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...Conant's speech aroused considerable nation-wide controversy last spring and drew comment from prominent clerics, notably Boston's Archbishop Cushing...
...replying to Flynn's contention Conant remarked that he did not use the word "divisive." "As a matter of fact," he said, " I never use it because I'm never quite sure how to pronounce it. This was one of these phrases that was picked up and used in the newspapers in attempting to summarize the contents of my speech. . . It is in no way an antireligious speech. It was a speech for something; it was a speech for the American public school. It was a speech urging that the people who are running the American public school improve those...
...major part of Flynn's attack on Conant concerned the President's recent remarks on education in his report to the Overseers last month. In the report Conant said, "There are no known Communists on the Harvard staff and I do not believe that there are any disguised Communists either. But even if there were, the damage that would be done to the spirit of this academic community by an investigation aimed at finding a crypto-Communist would be far greater than any conceivable harm such a person might...
Flynn insists this statement "completely disqualifies Mr. Conant from holding so important a post abroad where the recognition of Communists and Communist objectives is absolutely almost the first need of an official in discharging his duties...
Joseph P. Dawson, representing the Baptists of the United States, devoted the bulk of his time to stating that Conant's position on parochial schools is "in harmony with the historic position of the Government" and is supported by the Baptists...