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...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...
Glasser's counsel during the hearings was Leonard B. Boudin, whose letter defending those who refuse to testify before the House Committee was published in yesterday's CRIMSON...
...their constitutional right to refuse to answer questions concerning political beliefs and associations, so dangerous in the present climate, and that they will oppose administrative punishment of their colleagues who have taken this forthright position. It this is not done, the cost is too ghastly to contemplate. Leonard B. Boudin...