Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Park, who covered Far Eastern affairs in his talk, gave the French sponsored government in Indo-China only an even chance of surviving against the Communists. A Communist overthrow in Indo-China might easily be followed by the setting up of similar regimes in Burma, Malaya, and Thailand. He viewed the Far East as the touchiest area facing our foreign policy and recommended long term economic aid such as experimental farms and demonstration factories...
...apologia for its own miserable failure in China: nothing the U.S. could have done, he said once more, could have changed things one iota. "What has happened in my judgment is that the almost inexhaustible patience of the Chinese people in their misery ended. They did not bother to overthrow this [Nationalist] government. There was really nothing to overthrow. They simply ignored it throughout the country . . . The Communists did not create ... a great force which moved out from under Chiang Kaishek. But they were shrewd and cunning to mount it, to ride this thing into victory and power...
There was no need for this sort of measure in in 1948. There was none in 1949. There is still none. There are sufficient laws now to curb really subversive teachers: the Teacher's Oath of 1935, the Smith Act, all the laws against advocating the overthrow of the government by force and violence. And there is certainly no special emergency. One of the supporters of the bill, testifying at the hearing, admitted that he had no evidence of communist infiltration into schools...
...withs its amendments and one section of the Code of Federal Regulations are cited by the State Department as the legal basis for this decision. The law, enacted October 16, 1918, states, in part, that aliens "who are anarchists... (or) who believe in or advocate the overthrow by force or violence of the Government of the United States... (or) who are members of or affiliated with any organization that entertains a belief in, teaches or advocates (such overthrow) shall be excluded from the United States...
...Alien Registration Act of June 28, 1940 extends the act of 1918 to "any alien who at any time shall be or shall have been" a member of, or affiliated with a group advocating violent overthrow...