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When Gerhart Eisler spoke in the New Lecture Hall last April, there was a heckling element in the crowd which gave an annoying demonstration of contempt for the First Amendment. And when Gerhart Eisler spoke in Emerson D on Monday night, there was also a demonstration--a quiet and amiable demonstration of willingness to hear Marxist theories from a German Communist. There could be little doubt that the vast majority of Eisler's listeners disagreed emphatically with practically everything he said. Yet there were no outbursts of protest, no low-level practical jokes, no heckling...
...Gerhart Eisler, who is fighting deportation proceedings by the United States government, will make his second appearance on a Harvard lecture platform in eight months, when he speaks to an Emerson D audience at 7:30 p.m. tonight under the auspices of the newly formed John Reed Club...
...When Eisler last spoke here, late in April 1948, the expected outburst of trouble fizzled briefly and then settled into spasmodic heckling from the audience. Two students in cossack costumes provided the only incident of the evening. But they barely got to greet Eisler before they were ejected from the meeting...
...that time Eisler discussed the deportation proceedings which the American government had instituted against him. Those proceedings are still under way. Eisler, who wants to leave this country to become professor of Political Science at the University of Leipzig, is being kept in the United States until either the government is able to deport him or the proceedings are quashed...
...Eisler, recently appointed Professor of Political Science at the Leipzing University, was described last year as "America's number one Communist" by the Luce publications. Most of the activities of the new club will follow the pattern of the Eisler meeting...