Word: american
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...College AVC chapter will use the power of its national affiliate, the American Veterans Committee, to fight for the elimination of the "stool pigeon clause" from the loyalty oath which all Navy men, including college Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps members, are required to fill...
...complaint calls the "stool pigeon clause" a "menace to American freedom" and a "special threat to academic freedom." It also says the clause is "totally ineffective as a test of loyalty...
Governor Smith in 1923, when repealing New York's anti-sedition statutes which required loyalty oaths, said the laws "were repugnant to the fundamentals of American democracy...
...tried by a jury, have no right to counsel, are not clearly informed of the charges against them; the loyalty order is ex post facto in effect, and there is no right to examine witnesses or evidence used against the accused. This is the type of un-American proceeding which is embodied in the loyalty order. This is the proceeding used by "patriots" to ferret out "subversives...
Students can assign their money to any of six student charities: the World Student Service Fund, the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students, the Salzburg Seminar, Phillips Brooks House, the American Field Service International Scholarships, and Student Council Scholarships, or to any other national or local charity they choose...