Agence intercontinentale paris (5 risultati)

Condizione: Good. Silver print. French text on separate sheet pasted to verso. Photographer's stamp verso. 13 x 18 cm.

Condizione: Good. Silver print. French text on separate sheet pasted to verso. Photographer's stamp verso. 13 x 18cm.Elizabeth Bentley (1908-1963) was an American communist and Soviet spy. She worked closely with Jacob Goros to manage the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) network of KGB sources and spies. In 1945, she defected and confessed her involvement with the KGB to the FBI. In her FBI deposition, she also named forty-one Soviet spies and sources living and working in the United States.On the afternoon of July 20, 1948, FBI agents began rounding up twelve men in New York City, Chicago, and Detroit whom the U.S. government believed posed a grave threat to the nation--the leadership of the Communist Party-USA. After a series of delays, eleven of the twelve "top Reds" went on trial in Manhattan's Foley Square in January 1949.The proceedings captivated the nation, but the trial quickly dissolved into farce. The eleven defendants were charged under the 1940 Smith Act with conspiring to teach the necessity of overthrowing the U.S. government based on their roles as party leaders and their distribution of books and pamphlets. In essence, they were on trial for their libraries and political beliefs, not for overt acts threatening national security. Despite the clear conflict with the First Amendment, the men were convicted and their appeals denied by the U.S. Supreme Court in a decision that gave the green light to federal persecution of Communist Party leaders--a decision the court effectively reversed six years later. But by then, the damage was done. So rancorous was the trial the presiding judge sentenced the defense attorneys to prison terms, too, chilling future defendants' access to qualified counsel. …

Condizione: Good. Silver print. French text on separate sheet pasted to verso. Photographer's stamp verso. 13 x 18cm."The arrest of GerhardtEisler, US Communistleader, on a Polish ship atSouthampton on Sundaywas legal, a British ForeignOffice spokesman said yes-terday.The ship was in British terri-torial waters and within Brit-ish jurisdiction, the spokesmansaid.Therefore it was within Britishcompetence to arrest someonewanted on an extraditioncharge.The fact that Eisler had beenarrested did not prejudice inany way the question ofwhether he should be extraditedor not. That would be decidedwhen he appeared before themagistrate and when it wasseen whether there was suffi-cient evidence for the AngloAmerican extradition treaty tobe invoked."Kidnapping"Warsaw Radio described Es-ter's arrest as "a brutal kid-napping by Scotland Yard."It said that Eisler was goingto Leipzig, where he had beenappointed a lecturer at the uni-versity.The British Council for Ger-man Democracy has engaged aLondon solicitor to representEisler.Miss Dorothy Diamond, assis-tant secretary of the council,said it was formed during thewar to encourage anti-Fascismin Germany."We are not interested in Eis-ler as a Communist," she said,"but as an anti-Nazi refugee.".…

Condizione: Good. Silver print. French text on separate sheet pasted to verso. Photographer's stamp verso. 13 x 18cm.On the afternoon of July 20, 1948, FBI agents began rounding up twelve men in New York City, Chicago, and Detroit whom the U.S. government believed posed a grave threat to the nation--the leadership of the Communist Party-USA. After a series of delays, eleven of the twelve "top Reds" went on trial in Manhattan's Foley Square in January 1949.The proceedings captivated the nation, but the trial quickly dissolved into farce. The eleven defendants were charged under the 1940 Smith Act with conspiring to teach the necessity of overthrowing the U.S. government based on their roles as party leaders and their distribution of books and pamphlets. In essence, they were on trial for their libraries and political beliefs, not for overt acts threatening national security. Despite the clear conflict with the First Amendment, the men were convicted and their appeals denied by the U.S. Supreme Court in a decision that gave the green light to federal persecution of Communist Party leaders--a decision the court effectively reversed six years later. But by then, the damage was done. So rancorous was the trial the presiding judge sentenced the defense attorneys to prison terms, too, chilling future defendants' access to qualified counsel.…

Condizione: Good. Silver print . French text on separate sheet pasted to verso. Photographer's stamp verso. 13 x 18cm.On the afternoon of July 20, 1948, FBI agents began rounding up twelve men in New York City, Chicago, and Detroit whom the U.S. government believed posed a grave threat to the nation--the leadership of the Communist Party-USA. After a series of delays, eleven of the twelve "top Reds" went on trial in Manhattan's Foley Square in January 1949.The proceedings captivated the nation, but the trial quickly dissolved into farce. The eleven defendants were charged under the 1940 Smith Act with conspiring to teach the necessity of overthrowing the U.S. government based on their roles as party leaders and their distribution of books and pamphlets. In essence, they were on trial for their libraries and political beliefs, not for overt acts threatening national security. Despite the clear conflict with the First Amendment, the men were convicted and their appeals denied by the U.S. Supreme Court in a decision that gave the green light to federal persecution of Communist Party leaders--a decision the court effectively reversed six years later. But by then, the damage was done. So rancorous was the trial the presiding judge sentenced the defense attorneys to prison terms, too, chilling future defendants' access to qualified counsel.…