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...Conant had explained to the Foreign Relations Committee, which approved him 15 to 0 on Wednesday, that he made his speech because of his prior knowledge of the atomic bomb...
...Conant was questioned extensively on the issue of Communists here, in the light of testimony against him that he was soft on Communism. He told the committee that there were no members of the Communist Party openly or disguised on the faculty here...
...reply, Conant flatly asserted that in his opinion Shapley was not a Communist. "I have known him for a long time," he added. "Anybody can be a hidden Communist, as was brought out here, but I do not regard...
...general, Conant said he would not appoint a Communist to any University position but that it would take "institution of a police state" to find a "truly hidden Communist," in a university. He also said that he did not think professors on permanent tenure at a university should be fired for joining organizations which are branded Communist fronts...
Asked by Senator Fulbright why Shapley would join "so many of these organizations," Conant said that he wished to answer in an "impersonal" way and not talk about Shapley "whom I do not want to discuss...