Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carlos Prío Socarrás, 50, Cuba's President until his overthrow last year in a military coup, was arrested in Miami last week by a U.S. marshal. The charge: conspiring to smuggle arms out of the U.S. in violation of the 1939 neutrality act. Hotly protesting his innocence, Prío was freed on $50,000 bail to appear this week in a U.S. district court in Manhattan...
...little over two years ago, three people--a woman and two men, were indicted for conspiring to overthrow the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Yet after the indictment, there was no trial, no further charges. The wheels of justice had apparently stopped...
...three can only wait. Struik sums up their position, "How is it possible," he asks, "that a government can accuse a man of trying to overthrow it by force, and then let him freely wander the streets for two years...
...refuse to testify under the Fifth Amendment on the ground that their testimony might incriminate them . . . If the Government, under proper safeguards, is authorized to grant immunity to such persons, we believe we can obtain testimony which will assist in tracking down the higher-ups engaged in conspiracy to overthrow our Government by force and violence...
...Europe, I reply: If we turn our back, Europe will still exist. It will be no more or no less German . . . If we admit that [France] is not strong enough to carry on a European policy, how would she be better able to follow a policy of isolation . . .? To overthrow a foreign policy without having any alternative policy to offer would be not only grave, it would be criminal...