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...what this can mean has been demonstrated in capsule scale during the past month in Michigan, where newly-elected Governor Kim Sigler declared war in Michigan Youth for Democratic Action, an affiliate of American Youth for Democracy. When the administration of Michigan State College made membership in its tiny AYD chapter a probationary offense, 22 faculty members representing 11 departments and 27 students representing 16 organizations jumped into action immediately at the nearby University of Michigan in Ann Arbor to form a Committee for Academic Freedom. The broad base of this solidified campus hostility is mild indication of what...
Michigan's Committee encompasses the influence of the student legislature and the University Religious Association. It would be preposterous to claim that these groups like lending their support to the AYD. Many of their members combat the AYD where it hurts most: in the large AVC and Interracial Association units which are objects of infiltration. They know, however, that what they are really coming to grips with is an entering wedge for controlled extracurricular student life; and while they duly shun the AYD, they realize that suppression will only force it underground...
...AYD or any other Communist-front can carry along well-meaning youth in the most despicable form of political exploitation, the real job is not to look under the bed but to offer a genuine progressive program in the democratic organizations. A witch-hunt indiscriminately pinning the Red label to independent-thinking individuals or magnifying the significance of the neurotic schoolboy Party Liner will only serve to arouse thousands of students across the country in defense of civil liberties. The informed in every stratum of society will surely resist obvious hysteria-shenanigans. Republican leaders are inviting near-unanimous condemnation from...
Making the point that although Harvard members of the American Youth for Democracy who are also members of the Liberal Union may perfectly well not be Communists, the overwhelming majority of the members of the Liberal Union concluded that AYD's origination in the Young Communist League and the antics of certain of its national officers render the charge that AYD is Communist-inspired a valid one. However, the fact that Communist front leadership has been decisively rejected does not mean that the Liberal Union has completely resolved its own version of the liberal program. For if the rejection...
...long time played a very real part in liberal movements. They are traditionally extremely energetic in political action, they are more alert to vital issues on which the average liberal would tend to talk about from the security of his own arm chair. The continued presence of AYD members within the framework of the Liberal Union is more than a case of whether the Liberal Union is to be considered as a genuinely democratic organization. Failure to work alongside the Communists, or the AYD, or what you will, on limited short-term objectives on which all happen to agree...