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...Henry D. Aiken, professor of Philosophy, has criticized McGeorge Bundy, special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, for his refusal to "acknowledge a special accountability" to the academic community on the subject of U.S. policy in Vietnam...
...letter in this week's issue of time magazine, Aiken decried the chilliness and scorn" of a letter written by Bundy--and printed in Time (May 7) in which he rejected the invitation 127 faculty members to come to Washington University and answer their questions about Vietnam...
...Aiken described Bundy as "more rapid than accurate, more facile than . . ." He said that the icy tone Bundy's refusal was a sign "of bureaucratic self-righteousness" resulting from prolonged "insulation" from the anxieties that Mr. Bundy's colleagues toward the foreign policies that he has helped shape in recent years...
Within 48 hours, the appropriation was approved by both houses with enormous majorities. But some Congressmen were not very happy about it. Vermont's Republican Senator George Aiken insisted that his affirmative vote was by no means "an endorsement of the costly mistakes of the past." Oregon Democrat Wayne Morse, one of three Senators to vote nay (the others: Alaskan Democrat Ernest Gruening and Wisconsin Democrat Gaylord Nelson), seemed almost hysterical. "My government," he cried, "today stands before the world drunk with military power...
Other Harvard members of the Com- mittee include George H. Williams, Hollis Professor of Divinity; Henry D. Aiken, professor of Philosophy; Ralph F. Baierlcin '58, instructor in Physics; David F. Cavers, Fessenden Professor of Law; H. Stuart Hughes, professor of History; and Everett I. Mendelsohn, assistant professor of the History of Science