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...religious group, but to their country. Why, it is as silly to refer to Paul Robeson as a "traitor to the good name of the American Negro" as it would be to refer to Frederick Vanderbilt Field or Corliss Lament as "traitors to the good name of the American Anglo-Saxon...
Since she had previously stated that there had been no other applicants for the position, this sounded rather peculiar to me. On the basis of this unpleasant suspicion, and because our name is distinctly Jewish, I asked my husband to call the same number using an "Anglo-Saxon" name. He did so and was immediately connected with the man who had placed the ad, who told him that the job was open and gave an enthusiastic account of its advantages. To be absolutely certain, I then called again under a non-Jewish name and was given the same cordial treatment...
Several factors produce this situation--a more hostile and tense situation than exists in Cambridge. Foremost is the sharply contrasting racial makeup of the University and the city, which has given rise to countless "incidents." New Haven is 40 percent Italian, 25 percent Irish, and ten percent Anglo-Saxon. At Yale, the proportion is almost exactly reversed...
Stevenson has defended his testimony by saying that it would be "a sad day for Anglo-Saxon justice when any man, especially a lawyer, will refuse to give honest evidence in criminal trial for fear the defendant may eventually be found guilty." Last week 22 lawyers, some of them Republicans and Eisenhower supporters, came to his defense. So did the pro-Eisenhower New York Times. Said the lawyers: "The governor . . . did what any good citizen should have done . . ." The Democrats pointed out that Republican John Foster Dulles had endorsed Hiss for the presidency of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace...
Edgar F. Shannon, assistant professor of English and former Rhodes Scholar, told a Lamont Forum Room audience last night that the Rhodes awards are a means of fostering the Anglo-Saxon world community...