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...take from us the freedom we cherish. But we have a democratic procedure for dealing with subversion through our courts and through legislative enactments. It cannot be our policy to allow government by the mob, government by the whim and caprice of segments of our population. Professors who abet such extra-legal procedures act with no more responsibility than lynch mobs or demagogues. If the Lubells have acted injudiciously they must be handled by the properly constituted bodies of our government...
...most cases and on most campuses girl students seemed to welcome and even abet them. Georgetown University, a Catholic men's college in Washington, B.C., was invaded, in fact, by an automobile caravan of squealing females. Scores of students poured out after them before faculty members stepped in and sent both forces into sheepish retreat...
Under the Mississippi act, a subversive organization is one "which engages in or advocates, abets, advises, or teaches, or a purpose of which is to engage in or advocate, abet, advise, or teach activitie intended to overthrow, destroy, or alter, or to assist in the overthrow, destruction, or alteration of the constitutional form of government of the United States, or of the State of Mississippi ... and to establish in place thereof any form of government the direction and control of which is to be vested in ... the domination or control of any foreign government, organization, or individual; but does...
Translated out of Communist jargon, this meant that the strike leaders were admittedly striving to block the recovery of France, to torpedo the Marshall Plan, and thus to abet the purposes of Moscow...
...smaller municipal organizations. Although extensive, its fields of activity are primarily social. It appoints chaplains to state institutions, coordinates social and clerical work, forms and publishes opinions on current legislation and provides religious educators for public schools. Part of the Council's energy is channelled off to aid and abet the Church World Service Center, which is itself an interdenominational organization devoted to the dispensing of overseas relief. It also runs a weekly radio program of discussion on international relations called "One World" which until his departure was under the aegis of Harvard's Dr. Carl Friedrich...