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...several Soviet writers who have disappeared, Daily Worker Columnist Howard Fast jumped up and cried: "I know what has happened to all the people who could not be here with us ... I wait myself to be arrested at any time." Fast seemed overly apprehensive. Even Leipzig-born Communist Gerhart Eisler, facing deportation, was at liberty and in attendance at the big meeting...
Your editorial says, in effect, that my statement on the Eisler case represents a change in policy from what was done in the case of the New Student. There has been no change in policy or point of view on my part or on the part of the Faculty Committee. It is this Committee, not the Dean, which decides these matters and the Committee has a clear record through its whole existence of protecting the freedom of Harvard student organizations. My statement expressed my personal point of view which I have hold ever since I was old enough to think...
...John Reed Club, a recognized undergraduate group, last month held a meeting at which Gerhart Eisler, against whom the Justice Department has been conducting deportation proceedings, spoke on "'The Marxist Theory of Social Change." At the urging of radio commentator Fulton Lewis, Jr., a number of alumni and others wrote the College, protesting against Eisler's being permitted to speak on Harvard property...
...from an open communist which is half so great as the danger from those who would destroy freedom in the name of freedom. These decadent descendants of Jefferson and Lincoln reveal their lack of faith in American ideals and in Americans. If Harvard students can be corrupted by an Eisler, Harvard College had better shut down as an educational institution...
...Eisler, who is being held by the government pending settlement of deportation proceedings against him, has been appointed a professor of political science at the University of Leipzig...