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Congressional committee approval of President Conant's appointment as German High commissioner seemed almost assured yesterday after Conant testified for the first time...
...endorse retiring President Conant's recent avowal of the importance of freedom of opinion in the nation's universities...
John T. Flynn, writer-economist and critic of the past Democratic administrations, challenged President Conant's appointment as German High Commissioner yesterday before a closed hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
Senate majority leader Robert A. Taft remarked that Flynn "made a good case" against the selection. He added, however, that the committee, in all probability would approve Conant's nomination...
Committee chairman Alexander Wiley (R.-Wis.) reported that Flynn based his opposition on five issues: Conant's alleged support of a "dismantle German industry" plan, his advocacy of a radical party in 1943, laxity toward possible subversives at Harvard, probable poor reception of Conant in Germany, and Conant's attack on private schools as "divisive...