Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presentation of the facts Mr. Farson has neither spared nor struck at the communistic rule. Pointing out that only one out of every hundred Russians are Communists, he presents a picture of one hundred and twenty millions of ignorant peasants, submerged in squalidity and often bewildered by the complete overthrow of the world of their fathers, 'being whipped into shape by the young Communists. In the Communists he finds a "new priesthood" who neither drank nor believed in God "because both of them clouded one's brain," whose courage and self-denial he finds comparable to the Jesuits, whose motto...
...most to blame for the present fierce sprouting of St. Gandhi's movement in more virulent form than ever before. (The Earl himself blamed James Ramsay MacDonald's "wishy-washy milk-and-mushiness!") He resigned as Secretary of State for India some months before the Baldwin Cabinet's overthrow (TIME, Oct. 29, 1928), excusing himself for quitting the sinking Conservative ship by brazenly asserting that his scale of luxurious living demanded more than a Cabinet Minister...
...State Department to hurry and save them from economic disadvantage. Yet Statesman Stimson felt he must not act too promptly lest color be lent to the rumors that the U. S., ill-favored in the Argentine under the regime of ousted President Irigoyen, had encouraged and perhaps abetted his overthrow. Statesman Stimson combined suavity with speed last week by simply including the week-old Argentine government in an announcement recognizing the new governments of Peru (three weeks old) and Bolivia (three months old). Almost simultaneously the London Foreign Office announced that its relations with Argentina remained unbroken. Statesman Stimson...
...they are ready to repeal their decree repudiating obligations to this country . . . they can do so. It requires no conference or negotiations to accomplish these results which can and should be achieved at Moscow as evidence of good faith. . . . Most serious is the continued propaganda to overthrow the institutions of this country. This Government can enter into no negotiations until these efforts are abandoned...
Membership in the Communist Party renders a Pole liable to the penalty of Death because court decisions have established a legal presumption in Poland that anyone who is a Communist is ipso facto attempting to overthrow the Government and is therefor guilty of treason...