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...equally tragic is it that Archibald Cox, who in his years as Solicitor General applied his intellectual energies to protect black speakers and demonstrators from the dictatorial powers of redneck sheriffs, should find himself purged by the dictatorship of those who claim association in this University...
Meanwhile the Detective Bureau of the Cambridge Police Department has not even received the warrants signed by University troubleshooter Archibald Cox '34 against the three persons charged with trespassing at Friday's Teach-In, Detective Sergeant JamesRoscoe said yesterday. As soon as the bureau receives the warrants, the suspects will be described on teletype to other areas, and two Cambridge Police detectives will be put on the case, he added...
...have little admiration for the Harvard Administration or its sheriff, Archibald Cox. But when Cox fought back tears to continually plead, "I beg of you to let the speakers be heard," he commanded my empathy and respect. When rational discourse and reasoned argument are abandoned for obscene rhetoric and frenzied screaming, the time has come not to reassess national but personal priorities, and determine what we are learning and living and fighting...
...lesson should be obvious; traditional liberalism can shield a criminal, fascist government just as easily as a criminal, fascist faction within the society. We must recognize what is behind the shield that Archibald Cox was trying to interpose in Sanders Theatre. That shield must be thrust aside and the crimes brought to a halt...
...days before the incident in Sanders Theater the Faculty Council reminded the University community that "deliberate interference with... freedom of speech (including that of any speaker invited to express his views) ... is incompatible with a free university and unacceptable." During the disruption itself Professor Archibald Cox, on behalf of the President and Fellows of Harvard College, similarly stated that "freedom of speech is indivisible. You cannot deny it to one man and save it for others." What occurred in Sanders Theater was not the kind of heckling or spontaneous interruption that often and naturally accompanies political meetings...