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...requesting an investigation by the Harvard Student Council, Merwin K. Hart, Jr.'40 and Sidney Q. Curtiss '40 have charged the ambulance committee with the collection of money under false pretences. They declare that although the money was collected to aid the wounded in Spain, it was used to foster Communism in what they consider a Communist mass demonstration. They interpret a letter to the CRIMSON by John L. Davidson '38, a member of the undergraduate committee engaged in collecting the funds, as official assurance that the ambulance would not be used for such a purpose. The fact that...
...agree with Messrs. Hart and Curtiss that Mr. Davidson's letter to and the Medical Bureau, as Harvard against participation in the parade...
...committee's report adopted by the Council at its meeting last night, was read after the adjournment of the meeting by the chairman, Wiley E. Mayne '38, to Sidney Q. Curtiss '40 and Merwin K. Hart, Jr. '40, who preferred the charges, Less than ten minutes later they presented the CRIMSON with a tyned communication. This statement declared that "the members of the committee (the Student Council Committee) were appointed by a man who was a member of the very organization that raised the money for the ambulance . . . At any rate, he nominated a committee to investigate his own activities...
...CRIMSON informed Francis Keppel '38, President of the Student Council, of this communication. Keppel remarked that although Curtiss and Hart did not mention his name directly in their letter, it was obvious that the letter was directed at him. Saying that the communication presented two questions: first, his connection with the ambulance drive last Spring, and second, the implication that he influenced the Council's decision, he went...
...opposed to the use of their money for the purpose of advocating publicly class war and murder, that we stand by our original charges, and that we will contine to fight those who exploit the name of Harvard for their own ends. Merwin K. Bart '40 Sidney Q. Curtiss...