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...Executive Committee of the John Reed Society last night stated that "the decision of the Corporation is an unsatisfactory equivocation" and that it did not change the position of the University made by Jerome D. Greene, Secretary of the Corporation, when he ruled last week that Browder could not speak...
...Society declared that the Corporation's decision to refer the matter to a committee is "a flimsy device to avoid the well-deserved wrath of the students who have demanded that the University grant the John Reed Society a hall in which to present Earl Browder...
...letters to the CRIMSON two opponents of the Communist Party supported the John Reed Society's request to get University sanction. Granville Hicks, former Communist leader who broke with the party over war policies this fall, defended Browder's right to speak despite his pending trial...
Richard Pitts '41, President of the Harvard Socialist League, an organization supporting Trotsky, also wrote in support of Browder's speaking at Harvard...
...Greene must certainly be surprised by the repercussions attending his refusal to grant a hall for a Browder meeting--from a "question of taste" it has become a "question of civil liberties." If the purpose of his action was not to deny free speech, it has, nevertheless, that very function, and in the present time when there is a general hounding of unorthodox, political groups, anything which might signify a restriction of free speech, a surrender to Mr. Dies' blackmailing, is to be carefully avoided. Mr. Greene's legitimate protest to the "New York Times" on its handling...