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...fact-finding survey showing the state of student self-rule across the nation. A more peppery issue: that of "student rights" to free expression and free enterprise in behalf of political belief (no matter how unpopular at the hour). The NSA uncompromisingly supported the right of such groups as AYD to exist with official recognition so long as they meet standard local extracurricular requirements. On the question of discrimination in professional training and quota systems in undergraduate schools the NSA decided upon a policy of bringing the light of publicity to bear upon the facts-when they can be winnowed...
Walker comments that "The thing was led by Harry A. Mendelsohn and his AYD friends. Mendelsohn may not be a member of the party, but in two years acquaintance with him, I've never seen his disagree with the party or fail to support its local front groups." I can only say of the first statement that I find it highly flattering, because the "thing" was one of the finest demonstrations ever to take place in Boston, and, indeed, ranks high on the long list of demonstrations which have been organized against Smith throughout the country. As for the second...
...sentence as "If Communists were among the demonstrators, good for them," did not know the organizing group was Communist. Their accusing the CRIMSON of spreading "the untruth that resistance to Smith was . . . primarily Communist" is at best disingenuous. The thing was led by Harry A. Mendelsohn and his AYD friends. Mendelsohn may not be a member of the party, but in two years acquaintance with him I've never seen him disagree with the party or fail to support its local front groups. If this was not Communist led, the burden of proof lies on those charging the CRIMSON with...
...Wilbur, Wilcox, Whiteside and du Bouchet want a continued comfortable academic environment in which the AYD can have a chapter, I suggest they give some active support to the social-democratic quietism which the CRIMSON'S wellargued editorial recommended. James A. Walker
...face of red-baiting of AYD as a whole and HYD in the local press, we wish to make known the aims and principles of HYD as set down in the preamble of HYD's constitution...