Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...first clause of the so-called loyalty oath apparently provides that those members of the NROTC who knowingly affiliate with groups teaching or advocating the overthrow of the United States government shall no longer be eligible for service in the NROTC. I believe that the armed services, as guardians of the nation's security, have every right to demand their members to show absolute loyalty to the government they are entrusted to protect. It would be a waste for the taxpayers' money for the NROTC to train young communists or fascists...
...then, González, worn and haggard, was showing signs of panic. He charged the strikers with seeking "the overthrow of the government," threatened to form a military cabinet. Meanwhile, Maass had been pressuring González' own Radical Party. Finally, the Radicals agreed to oppose the wage-freeze bill and leave the government coalition. In return, CEPCH ordered the strikers back to their jobs...
Park, who covered Far Eastern affairs in his talk, gave the French sponsored government in Indo-China only an even chance of surviving against the Communists. A Communist overthrow in Indo-China might easily be followed by the setting up of similar regimes in Burma, Malaya, and Thailand. He viewed the Far East as the touchiest area facing our foreign policy and recommended long term economic aid such as experimental farms and demonstration factories...
...apologia for its own miserable failure in China: nothing the U.S. could have done, he said once more, could have changed things one iota. "What has happened in my judgment is that the almost inexhaustible patience of the Chinese people in their misery ended. They did not bother to overthrow this [Nationalist] government. There was really nothing to overthrow. They simply ignored it throughout the country . . . The Communists did not create ... a great force which moved out from under Chiang Kaishek. But they were shrewd and cunning to mount it, to ride this thing into victory and power...
There was no need for this sort of measure in in 1948. There was none in 1949. There is still none. There are sufficient laws now to curb really subversive teachers: the Teacher's Oath of 1935, the Smith Act, all the laws against advocating the overthrow of the government by force and violence. And there is certainly no special emergency. One of the supporters of the bill, testifying at the hearing, admitted that he had no evidence of communist infiltration into schools...