Word: objectives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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West Berlin's anti-Communist press called the treaty "treason." The Western Allies ignored the agreement. The U.S. did not object to the return of the Sudetenland to Czechoslovakia-it did condemn the brutal expulsion of its German inhabitants, most of whom now crowd Western Germany...
...Klement Gottwald, chairman of the Communist Party, or Prime Minister Antonin Zapotocky. (While both men seem to hold undisputed authority, it has been rumored that Moscow does not completely trust them.) The entire population is covered by a secret police network, fed by informers among the party members. Chief object of police persecution is the middle class, about 20,000 to 30,000 of whom are now in forced labor camps. New camps are now being built...
...Some object to this more exacting standard of judicial examination, asserting that if the Court does not leave the limitation of free speech to the legislatures, it will betray a lack of faith in the democratic process. Others fear that too much freedom will undermine the prestige and efficiency of democracy and thereby endanger that very liberty which we seek to protect. Accordingly, the Court should not impede the legislatures in their efforts to reconcile liberty with authority. Policy should be made not by the judges but by the elected representatives...
...referred to President Conant as a gent "partial to Russians, highly tolerant of Communists, but with their enemies the German Nazis, is harsh and refuses them opportunity to speak at Harvard." Conant and a large number of other faculty members appeared personally at the Teacher's Oath hearing to object to what they considered a serious abrogation of their freedom...
...principle object of McDermott's attack was J. Raymond Walsh, an instructor in Economics who had been active in labor relations work. This activity at the time made him suspect of communist leanings. A bill for repeal passed the General Court but was vetoed by Governor Hurley on the grounds that the era was not one for "withdrawing the authority of the state...