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...somewhat disturbed at the naivete of the speakers tonight, except for Father Sexton, they don't seem to understand the nature of this sordid subject. Why don't they all come to Town Hall at 2 p.m. Sunday afternoon, where they can hear it discussed by Dr. Bella Dodd, Alfred Kohlberg, Victor Laskey, and J. B. Matthews...
...firsts with libel without actually opening himself to suit. But at one point he does slip badly. Late in the article he boldly announces, "There is an organized Communist movement at Harvard," using for evidence only the testimony of former FBI undercover agent Herb Philbrick and former Communist Bella Dodd that there was a cell of professors here during the 1930's and '40's. The earlier existence of cells is now recognized as a fact, but it would be difficult to prove a present organized movement...
...York City, according to Dr. Bella Dodd, onetime national committee member for the U.S. Communist Party, the Communist-led New York Teachers' Union alone had 1,000 members in 1939. John Lautner, a party organizer in New York State until 1950, said that at one time he had had as many as 500 Communist teachers assigned to him to be "processed into the underground...
...report sharply rejects the notion that a Communist teacher can keep Communism out of the classroom and just stick to his subject, quotes several impressive opinions in support of this point. "The Communist teacher . . . must not only make himself an agent of the class struggle," said Dr. Dodd (herself a teacher for twelve years at New York's Hunter College), "he must indoctrinate " other teachers . . . and he must see that their students are indoctrinated in the class struggle." Added Economist William Withers of Queens College: "The typical action of the Communist teacher is to become a popular person with...
...Bella Dodd, the former Hunter College political scientist who was once a member of the U.S. Communist Party's national committee, gave Senator Jenner's subcommittee plenty to consider. She repeated her old charge that in the '40s there were about 1,500 Communist teachers in the nation's schools, also insisted that Communists had even wormed their way into the offices of the New York State Department of Education and the New York City Board of Education. New York officials contradicted her. "I would say without reservation," wired Education Commissioner Lewis A. Wilson, "we have...