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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moment, there was nothing he could do but listen. Four days before, on the express orders of Secretary George Marshall, Bob Lovett had been banished from Washington for a much-needed rest. Under the eye of his wife Adele, he was going through the motions of a holiday...
...little farming town of Fosterburg (pop. 250), Ill., had only half an hour's warning. Just after 6 o'clock in the morning, sunlight turned a sickly yellow and a warm wind blew. Then darkness fell] rain poured down in torrents, and a roar "like ten express trains" filled the sky. A Mrs. May Dingerson opened her,back door to investigate the awful noise. The door flew away. Then her front door flew open and all the windows burst. She felt as if her ears were full of water. Then everything went black. She woke, bleeding...
...girl (name unknown) was attending a meeting of students at Prague's Charles University. A Communist organizer asked the students to express their political opinions. The girl rose and defied him: "The time when debates in this country do any good has passed," she snapped. Her fellow students cheered. Then the Communist tried to get the students to make nominations to one of his "action committees." He turned down as "unreliable" several names suggested. The girl rose again. She asked: "If you are going to select the candidates, why ask us to elect someone?" That broke up the meeting...
...speaker made our stand on Communism and Wallace perfectly clear; unfortunately few stayed to listen. We wish to correct any unfavorable impression which may have been created. The purpose of this letter, then, is completely to dissociate our organization from the Wallace movement and to express our utter distaste for Communist principles. Gustav Papauck 1G, National Chairman, S.L.L.D...
Those individuals who attended the anti-UMT rally in Sanders Theater on Saturday with the express purpose of shouting down the speakers used tactics that are almost too unoriginal to warrant censure. They have been used repeatedly by Communists to prevent the opposition from being heard; they are also darkly reminiscent of pre-1933 Germany. But unoriginal as the boo, shout, and catcall may be, whenever used to stifle free speech, they demand public denouncement...