Word: davises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"We intend to sit in jail until we rot before we will declare that we are traitors," he said. "You can't kill ideas with prison cells any more than you can with guns." Davis has served five years in federal prison for conviction under the Smith Act.
Mark DeWolfe Howe '28, professor of Law and member of the Forum panel, told the Sanders Theatre audience that "I share Mr. Davis' low view of the McCarran Act."
Howe also questioned Davis' assertion that Communists should enjoy the same legal status as all American political organizations.
In rebuttal, Davis declared that Communists work "first and foremost for the national interest of the country." He later added that peace depends on the continued unity of the world Communist movement; "There is something we call international solidarity."
Robert G. McCloskey, professor of Government and third member of the panel, also attacked the McCarran Act, calling it "unwise" and "bad public policy." He disagreed, however, with Davis' contention that internal security laws are violations of the Constitution.