Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matter of record that when an avowed communist harangued the meeting on the violent overthrow of capitalism a large section of the audience responded with enthusiastic cheers. However, political colorings were too various to be grouped under a general Party...
When, on Sept. 8, 1914, King George V called on the people of India to fight "to overthrow an unparalleled assault upon the continuity of civilization and tKe peace of mankind," India's response was spontaneous and overwhelming. When, on Sept. 11, 1939, King George VI asked India to fight "for a principle which is vital to the future of mankind," the response was reluctant and sullen...
...these last five months there have been tremendous changes. When last I spoke we had just experienced the terrific shock of the overthrow of France. Hitler seemed irresistible. First Poland had been overwhelmed, then Norway, then Holland, then Belgium. Finally came the destruction in less than a month's fighting of what had been rated as the finest army for its size in Europe, and the disarmament and division of France...
...This report confirms that Bridges is a Communist and that the Communist Party advocates overthrow of the United States government," Hoover said...
...commerce, finance, monarchy, almost any tradition, marriage. Shortly before his death, Shelley wrote Leigh Hunt: "The system of society as it exists at present must be overthrown from the foundations. . . ." Before he was tossed out of Oxford (for publishing The Necessity of Atheism), Shelley had dedicated himself to this overthrow...