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...Hans Freistadt, a student and part-time teacher at the University of North Carolina, admitted to a Congressional committee in May, 1949, that he was a member of the Communist Party...
Lilienthal was trying to explain to the Joint Atomic Energy Committee why AEC had granted a $1,600 fellowship to Hans Freistadt, a University of North Carolina student and an avowed Communist (TIME, May 23). He had an uneasy time of it. And when the Joint Committee was through with him, a Senate subcommittee considering the AEC appropriation seized hapless Chairman Lilienthal and put him on a grill...
Then on May 12, Congressman W. Sterling Cole of New York charged that Freistadt was a Communist. Called before a congressional committee, Freistadt admitted the charge. The Atomic Energy Commission explained that there was no "loyalty check" of fellowship applicants unless restricted data were involved...
...Freistadt had been recommended by Professor R. R. Wright of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and Professors Nathan Rosen and W. A. Bowers of the University of North Carolina...
...Tuesday, May 24, the University of North Carolina removed Freistadt from his part-time teaching job. Comptroller W. D. Carmichael. Jr. told the U.N.C. trustees, "We frankly don't want Communists on this campus any more than you do. If we can't keep the Communists out, you had better get rid of us and get someone who can keep them...