Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Police refused to believe that this "Boxheim Document," unquestionably genuine, was anything less than a secret Fascist program to overthrow the German State. Acting on this assumption, they asked Federal Attorney General Dr. Werner to prosecute the Hessian Fascists for high treason. Dr. Werner refused to prosecute...
Said he: "I find that the document submitted presupposes the existence of general chaos after the overthrow of the present Government. It is not directed against any government holding office now, and hence affords no ground for a charge of high treason. Rather it sets forth as its premise that legal and constitutional government shall have been overthrown and replaced by the rule of a Commune. This illegal régime would then be replaced by one of the National Socialists who would undertake measures for the restoration of order and security...
...because of a feeling that the education derived therefrom will enable them to build up a nation that needs their help. There is the feeling, all too frequently, that American luxury and case are here, and we are here to enjoy them. We have no Hitler organizing us to overthrow what is considered an inadequate governmental regime. As University students we are not organized into student Fascist societies, to whom the responsibility for building a nation is assigned. Few if any Harvard students, for example, are much distressed over the fact that in the present situation of Indian affairs...
...militant youth--the Young Germany, Young-Italy, Young Hungary of the nineteenth century--were essentially revolutionary movements. The Young Germans who are drawn today to Hitler or the Communists are enlisting for revolution, at least by way of title. The young Camelots du Roi in Paris are out to overthrow the French Republic. In this country we have no such issues to inflame youth. On lesser questions the democratic environment favors a solution by democratic machinery. --New York Times...
...found that he was indeed no churl. He was the hidden son of the dead Duke of Buckingham whom King Harry had swept aside on his way to the throne. Peter suddenly found himself a man with a destiny. A group of ambitious, discontented nobles wanted to help him overthrow King Harry. Through his guardian, Brother Tobias, the Church also beckoned his aid. But the faction which turned out to be his unswerving support were the furtive, secret folk who had been driven to the greenwood by oppression...