Word: berkman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Note--Mr. Hartshorne's letter, printed below, is a reply to a letter printed in the CRIMSON on Thursday, May 12, under the title "Radical Autocracy." The letter was signed by V. H. Kramer '35, and criticized the action of the Liberal Club in the Berkman Case...
...reply to Mr. Kramer's first charge allow me to refresh his memory regarding the resolution which demanded the release of Miss Berkman. In the first place it was not drawn up by myself, but was proposed from the floor. As chairman of the meeting I referred it for a vote. An objection was raised that because of the polyglot nature of the group it would be misrepresentative to let the Liberal Club speak through this vote, whatever it might be. The chairman accepted this meeting and the resolution was rephrased to read, "At a meeting called by the Harvard...
...mistake of the students, and of ular, was in falling to exhaust lawful and peaceful means of influencing the officials to release Miss Berkman. Except for a meeting of the Harvard Liberal Club, and some publicity, the efforts to arouse public opinion were incomplete and inefficient. If their cause is a just one those interested could, with sufficient diligence, have won most of the student body to their point of view. With such backing the group might have accomplished a great deal by enlisting the aid of influential people. Their present action exposes them to the accusation of being publicity...
Elsewhere in this issue are given the facts of the Edith Berkman case as presented to the Harvard Liberal club and as gathered from the personal interviews of several Radcliffe and Harvard students with the imprisoned defendent. The account pictures a woman, foreign born, accused of attempted overthrow of the United States government, unable to be legally deported, held in a hospital having contracted tuberculosis at the immigration prison, and what is of more importance-held by an immigration commissioner who has it in her power to recommend release but who refuses to do so in spite of the insistent...
...Edith Berkman we have a concrete example of economic tendencies in our own country. By its nearness is arising an opportunity or rather a demand for students to take a stand. Will it be for enlightened communism, in spite of cynical ideas about the childishness of a hunger strike, or will it be for a support of capitalism even to the degradation of United States democratic principles? The Radcliffe Daily...