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There is a difference, the true seditionist would argue, between a revolution and a gesture of macho defiance. Gestures are cheap. They feel good, they blow off some rage. But revolutions, violent or otherwise, are made by people who have learned how to count very slowly...
Died. Benjamin Davis, 60, secretary of the U.S. Communist Party, racial rabble-rouser among his fellow Negroes, and convicted seditionist (four years, 1951-55, in the federal penitentiary at Terre Haute, Ind.); after a long illness; in Manhattan...
George Sylvester Viereck, Jr. '39, son of the seditionist now serving one to five years in jail for failing to register as a German agent, and one of the 28 who were in the sedition trial at Washington, died on March 24 in Italy. Viereck, who disagreed violently with his father's views, had gone through some of the heaviest fighting on the Anzio beachhead...
Most of the U.S. press, viewing the proceedings with mixed emotions, called for a fair trial, but no nonsense. Manhattan's hyperthyroid PM warned its readers that Hitler, too, was once a silly-looking seditionist who used his trial as a forum for spreading propaganda and winning new converts. The Chicago Tribune, favorite organ of most of the defendants, wrote indulgently of the "crackpots" who were the victims of a New Deal "smear campaign" against isolationist Congressmen...
...Abolish the procedure which sent Adolf Hitler not to jail but to "detention in a fortress" after the failure of his seditious beer hall Putsch in 1923. According to the Ministry of Justice "Detention in a fortress can scarcely be continued, since in the totalitarian State neither the seditionist nor the traitor can very well receive honorable detention...