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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Presence and votes of the representative body will theoretically prevent the permanent body, which does practically all the work of the Key, from becoming "clubby." According to members of the Crimson Key at the Council meeting, this clique atmosphere would eventually destroy the practical value of the Key organization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Key Charter Gets Council Okay | 4/22/1949 | See Source »

...need or wish for possible government interference in its economy and has threatened to withdraw from any strong state that may be established. In Bavaria the Christian Democrats are joined in a weak coalition with far-right Christian Socialists; any concession at Bonn by the C.D.'s would destroy the uneasy union, and lose for them this second most populous of the eleven West German States...

Author: By William M. Simmons, | Title: Brass Tacks | 4/20/1949 | See Source »

Suppose the slanted coverage of the press does not push or national attitude off the springboard to war; suppose this organized drive to discount liberals does not destroy civil liberties. What then is there to worry about? Why not let the Boston Heralds and the Luces blow their horns until their breath is all gone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Big Red Scare: II | 4/20/1949 | See Source »

AFTER VISITING REFUGEE AND CHILDREN'S CAMPS, TALKING WITH PRISONERS OF WAR, AM ABSOLUTELY CONVINCED GUERRILLA ARMIES COMPOSED OF DIEHARD COMMUNISTS AND CRIMINAL AND LAWLESS ELEMENTS INTENT ON DESTROYING EVERYTHING GREEK WHILE THEY PILLAGE, RAPE AND PLUNDER. PATRIOTS OF RESISTANCE MOVEMENT LEFT GUERRILLAS WHEN GREECE WAS LIBERATED, AND COMMUNISTS TOOK OVER, FOR THEY KNOW COMMUNIST AIM IS TO DESTROY GREECE, MAKE HER A COMMUNIST SATELLITE BY ESTABLISHING RUSSIAN DOMINATION OF MEDITERRANEAN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 11, 1949 | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...last May with Harold E. Stassen, in which Dewey opposed outlawing the Communist Party. But, said Ben Feinberg: "This is different. Shall we permit known Communists ... to take our youths when they are most impressionable and let them teach subversive doctrines? Freedom of speech never contemplated the power to destroy the system that guarantees that freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Nobody Here But Us Mice? | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

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