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Students did take the Cold War and the threat of communist expansion--brought home by the more immediate threat of the draft--seriously. But few, such as Monroe H. Freedman '52, now dean of Hofstra Law School and a member of the national board of the American Civil Liberties Union, did not accept the government's line on Korea. Freedman recalls disapproving of some of the Soviet Union's policies, both domestic and foreign, but he says he felt then and now that "the Cold War was a fraud and the threat of internal communism, which was the more serious...
...that others have grown or remained conservative. Alan R. Trustman '52, author of The Thomas Crown Affair, says that spending years as a lawyer and businessman dealing with "appallingly powerful" government officials and bureaucratic regulatory agencies converted him from "a campus radical" to a member of the 1964 Massachusetts Draft Goldwater committee. George S. Ames '52, now a bank investment officer, enlisted in the armed forces, served in Korea and later returned to active duty in Vietnam--where he reports he did not meet any Harvard graduates. Today, he wonders how Harvard can expect financial support from alumni...
Comprising nine sections with 173 articles, the draft of the new constitution, the Soviet Union's fourth, will be discussed in factories, collective farms, offices and schools all over the U.S.S.R. Possibly in a slightly altered form, but without substantive changes, the text will almost certainly be approved by the Supreme Soviet, the nation's rubber-stamp parliament, in time for the 60th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution next November...
...come back from Moscow convinced that the Russians had every intention of exploiting Europe's misery. Then in May, Will Clayton, his Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, reported a rapidly worsening situation. Immediately, Marshall had given George F. Kennan and his policy planning staff two weeks to draft a plan to save Europe. Under Secretary Dean Acheson, as well as Clayton, contributed heavily to the proposals that were boiled down into the 950-word speech. Now Marshall came to the meat...
Died. General Lewis Blaine Hershey, 83, director of the Selective Service (1941-70), who supervised the draft of 14.5 million Americans; in Angola, Ind. Hershey enlisted in the Indiana National Guard in 1911, went to France with an Army artillery unit in World War I and later became a member of the Army-Navy committee that laid the groundwork for the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940. A target of antiwar protesters during the Viet Nam War, he countered by calling them "enemies of the U.S." and urging draft boards to step up their induction. While instituting the draft...