Archive Report
Archive Report
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Richard M. Boeckel, Editor
Subversive Activity and the Defense Program
Fears engendered by disclosures of fifth-column operations in other countries, a general tenseness resulting from the war in Europe, and a determination to safeguard the effective prosecution of the national-defense program have led Congress, in the current session, to strengthen existing laws against espionage and sabotage and to enact new legislation to curb and penalize various forms of subversive activity. Similar proposals, repeatedly urged upon Congress in recent years, had hitherto been resisted on the ground that they might provide ...