Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over Radio Peking last week came a curious report. There had been an attempt, said the official Communist radio, to overthrow the government. The plotters were a group of "religious sects" operating among the Buddhist farmers of Hopei Province (who have always chafed under the Communists' anti-religious policies). The government had found, near Peking, 27 underground "code rooms" and "hideaways," one of them big enough for more than 30 people. The rebels had intended to re-establish a monarchy...
...that academic freedom does not entitle a scholar to disregard the law of the state from its usual application to specific acts--such as murder or theft--to embrace a system of ideas, in so far as communism is such a system, and in so far as it advocates overthrow of the American government. While the moral issue does not disappear by making communism a sort of civil offense, it is relegated to far less importance. "Tattling" on former associates in communism becomes closer in degree to informing about suspected thiefs. In both cases, those accused may actually be innocent...
...Quict Overthrow...
...cannot believe that Miss Hale, in her twelve years of activity in the Communist Party," the majority of the Committee asserted, "did not learn the doctrine (of violent overthrow of existing governments) or hear it advocated, or know of the distribution of literature advocating it. . . We conclude that she did not tell the truth on April 23, that she did so in order to defend the Communist Party...
...cited that under present law it is a felony to advocate the overthrow of the state or federal government by unlawful means. Since there would be "creditable evidence" against the names listed in the Commission's report, he said this would violate Article XXV of the Declaration of Rights of the State Constitution...