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President Pusey has sent a strongly-worded letter to Senator John F. Kennedy '40, requesting that his committee, a sub-group of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, recommend to Congress the elimination of the affidavit and oath requirements in the National Defense Education...
Pusey's letter may be read before the Senate as part of an organized protest against the controversial section 1001, sub-section (f) of the Act, which Pusey termed "rude and unworthy of the Congress." It requires that the applicant file an affidavit certifying that "he does not believe in, and is not a member of and does not support any organization that believes in or teaches the overthrow of the United States Government" by unconstitutional methods...
...loyalty oath" were merely ineffective, a growing list of major colleges--including Bryn Mawr, Harvard, Haverford, Princeton, Sarah Lawrence, Swarthmore and Yale--would not have protested so strongly. The real danger is that the required affidavit constitutes an inquiry into vaguely defined associations and beliefs. To secure his loan, an applicant must swear that he does not "believe in" any organization that "believes in" certain programs. But the Act provides no objective criteria, nor can it, for judging what beliefs are "subversive." In its most dangerous implication, the "loyalty oath" requires a blanket rejection of participation, or belief...
...loyalty oath" provision while mouthing platitudes on academic freedom, the Trustees of Amherst College last week rejected a $1340 grant received under the student loan program of the National Defense Education Act. Their action dramatizes wide-spread objection to the clause requiring every loan applicant to file an affidavit that he "does not believe in, and is not a member of and does not support any organization that believes in or teaches, the overthrow of the U.S. government by force or violence or by any illegal or unconstitutional means...
...affidavit requirement is not only ineffective. It is invidious, and Congress should repeal it without delay...