Word: taught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Medina sent the jury out, then explained: if the books taught methods of carrying out a violent revolution and if they were actually used to instruct revolutionists, then it was not the books that were on trial but the men who put them...
Judge Medina agreed wholeheartedly: "There is the issue in the case. You and the other defendants here say: 'This was all a perfectly innocent thing. We never advocated or taught . . . overthrow of the Government by force or violence at all. All we wanted to do was to bring about certain salutary social reforms, and to do it by a perfectly legitimate party . . . ' That, as I see it, goes right to the heart of the matter...
...Communists told it, such books as the party's official History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Stalin's Foundations of Leninism were taught and studied by the faithful, not only as dogma, but "as guides to action." Only by violent action, the curriculum taught, could bourgeois governments be overthrown...
...Were the Culprits? Putting their book-learning to practical use, said the witnesses, the party faithful were ordered to infiltrate U.S. war plants, e.g., General Electric at Lynn, Mass., manufacturers of jet engines. They were taught that when another "heavy depression" hit the U.S., the time would have arrived to destroy its Government; that if the U.S. adopted an "imperialist" policy, i.e., one opposed to the policy of the Soviet Union, the party must wage "civil...
...would be responsible for "communist teachings" and schools would no longer be liable to loss of their tax exemptions, the purpose and result of the measure remain the same. The important point is that the state would have the power to say who would teach and what should be taught in private educational institutions. A sleuth in a classroom is a threat to academic freedom whether he is compiling "evidence" against a school or an individual professor...