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...College Observatory, last night made an off-the-record attack on the Thomas Un-American Activities Committee in a speech sponsored by the American Association of Scientific Workers and the Association of Cambridge Scientists. After the speech, a petition strongly attaching the Committee's action in the Condon case was circulated...
Weakest Link. Dr. Condon answered sharply: "If I am the weak link in atomic security, then the nation need have no fear." He said that he had asked Thomas for a hearing last summer on the charges but had had no reply. Promptly the Commerce Department announced that only six days before the Thomas report was issued the departmental loyalty board had held, unanimously, that "no reasonable grounds exist for believing Dr. Condon is disloyal...
Thomas backed away a trifle. The committee had no evidence that Dr. Condon was "disloyal," he admitted, just that he had been "indiscreet." But, he added, he could not understand "how the loyalty board could have cleared Dr. Condon in view of the evidence." From his bed in Walter Reed Hospital, where he is recuperating from an attack of gastrointestinal hemorrhages, he issued a subpoena for the board's files. Secretary of Commerce Harriman refused to honor the subpoena, on the ground that it would be unfair to those who had testified in confidence, and would prejudice future loyalty...
...scientists in the Government, already weary of being investigated, checked and rechecked, the Condon case seemed close to the last straw. The staid American Physical Society, of which Condon is a former president, warned that actions like these "will make difficult the collaboration between scientists and the Government on which so much of our future depends." Condon himself asked Senator Bourke Hickenlooper's Joint Atomic Energy Committee to hold its own investigation in the hope of "restoring conditions in which men of intelligence . . . will not be constantly harassed and harried by irresponsible attacks...
...cited the recent investigation of Edward U. Condon, head of the government Bureau of Standards, as being typical of "organized persecution...