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...only concrete evidence against Thomson, and hence, for Brady's petition, was a letter from Thomson to Senator Bricker and a verified statement by the HYRC president in the CRIMSON, both disparaging the Political Forum...
Last night Brady said he was specifically basing this petition on an attempt by the Conservative League to dissuade Rep. Harold H. Velde from addressing his group in November, and Thomson's admitted urging of Senator John Bricker not to address the Forum, as well as his alleged influence in helping cause Senator Styles Bridges to cancel his Forum talk...
...president of the Young Republican Club, by allegedly using his influence for the second time to prevent a Republican from speaking before another College group, has gone just one step too far. When John R. Thomson first tried this stunt in the fall with Senator Bricker, it was possible to laugh the whole thing off as just another squabble between rival political clubs. But now that he seems to have pulled the same trick again, this time with Senator Bridges, it is clear that his actions are subverting the whole structure of undergraduate organizations and deserve immediate condemnation...
...conscious policy of the HYRC president of urging Republican speakers to boycott the Political Forum is clear from the facts alone. In the fall, Thomson urged Senator Bricker not to speak before the Political Forum since, according to Thomson, the Senator's audience would be "stacked greatly against" the Bricker Amendment. Bricker subsequently turned the Forum invitation down, but claimed that he "didn't pay any attention" to Thomson's plea. For his second effort to undermine the Political Forum, Thomson found somebody in Washington who admitted paying attention. Apparently, Thomson's pressure on the Chairman of the national...
Botswick, the Forum members said, asked Bridges not to appear under the auspices of the Forum. "Anyone would get clobbered before the Forum by liberals asking loaded questions," Botswick explained. In November, Thomson said that if Bricker appeared before the Forum, he would find the clubs "stacked greatly against...