would be withdrawn were they in power. For if it is necessary for them to overthrow the government by force (as they apparently would like to do--else why do they advocate it?), it follows then that they and their constituents are in a minority. From this fact it is, I thin, reasonable to deduce that in order to remain in power our hypocritically successful revolutionists would...
...which he gives not as theory but as fact: Months before, 64 agents began filtering into Germany letters signed (it seemed) by members of that pro-Hitler, super-Cliveden Set, The Link. Their urgent gist: Linksmen awaited only a Sign, a Great Gesture on Germany's part, to overthrow a wobbling Churchill, betray England, end England's war. The surest conceivable gesture, they suggested, would be to open war on Russia...
...defendants are now being tried under the Smith Act, a statue which slipped quietly through Congress a few months ago making it illegal to discuss the overthrow of the U. S. Government. They were at first accused of actual conspiracy, on the grounds that the Union had, two years ago, bought two 22 rifles and conducted target practice, very ostentatiously and publicly, in order to frighten away a Silver Shirt group which was threatening to raid union headquarters. The Silver Shirts disappeared very quickly, and the rifle practice was abandoned. Last official act of the volunteer marksmen...