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...justifies his ejection of the student president of the Harvard Socialist League from the Browder protest rally with the categorical assertion that Mr. Pitts attempted to "disrupt" the meeting. He further attempts to discredit Pitts by indulging in talk about the "destructive activities of those who call themselves Trotskyites...
...late as midnight, no answer to the Lampoon's invitation had been received from Browder. Read explained that a telegram had been addressed to the C. P. Head care of the Kremlin, and that the delay might have been caused by the difference in time between New York and Moscow...
...November twenty-third Thanksgiving, the unanimity of the College is striking and especially symbolized by the historic rapprochement between the Crimson and the Lampoon. Little room for disagreement can now remain. Considering the issue more vital than the John Reed Society protest, the magazine editors have invited Mr. Browder to attack this curtailment of religious freedom from the steps of their Mount Auburn Street building. Perhaps it can be considered fortunate that infringement of speech and religion have occurred together. In one telling blow, delivered to a crowd that should block every street from Plympton to Dunster, Browder can express...
...main speaker of the evening, Mr. Lamont said that the University was stifling free speech by Communist leaders, and refused to consider that the University merely refuses to hear these doctrines from the mouths of alleged criminals. He claimed full support of Browder's speaking for the John Reed Society among the alumni, which is ridiculous. And all the while he was claiming suppression of Communist or Socialist doctrine by the University, he interspersed glowing pictures of the Socialist State, and even went so far as to hold out alluring promises of $5,000 a year to its members...
...also led to fear that the whole protest meeting was a publicity stunt, in view of the anonymous offer of a hall for Browder to the John Reed Society. Their refusal to consider the University's side of the question, their railroading of their resolution, their complete denial of the floor to the opposition made the whole meeting a farce and a burlesque of the democracy for which they claim to fight. Signed, George F. Snell '41, A. R. Cowper, Dwight D. Taylor, Jr. '41, John Van Landingham '41, Alfred E. Gras '41, Dana Stockbridge, Keith R. Symon, Francis George...