Word: defenselessness
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...cannot all such academic proponents of essential sedition be sent out of the country? . . . What reliance, in case of national need, can be placed in these spiritless and spineless young men who scoff at military training under the influence of instructors whose teaching tends to leave the nation defenseless and at the mercy of aggressive foreign foes, or of the worse offices of internal Communists and other followers of the philosophy of the leaders of the Russian state...
...Schwartzbard was what you so prominently titled him, then all those who risk their lives for a lofty principle in a war, they also would be murderers. The incidents of this affair were also a war by the butcher Petlura and his blood-thirsty gangs against an innocent and defenseless people. Any person who would get rid of such an inhuman, barbarous individual is a hero...
...certainly to be hoped the American nation will rise up to condemn such unwarranted attack upon a defenseless man and force the book's retirement from circulation...
...call heroes soldiers invading a defenseless country and bandits the natives who raise in arms against the invaders, then the words "hero" and "bandit" should be taken off the dictionary. I think the German never called the Belgian to be "bandits" because they were fighting for their country; nor were you bandits either because you fought the Knglish for your freedom...
...WHEREAS, except for the valor, bravery and foresight of that great and eminent leader and statesman, the Hon. J. Thomas Heflin, senior Senator from Alabama, this country would be defenseless against such an attack...