Word: communiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the conviction of the 11 Communist leaders last week, two problems linger on to bother those who wish to maintain justice while preventing subversion. One is a legislative problem, the other a question of specific procedures used by courts and loyalty boards...
After a stop at the Circuit Court of Appeals, the Communist conspiracy case will move to the U. S. Supreme Court. Here the Justices will have to deal with a highly important issue: the constitutionality of the Smith Act, under which the 11 indictments were brought...
...past week many newspapers have made a dramatic comparison between the safeguards employed in the Communist trial and the methods of the recent Czechoslovakian purge. The comparison is legitimate and brings credit to our courts. But it is less satisfactory to compare the procedures in Judge Medina's court with the methods of some for our Loyalty Boards, which can not imprison a man, but which can deprive him of his job and his reputation...
...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...
...Senate yesterday voted $1,314,010,000 to help non-Communist nations rearm. 'It was the second time in this session of Congress that the body had voted this amount, the bulk of which will go to North Atlantic alliance countries...