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Featuring a "Turkey drive" and a speech by Earl Browder, Lampy will celebrate Thanksgiving today in protest against Governor Saltonstall's refusal to fall into line with President Roosevelt on the turkey day issue...
Harvard's supreme command, the Corporation, has acted to sustain the Browder ban, and its decision must be branded as unwise to the point of being inconsistent with the University's best interests. It is all very well to project an investigation which will explore the general question of the use of Harvard buildings by non-official organizations. But there are no logical grounds, dreamed or spoken, for prefacing this investigation by a move such as the refusal to grant to the Communist leader the right to appear here...
...mere fact that the Corporation will conduct its enquiry means that at the present time no criteria for the use of halls exist. If this is so, however, Browder has been excluded without reason. Certainly the Corporation fails to specify any reason--unless by inference it is resting its case on the weak excuse previously advanced by Mr. Greene. In the absence of any verbal justification of the action, the suspicion grows that Browder is a persona non grata to Harvard authorities for more reasons than his passport peccadilloes...
...avoidance of publicity is the ultimate aim of the Corporation, it has acted with a considerable lack of canniness at this juncture. If Browder had spoken to Harvard students as a thrice convicted murderer, the University would not have received more publicity than it is attracting at the present time. The Liberals of the nations are on the war-path, and it is hard to see how the Corporation could have ignored this...
...Trotskyites disapprove most vigorously of Mr. Browder's Stalinism and we have been the victims of much abuse on his part. But this will never prevent us from demanding free speech for any working-class organization, however corrupt or degenerated it may be. We think Mr. Greene made a dangerous generalization when he affirmed his own taste to be the taste of the Harvard students. The subsequent outcry must have certainly raised some doubts in Mr. Greene's mind. And the collective action of the student body through its various organizations would certainly help Mr. Greene clear his mind...