Word: boudin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leonard Boudin, a prominent passport lawyer, will address the Harvard Liberal Union's forum tonight. He will speak on "The State Department vs. The Right to Travel" in Emerson...
...fascism. The tremendous concern with academic freedom as an abstract doctrine often caused men to tacitly implicate a university in their refusal to answer questions. The rationale of those who used the Fifth Amendment was best stated in a letter to the CRIMSON from New York lawyer Leonard B. Boudin on March 19. "...In refusing to cooperate with the Velde and Jenner committees, the witnesses are asserting their constitutional right to freedom of speech, belief, conscience and assembly. The Supreme Court has not consented to hear such First Amendment claims in recent cases involving congressional investigations. That...
...Boudin's suggestion in a recent letter to the CRIMSON defeats the purpose he purports to defend. The teacher who asserts his Fifth-Amendment privilege before a Congressional committee must share responsibility--along with the McCarthys and the Jenners--for further encroachments of academic freedom. The hostility and antagonism aroused by "I refuse to answer because it might incriminate me" leads to more persecution, not to more respect for the teaching profession. Refusal to testify creates suspicion and distrust, both in the minds of the investigating Congressmen and in the minds of the general public. Regardless of how justified these...
...note that Mr. Boudin, whose letter concerning testimony before Congressional bodies appeared in your issue of the nineteenth, quotes a few lines from an article written by Professor Chafee in the Kansas Law Review some time...
...Chafee is in Europe. However, a few months ago when the same quotation was previously published in a letter to the CRIMSON, Mr. Chafee wrote to the CRIMSON a word of commentary. In view of the repetition of this quotation in Mr. Boudin's letter, I would appreciate it if you would print the applicable comment by Mr. Chafee...