Word: browders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CRIMSON editorial lumps Prof. Lattimore with such figures as Gerhard Eisler, Earl Browder, and Gerald L. K. smith. Yet Lattimore is at most a moderate liberal, as borne out by his address. He does not even support , as I believe a good many Harvard students do, the recognition of Red China as the de facto regime of that nation. Yet because of the vicious and totally false picture of his views presented by the American McCarthyism, a picture apparently accepted to some degree by the Crimeds, he is presented as a radical and unorthodox figure...
...issue yesterday reference is made to may "refusing permission," in 1939, "to the now defunct John Reed Society to sponsor a lecture by Earl Browder in New Lecture Hall." The decision in that case, confirmed by the Corporation, had nothing to do with Browder's opinions. It was based solely on the fact that he had just been indicted for a crime and that his trial was pending. The question was, in fact, one of propriety or "taste" in giving a man whose trial was pending a chance to use Harvard as a sounding board to plead his cause. Under...
...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...
...Corporation had reached its final decision by Monday night. The next morning, the headlines claimed, "Corporation Withholds its Permission for Browder Speech." Again the Reed Society countered with a move calculated to draw mass support. A protest meeting was called for Wednesday night, and Corliss Lamont '24, a noted socialist, was listed as a speaker. Tempers flared as Lamont compared Harvard to a "one horse mid-western college." Trotskyite Richard Pitts, President of the Harvard Socialist League, heckled the speaker. The meeting continued in confusion, with Lamont's defense of socialism drawing hisses from the audience...
Although the Browder affair left its scars on the University, a new, clearer policy toward speakers was evolving. By 1948, the invitation of Gerhart Eisler by the Harvard Young Democrats could pass almost without notice. The Democrat Club, unable to get Paul Robeson who was out campaigning for Henry Wallace, sponsored Eisler's speech here on the evening of April 26. Two students, dressed as Cossacks, interrupted Eisler's speech and strode down to the front of the auditorium. Both were ejected, as the crowd, encouraged by the performance, jeered Eisler and created general disorder...