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Letters to the Administration have largely condemned the statement, according to William Bentinck-Smith, assistant to the President. Few have come from alumni, he said; rather, they have been sent mainly by citizens "deeply involved with the counter evolution...
...Bentinck-Smith gave Leed and Milde no assurance at the end of their discussion that any action would be taken. But, according to Leed, he telephoned them 15 minutes later and said Pusey had agreed to allow the concert under the following conditions...
...Bentinck-Smith later explained, "There's a difference between somebody performing at Harvard as an artist, and appearing as a political figure." About the 1953 Owen Lattimore speech, which Dean Watson reluctantly allowed Lattimore to give, Bentinck-Sraith said, "If Lattimore was going to talk about China, that was all right. But it was not all right for him to talk about his own case...
...University's original objection, Bentinck-Smith said, was that it did not want a political rally held for Seeger. He stressed the importance of the University's not seeming to take sides in an unsettled case...
...There should be no Harvard seal on the thing, one way or another," Bentinck-Smith asserted...