Word: communistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very well to project an investigation which will explore the general question of the use of Harvard buildings by non-official organizations. But there are no logical grounds, dreamed or spoken, for prefacing this investigation by a move such as the refusal to grant to the Communist leader the right to appear here...
...announcement the Corporation reaffirmed its policy "of permitting all views to be presented at meetings of students held in Harvard buildings," and went on to say that the John Reed Society could have "another member of the Communist Party speak as soon as they desired...
...letters to the CRIMSON two opponents of the Communist Party supported the John Reed Society's request to get University sanction. Granville Hicks, former Communist leader who broke with the party over war policies this fall, defended Browder's right to speak despite his pending trial...
...happens, of course, Mr. Greene's reason for his action is a pitifully puny-one. No one questions Browder's authority as a Communist because of this comparatively innocuous run-in with the law. No one seems to take Mr. Greene's objection seriously besides himself; it is uniformly ignored by his critics, who do not bother even to answer it. The Council on Academic Freedom flips it off by stating truly if tritely that "a man is presumed to be innocent until proven guilty in a court...
...Such a reversal is dictated not only by the poorness of Mr. Greene's argument but also by the expediency of calling off the dogs. A thousand years of logical argumentation would fail to convince many people that Harvard--by Mr. Greene's action--is not squelching the Communist view of affairs. They will be mollified only by a reissuance of Browder's speaking permit. Indeed, if the Corporation persists in the course chosen thus far, there may be ground to suspect that some of the glibly-flung accusations are justified...