Word: theys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The defendants had taught their followers to prepare for the coming of some crisis-a depression, perhaps a war with Russia. At that point the revolutionists would spring into action. Through strikes and sabotage, they would paralyze the industrial machine, bring about the violent overthrow of the Government, establish the...
Said the court: "You can see how completely irreconcilable are the versions of the facts." As to who was telling the truth, he left that to the jury. That was, in the end, all that they had to decide.
But back he went, meticulously making the notes which were a guide to him through all the legal labyrinths of the trial and which, before he was through, filled a two-inch-thick notebook. In the end, the indefatigable man was able to present his long, cool and collected charge...
(from Judge Medina's charge to the jury) ". . .These defendants had the right to advocate by peace ful and lawful means any and all changes in the laws and in the Constitution; they had the right to criticize the President of the United States and the Congress; they had...
"They had a right thus to assert that what they call the democracy of Russia is superior in all respects to American democracy. They had a right thus to assert that the Marshall Plan was a mistake, that billions of dollars should be loaned to Russia and that legislation adversely...