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Though the debate over Viet Nam had diminished by quite a few decibels, Vice President Hubert Humphrey's voice still rang out loud and clear in defense of the American stand. In a speech before Washington's National Press Club, Humphrey observed that "the war in Viet Nam is far more than Neville Chamberlain's 'quarrel in a remote country among people of whom we know nothing' "-an allusion to the British Prime Minister's celebrated remark about Hitler's planned invasion of Czechoslovakia...
...recent refusal of the DuBois Club to register as a communist-front organization has brought to public attention once again the unnecessary and unjust presence of the Subversive Activities Control Act. Passed in 1950 over President Truman's veto as the first section of the McCarran Act, the law helped spawn the McCarthy era. After that first blazing notoriety, it has proceeded through its numerous litigations in relative quiet; but the law is far from dead...
William S. Barus '67, temporary chairman, explained that the club is being formed to protest Attorney General Nicholas DeB. Katzenbach's demand that the national DuBois Club register as a Communist-front organization. "The DuBois Club must not be the first of a string of dissent organizations to dissolve simply at the mention of the McCarran Act" Barus said...
Elliot Kenin, a local folksinger and member of the present Cambridge DuBois Club, explained that the DuBois program differs from that of S.D.S. by stressing community organization and off-campus civil rights projects. "S.D.S. assumes that the student intellectual is the moving force in social change," Kenin said "We of the DuBois clubs put more faith in the 'common...
...club gains University recognition, it plans a joint conference with S.D.S. and local civil liberties groups to discuss the McCarran Act, the 1950 law which requires Communist-front organizations to register with the Subversiva Activities Control Board...