Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presupposes that whoever asks it has still failed to grasp that Communists mean exactly what they have been saying for a hundred years: they regard any government that is not Communist, including their own, merely as the political machine of a class whose power they have organized expressly to overthrow by all means, including violence. Therefore, ultimately, the problem of espionage never presents itself to them as a problem of conscience, but as a problem of operations...
...your report of last night's meeting on the Struik case there is an error which, though apparently trivial, actually completely destroys the meaning of my remarks. You state (as did Mr. Donlon) that Struik was indicted for conspiring to overthrow the government by force. Actually (as I pointed out by reading the indictment) the charge is conspiring to advocate overthrowing the government. From the point of view of freedom of speech the distinction is absolutely essential. The Civil Liberties Union does not recognize any right to overthrow the government by force, or to conspire to do so. It does...
Mentioning, the second item of the bill of particulars delivered to Struik at the time of his attempt to quash the indictment against him--an item which says that Struik planned to advocate the overthrow of the government--Mather cracked. "It is so easy for some to know the inner workings of the minds of others. There is a striking contrast between the indictment of a professor of Mathematics at M.I.T. and of an official of the Communist party...
Donlan charged that "the very right to try a man on such a charge (conspiracy to overthrow the government) has been challenged. There is a feeling in certain influential quarters that under our constitution a man has the right to advocate and to conspire to overthrow the government by force and violence...
Donlan attacked "those scientific minds who advocate the overthrow of our government" as an "elite class," members of "an exoteric cult which considers itself as outside of and above the law." Donlan compared these men with the scientists who condoned Hitler's medical experiments in the concentration camps...