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Depriving the Federal Government of the power to suppress the activities of sedition groups, groups, specifically advocating the overthrow of the government by force, must obviously make the government more susceptible to revolution. Surely the HLU and its associates will not contest the right of the government to put down an active revolution. Were there no Smith Act the government would be forced to differentiate between actions which could he construed to mean "advocating" the overthrow of the government and those which would actually constitute participating in a seditious uprising. Not only would such a situation create an extremely knotty...
...fact," Floyd said, "that Americans know little of Russian, Canadian, and South American history, but that is not on account of any action of Harvard historians. Granted that Harvard has had more influence in the teaching of history throughout the country, it has not had enough influence to suppress the teaching of the stories of those countries. It is just a matter of what people want to study about, and are interested...
Saturday. Official Soviet spokesman says, this is "much ado about nothing," blames "the big rumpus" in the U.S. on pro-Germans. The British announce their Ambassador has urged Stalin to suppress atheistic propaganda...
...Jamie Brooke had been wounded in a battle in the Brahmaputra valley, mutilated and doomed to a childless future. Unable to marry, he took to the sea, which he said "wants nothing but a gallant heart from her lover." He put into Blidah Fort, Borneo, helped suppress a rebellion against a Malay prince, wound up by becoming absolute monarch of 50,000 square miles of viciously virginal jungle in northwest Borneo...
...dislike Hitler and would gladly see him frazzled. They would be less than human if they did not. Hero Lindbergh, piously declaring that "no person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany," offered U.S. Jews advice: they should suppress their natural opinion. He added: "The Jewish groups in this country should be opposing it [war] ... for they will be among the first to feel its consequences." The plain implication was that the Jews will be blamed for war if it comes and will be persecuted because of it when...