Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sarton said that to his knowledge Struik has not advocated the overthrow of the U.S. government by force. "I don't believe that he has been so strong in his statements as some Republicans have been in speaking about Truman and Roosevelt," Sarton commented...
Similar charges were made against Struik who was suspended by M.I.T. following his indictment on conspiracy charges. The Committee described him as a "communist teacher of violent overthrow of the government." Both Struik and Mather the Committee contends, should have been dismissed by their respective colleges as soon as they were accused--no matter by whom--of sympathy with communism...
...does today. Readers of the Philbrick series, most of whom have already blurred the distinction between pacifism and sedition, can hardly be expected to remember that the distinction existed in even clearer terms during the early forties. Those who were members of these groups may not have wished to overthrow the government then; they may not wish to overthrow it now, and they may not even be pacifists now. Despite all these possibilities, they will be associated with sedition by a large segment of the American population...
Dirk Jan Struik, suspended M.I.T. professor of Mathematics, denied yesterday charges made in a bill of particulars filed by the District Attorney Tuesday that he conspired to overthrow the governments of the United States and Massachusetts by force and violence...
...press conference held at his home, Struik, under indictment for conspiracy, said "it is true that I have lectured and written on Marxist subjects, but it is not true that I have advocated the overthrow of the government by force and violence...