Word: communism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prosecution's charges were "unmitigated bunk," a vicious libel. The Communists merely advocated socialism as the only valid answer to the abuses of fascist capitalism, the only way to peace, freedom and security. It was not Communism which taught violence, but the tottering capitalist class which advocated it in order to save itself. Communism advocated force only after a socialistic government had been peacefully set up-as a method of preventing a counterrevolution...
...such intent could be inferred from the open and above-board teaching of a course on the principles and implications of Communism in an American college or university, where everything is open to the scrutiny of parents and trustees and anyone who may be interested . . . That is why it is so impor tant for you to weigh with scrupulous care the testimony concerning secret schools, false names, devious ways, general falsification and so on, all alleged to be in the setting of a huge and well-disciplined organization, spreading to practically every state of the union and all the principal...
...time is here and now for the defense of communism and American civil rights," he said...
...recent loyalty case involves a young woman who one year ago was fired from the Federal Security Agency for suspected "Communism." According to the New Yorker magazine, the lady had produced witnesses who said she was a vigorous anti-Communist. But she lost her job--despite the fact that no witnesses confronted her, and despite the fact that the "only evidence against her was the unsworn statements of unknown persons," whose allegations rest in a still-secret FBI report...
...fatal weakness of American foreign policy is the practice of mere anti-communism (or anti-Russianism, if you prefer). We supported Chiang's Knominatang government in China not because we like Chiang, nor because we wanted to back a winner, but because he was staunchly anti-communist. It would have taken diplomatic courage to have shifted to the Chinese Communists when we had a chance; or to have moved fast and incisively to construct a government out of the few "liberals" in the country at the time. But we couldn't possibly have gotten into a worse mess than...