Word: communiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...methods and the reasoning of the attacks on Communism in this country, and especially on teaching, have been both crude and subtle. The crude approach, as exemplified by such groups as the Barnes Bill partisans, attempts to legislate Communist teachers out of existence. Yet rarely in attempts of this sort have Communists been the real losers; the real injury caused by these shotgun tactics has been to liberals and other non-Communists. The subtle method argues that no man who follows a dictatorial dogma and strict party organization is capable of objective teaching. Yet the difficulties of defining an ideology...
...serious dangers in the "anti-Communist crusade" is its potential effect on teaching. This cannot be measured in dismissals alone, for the young men blackballed by college administrations under pressure will be the greatest loss to education. There may also be teachers in all ranks who will choose to leave their universities, if not teaching itself, because of injustices done those of their colleagues attacked or dismissed...
Then on May 12, Congressman W. Sterling Cole of New York charged that Freistadt was a Communist. Called before a congressional committee, Freistadt admitted the charge. The Atomic Energy Commission explained that there was no "loyalty check" of fellowship applicants unless restricted data were involved...
...meeting, unknown to University officials, Herbert Phillips, the fired faculty member of the University of Washington and an avowed Communist, spoke to the group...
...Young Democrats whipped out a counter-leaflet which said: "This was never a religious issue until the Communists and Y.P.A. made it such. The issue on our campus is that Y.P.A., the Communist Party, and their allies are the ones who are really trying to dictate to the Board of Higher Education...