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...same tone as the "Bender Rule." Only once in recent years has the College barred a speaker of unpopular views from University buildings. And the storm the incident provoked yielded a well-learned lesson for the College. The man about whom the controversy centered was the American Communist, Earl Browder...
Early in November of 1939, Jerome D. Greene, Secretary of the Corporation, touched off the issue by refusing permission to the now defunct John Reed Society to sponsor a lecture by Earl Browder in New Lecture Hall...
...Browder battle grew in intensity through the week. By Friday the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Committee had added their prestige to the forces opposing the University's ban. The issue was brought to a head over the weekend when four Harvard professors, Arthur N. Holcombe, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Kirtley F. Mather, and David W. Prall protested the ruling and asked the Corporation to reconsider. The Attorney General of the United States, Frank Murphy, joined in the growing protest to the ruling...
Although there was no secret about his Communist background, Earl Browder would answer no "substantive" question. His reason: "The chairman of this committee has publicly declared that he is out to get me . . ." Now, now, clucked McCarthy, hadn't his testimony kept Browder out of jail in 1951 ? Yes, said Browder, but McCarthy did that only because it served his own interests. Chairman Joe, who in 1951 testified that Browder was not in contempt of the anti-McCarthy Tydings committee, replied that he had done it to serve justice. Said he evenly: "May I say that I have...
...Mandel answered only when he wanted to. Like Browder, he often ducked behind the Fifth Amendment, refused to answer on the ground that his words might incriminate...