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...author also unearthed new details on Conant, anti-Communism, and academic freedom...
...June, 1948, amid swirling pre-McCarthyite controversy over Communism in academia, Conant signed a document by the Educational Policies Commission of the National Education Association...
...Conant publicly defended the decision on the grounds that Communist teachers were a genuine threat to American society...
...Hershberg argues that new evidence, including transcripts of meetings of the Educational Policies Commission, shows that Conant's support for the ban on Communist teachers was "a pragmatic, expedient move that would put the educational establishment in a much better position to defend left-wing but non-communist teachers...
...separate incident, Conant played a crucial role in convincing Harvard law professor and civil liberties expert Zechariah Chafee that the Fifth Amendment should not be invoked by faculty members testifying before Congressional committees on Communism...