Word: condonement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even this fraternity was not proof against evil and the suspicion of evil. Last week a curious crack in the fraternity of liberal scientists came to light with the publication of an attack upon Oppenheimer made in 1949 by Dr. Edward U. Condon, then head of the National Bureau of Standards. Condon himself was attacked as a security risk and is revered as a martyr by those who consider all security investigations of scientists as "witch hunts." On June 7, 1949, Oppenheimer testified at a secret session of the House Un-American Activities Committee investigating Dr. Bernard Peters, a fellow...
Questions from this testimony appeared soon thereafter in the Rochester Times-Union. It brought an extraordinary reaction from Dr. Condon. From Echo Lake Lodge, Colo., Condon wrote his wife in Washington. He began by saying: "I want you to get Martin and Izzy over to the house and let them read this letter. Tell them I will not pass the data on to any other radio or news person. The story that is developing will be one of the biggest of the year if what I suspect is correct...
...Condon's news, obviously intended to be got into print: because Oppenheimer had testified against a man he thought had been a Communist. he must be losing his mind. Wrote Condon: "I understand that Oppie has been in a very high state of nervous tension in the last few weeks. People from Princeton say that he seems to be in a great state of strain for fear he himself will be attacked. Of course he knows that he has so much of a record of leftist activities ... It appears that he is trying to buy personal immunity from attack...
Four days later, Condon wrote Oppenheimer. Said he, in part: "One is tempted to feel that you are so foolish as to think you can buy immunity for yourself by turning informer. I hope that this is not true. You know very well that once these people decide to go into your own dossier and make it public that it will make the revelations that have been made so far look pretty tame...
Edward K. Blodnick of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Robert A. Bowman of New York City; Roger J. Bulger of Hollis, L. I.; Edward G. Condon of Long Beach, N. Y.; William F. Dennis of Queens, N. Y.; Edward M. Krinsky of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Richard J. Manning of Homestead, Pa.; Rollin F. Perry of Long Beach, N. Y.; Harry P. Sacks of Long Beach, N. Y.; Stanley H. Appel (Mgr.) of Dorchester, Mass...