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Permission to sponsor a lecture by Earl Browder was "withheld" from the John Reed Society by the Corporation at its meeting yesterday until the problem of granting the use of halls was "further explored by a special committee of the Corporation meeting with members of the Faculties," the Corporation announced last night...
What moved Joe Stalin and his Earl Browder to doff their democratic whiskers was the Russo-German pact and the consequent reaction against the U. S. S. R., in which Franklin Roosevelt shared last week (see p. 15). The Browder speech last week was the first realistic thing which he and his party have done since the Stalin & Hitler marriage of convenience. But Browder and friends, free again to take up their old cries of international class war, down-with-capitalism, etc., were not in an altogether happy position. To portray Joseph Stalin's totalitarian regime as the flower...
Consequently, it must be reiterated that the question of free speech is not involved if facts are taken at their face value. Browder was granted permission to speak at Harvard on a certain date. Meanwhile, he was indicted on criminal charges of passport invasion; so his speaking permission was revoked. From this it should be clear that Browder, for the purposes of the case, had a dual personality: that of the Communist spokesman and that of the passport violator. He was excluded from a Harvard assembly in his second capacity only. If Mr. Greene was sincere--and the burden...
...happens, of course, Mr. Greene's reason for his action is a pitifully puny-one. No one questions Browder's authority as a Communist because of this comparatively innocuous run-in with the law. No one seems to take Mr. Greene's objection seriously besides himself; it is uniformly ignored by his critics, who do not bother even to answer it. The Council on Academic Freedom flips it off by stating truly if tritely that "a man is presumed to be innocent until proven guilty in a court...
...Greene's argument but also by the expediency of calling off the dogs. A thousand years of logical argumentation would fail to convince many people that Harvard--by Mr. Greene's action--is not squelching the Communist view of affairs. They will be mollified only by a reissuance of Browder's speaking permit. Indeed, if the Corporation persists in the course chosen thus far, there may be ground to suspect that some of the glibly-flung accusations are justified...