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...Labor and Public Welfare, with, said Kennedy, "the understanding that we would reconsider the legislation." In the coming session of Congress, the two Senators plan a change in tactics as they again "press for the enactment" of their bill. "It may be necessary to separate consideration" of the loyalty affidavit and the disclaimer affidavit, Kennedy indicated, for "there is much wider support for the deletion" of the latter...
...attempt to separate consideration of the two parts of the NDEA loyalty provision--the controversial affidavit, and the relatively innocuous affirmation--Kennedy hopes to avoid the confusion which aided his opponents in last summer's debate. "I just cannot understand," said Senator Styles Bridges, for example, "why these young people--yes, and their august teachers also--would not deem it a privilege to take this oath...
...participation. The trustees meeting on January 31 gave authorization to the president to act as he saw fit in the matter. Consequently, President Sullivan wired the U.S. Commissioner of Education on February 2 that Reed would not participate in the program as long as the requirement of a negative affidavit was demanded...
Members of the Faculty of Bowdoin College have adopted resolutions in which they urge amendments of the NDEA by the removal of a section which requires participants under the Act to execute a so-called "disclaimer oath" and affidavit, believing it to be an infringement of academic freedom...
...Statment" incorporated as part of the preceding resolution: We, the faculty of Bowdoin College, strongly object to the affidavit for the following reasons: First, it will restrict the exercise of academic freedom by both students and teachers. This effect arises because the affidavit constitutes an inquiry into belief and association and because its meaning is extremely vague. No objective criteria are given for identifying the organizations alluded to, and what constitutes support is not specified...