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...committee held its hearings on the appointment of February 2 and 3. During that time it heard two witnesses against confirmation, one for it, and Conant himself. Appearing against Conant were Mrs. Beatrice Brown, chairman of the Women's Committee for Clean Government of New York and John T. Flynn, Boston journalist and radio commentator. The one witness for confirmation was Joseph M. Dawson executive director of the Public Affairs Committee of the Baptists of the United States...
Listing her objections to the appointment, Mrs. Brown said, "As a prominent American educator, Mr. Conant was a founder of the National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools. This group lined up four-square with the National Education Association. One aim of this association is to control the thoughts of our children from primary grades up, to a concept of world government, entailing a breakdown of the national consciousness. This is socialism on a world scale, as envisioned by Nazis and Communists alike, only with a change of bossmen. Mrs. Conant has also been a member of the policy-making...
...Brown went on to day, Certainly it appears that Mr. Conant is soft-headed toward communism. Only a week ago he openly declared it would be better to have a crypto-Communist on the staff of Harvard University than to have distinguished United States Senators investigate communism at Harvard. We would like to know if Mr. Conant would also be willing to have a crypto-communist on the staff of the United States High Commission in Germany? . . . Well, there are some of the members on the staff of Harvard who have long, long lists of connections that...
...leave Mr. Marcantonio out for the present time. You are down here to appear against the nomination of the man whose name is a household word across the country for integrity, character and ability, professionally as an educator, and as a man . . . Don't link Marcantonio with James B. Conant . . . It strikes, me frankly, as unusually presumptious for an organization to come in here and protest the nomination of this outstanding American. I think he is far above his critics . . . I value the man so highly that I resent inferences that are being passed out about Mr. Conant. I think...
...Flynn, the second witness against Conant, told the committee that in Germany, "where the agents of every important State are gathered, and where all sorts of social philosophers are scheming for the soul of Germany . . . (America needs) . . . as our representative some stout-hearted pragmatic American who believes in the American system, and not an agreeable philosopher who is talking about making over the American system...