Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...city councilmen wanted to fire him at once, but Duxbury was not a dangerous Communist, he calmly explained-merely a Communist in his own little way. He didn't belong to the party ("They won't take me in") and didn't want to overthrow the Government ("It will collapse from its own rottenness"); he had merely registered to vote as a Communist...
...supplements the reportorial Voice of America. R.F.E. beams speeches of exiled Eastern European leaders across the Iron Curtain, satirizes Communism, and broadcasts music and folklore new banned by the Rods. It is a mouthpiece of the democratic left, the exiles who legitimately governed most of Eastern Europe between the overthrow of the quisling governments and the Communist coups...
...outcry grew any louder, State hastily worked out a makeshift compromise. All those whom the Times described as "undeniable totalitarians" -whatever that meant-would be barred from the U.S. But a distinction would be made between citizens of a "nominal" totalitarian government, and individuals whose aim it is to overthrow the U.S. government. That still left all borderline cases up in the air. But it was the best that State could do-at least until Congress returns in November for another look...
...first on my personal black list is Robert Montgomery. He is a Republican, and next to Socialists, Baptists and jugglers, I hate Republicans. I have positive inside information that these dangerous subversives are trying to overthrow our Government. Giving up Mr. Montgomery is a considerable sacrifice, because he is a fine actor...
...weakest passage in the speech was the expression of a hope-which Dean Acheson has often expressed before-that the Soviet leaders may yet turn into good little boys. Said he: "It is but 33 years since the overthrow of the Czarist regime in Russia. This is a short time in history. Like many other social and political movements before it, the Soviet Revolution may change. In so doing, it may rid itself of the policies which now prevent the Soviet Union from living as a good neighbor with the rest of the world...