Word: defend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lawyer Wendell Willkie, who has never been accused of lacking courage, last week agreed to defend a well-known Communist, and for nothing...
...Dictator Stalin has long since sold Karl Marx and the Workers of the World down the river; who once, when Stalin arrested some Indian Communists as Trotskyists, lambasted Communist Gallacher as "a creature so completely under the thumb of Moscow that he does not dare to stand up and defend British subjects...
Possibly the HLU's stand is that the real reason that the defendants in the Minneapolis sedition trials are being prosecuted is because they are Leftish in their leanings. Such a situation is far from improbable. Yet if it is actually the right of free speech that the HLU is defending, why are they not crying out against the suppression of the Bund and various pro-fascist groups? As far as the theory of the right of free speech is concerned, the two cases are identical; there is a difference only in what the Bund and the Socialist Workers Party...
...students will be delegates from chapters of the Student League for Progressive Action, the Student Defenders of Democracy, the College Division of the Committee to Defend America, and from a number of independent local groups...
...program that has successfully brought out the drama that exists in the disinterested play of ideas. It has done so by getting articulate thinkers to talk spontaneously about a great work of literature. The principle of the thing, as expressed by a CBS adviser: "While we are planning to defend our civilization we should not fail to keep it alive...