Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...convention discussion topics included the Naval Reserve Officers Corps loyalty oath, as well as conservation and development of water power...
...College AVC chapter will use the power of its national affiliate, the American Veterans Committee, to fight for the elimination of the "stool pigeon clause" from the loyalty oath which all Navy men, including college Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps members, are required to fill...
Hadn't Chambers falsified an application for a passport in 1935, signing the name of David Breen? Chambers admitted that he had. What was Chambers' conception of an oath? "I had a Communist's conception of an oath. That it had no binding force on a Communist." Chambers admitted that as a Communist courier he had been "in fact a traitor." Cross went into his more recent, non-Communist past. Chambers admitted that he had lied when he first told a grand jury that he knew of no espionage activities...
...loyalty oath was issued in order to punish and prevent unorthodox political thinking and opinion, and not to prevent subversive action, is clear when we examine the Federal acts in force at the time of the adoption of the order. There existed at that time, and still exist, statutes punishing sabatoge, 50 USC 104-6; espionage, 50 USC 31-2; treason, 18 USC 1-3; sedition, 18 USC 10; and in addition, conspiracy to commit any of the above was punished under 18 USC 88. Also, Federal Civil Service employees are liable for discharge "for such cause as will promote...
...penalty of dismissal for failure to "pass" the loyalty oath is akin to a determination of treason; because of this, the proceeding is in effect, criminal. The Supreme Court, in US v. Lovett, 328 US 303. 317-18 (1946) reviewed the required proceeding safeguards in a criminal proceeding. "An accused in court must be tried by an impartial jury, has a right to be represented by counsel, he must be clearly informed of the charges against him, the law which he is charged with violating must have been passed before he committed the act charged, he must be confronted...