| | ::''On the morning of 20th July, 1948, Eugene Dennis, the general secretary of the American Communist Party, and eleven other party leaders, included [[William Z. Foster]] and Benjamin Davis, were arrested and charged under the Alien Registration Act. This law, passed by Congress in 1940, made it illegal for anyone in the United States "to advocate, abet, or teach the desirability of overthrowing the government".'' [http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAdennis.htm The case Eugene Dennis] | | ::''On the morning of 20th July, 1948, Eugene Dennis, the general secretary of the American Communist Party, and eleven other party leaders, included [[William Z. Foster]] and Benjamin Davis, were arrested and charged under the Alien Registration Act. This law, passed by Congress in 1940, made it illegal for anyone in the United States "to advocate, abet, or teach the desirability of overthrowing the government".'' [http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAdennis.htm The case Eugene Dennis] |