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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chambers read Georges Sorel's Reflections on Violence and was converted to an acceptance of the evil thing as a worthy means to a clear and simple end. In 1924, he joined the Communist Party in New York. For the next 14 years, as he admitted later, he lived a lie-a disloyal citizen plotting against his country...
...Communist Party Clubs at Harvard formally stated, "It is clear from Mr. Fisher's revelations that the Young Republicans are out to smash the NSA . . . If the NSA program on student needs, segregation, academic freedom and international student cooperation were to be carried out in full, then NSA would . . . conflict with those reactionary elements in government and university administrations which the HYRC champions...
...This clears up the question of guilt. Responsibility, however, is an other matter, and the fact that last spring's YRC leaders helped to get Fisher, as a Young Republican, into NSA, places some of the responsibility on the Club. This point is not so tenuous as it may seem. Fisher is conspicuously unsophisticated when it comes to politics--this is an other of the points that became clear last night--and the YRC must have known that in an important position, he might become subject to curious influences. Yet the YRC informed all its members that Fisher would...
...Part Good Fellowship. There was one point I wanted to clear up. "Why," I asked spinners in the plant canteen, "do you think America is doing this?" Answered Jan Missink, a wiry, blond fellow, seven members of whose family work for the company: "Americans really want to help us; they know that under the Russians we would be lost, as we were under the Germans." Said Berend Groote: "Yes, it is part self-interest and part sportief [good fellowship...
...Violinist Goldberg. When he walked quickly onstage to take a stiff stance before the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, the audience saw a small, smooth-haired and handsome man in his late 30s. Holding his fiddle high, he gave his listeners a powerful performance of the Brahms Violin Concerto, with clear round tones and steel-fingered doublestops, that brought the audience to its feet when it was over...