Word: civilizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Student sentiment also favors anti-war profits legislation, extension of the Good Neighbor Policy boycotting Japan, and legislation to protect civil liberties, the poll revealed...
...strongly worded statement attacking the University for not allowing Earl Browder to speak in the New Lecture Hall under the auspices of the John Reed Society was issued by the Civil Liberties Committee of Massachusetts yesterday...
Simultaneously, the American Civil Liberties Union, in a letter to President Conant, said that "The barring of Earl Browder from speaking at Harvard teaches a deplorable lesson in democracy, a lesson unworthy of Harvard's heritage or American tradition...
...indicted on a technical passport charge, Mr. Greene suggested that the meeting be abandoned, "lest questions of propriety be raised." The Administration has every right to make such suggestions. However, the John Reed Society has been informed that the indictment, and it is only an indictment, imposes no civil disability on Mr. Browder, and it feels that the question of "propriety" ought not to keep the students from hearing what he has to say. When permission was again requested for the use of New Lecture Hall, Mr. Greene went beyond mere suggestion and definitely refused. The refusal is an invasion...
This country is in grave danger of being involved in the European war. The mounting hysteria has already increased the danger of involvement and has threatened to eclipse the fundamental civil liberties of the American people. In refusing us our right to hear a speaker of our choice, the Administration can only contribute to this undemocratic hysteria. In taking such a step the Administration can only align itself with those who, according to a recent Crimson editorial, "are trying to build for the United States a super-highway straight to Armageddon...