Word: aec
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congressman could scarcely believe his ears. "You would keep a Communist in school and let the Government pay?" demanded Ohio's Charles H. Elston. Said AEC Chairman David Lilienthal flatly: "I would...
Lilienthal was trying to explain to the Joint Atomic Energy Committee why AEC had granted a $1,600 fellowship to Hans Freistadt, a University of North Carolina student and an avowed Communist (TIME, May 23). He had an uneasy time of it. And when the Joint Committee was through with him, a Senate subcommittee considering the AEC appropriation seized hapless Chairman Lilienthal and put him on a grill...
...Senators on the committee, these impassioned words seemed scarcely to fit the case. Snapped Wyoming's Joseph C. O'Mahoney: "A completely doctrinaire and unrealistic attitude ... It is not a question of whether an individual may attend a school or speak freely. The issue is whether AEC shall use public funds to educate persons who are members of an organization pledged to overthrow our government...
...imminent through extension of the principle that a man's political beliefs and affiliations can in themselves serve as a standard to determinte his eligibility for membership in an academic community. For as a result of the attention drawn to the cases of Hans Friestadt and Isador Edelman, AEC fellows selected by the National Research Council, it has been proposed that loyalty tests be administered to determinte the acceptability of candidates for government-financed scholarships...
...added that the AEC probably with held this information from him because if didn't want to get him spent and involved in a hearing. It simply feat him to a laboratory not engaged in secret work...