Word: communists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government has made a grave mistake in prosecuting and imprisoning the eleven bosses of the Communist Party of this great nation. The Smith Act of 1940 was never meant to be so misused as to restrict and virtually outlaw the belief and teachings of any free-thinking American political group. This action by bigoted Americans may well establish a malignant precedent of outlawing (or of purging) all individuals or groups of individuals who show disfavor with or oppose the political leaders of this land...
...operation on the C.I.O.'s Communist-line wing was performed with a meat ax by a stern and rejuvenated Philip Murray and his staff of strategists. Leaders of the biggest Red-run union of them all, the United Electrical Workers Union, did not even show their faces on the convention floor. They huddled in Cleveland's Allerton Hotel, sniffing the cold, strange wind and making distant and preposterous sounds of defiance. A day before they and their little brothers, the Farm Equipment Workers, were expelled, they packed their bags and fled...
Russia doesn't look on China as an important ally, Edwin O. Reischauer, associate professor of Far Eastern Languages, declared last night. He spoke before a meeting sponsored by the Harvard World Federalists in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room, on the topic, "Communist China...
...should recognize the Red regime, if and when it gets control of all of China, Reischauer stated. The second speaker, Thomas Mahoney, Legal Advisor to the Chinese Consulate in Boston, said that the United States should not hurry to recognize Communist China, since the act would cut off all chance of aiding the Chinese Nationalists...
Guthman hustled out of the city room with a long-term assignment: to find the truth about Melvin Rader, professor of philosophy at the University of Washington. Before the state legislature's Committee on Un-American Activities in July 1948, Melvin Rader had been labeled a Communist. His accuser, ex-Communist George Hewitt, charged that Rader had attended a secret party school near Kingston, N.Y. for six weeks in the summer of 1938. Rader's reply was a detailed denial: he was not a Communist, and he had spent the summer of 1938 in Seattle and at Canyon...