Word: fronte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wednesday story headlined "Harvard; U. S. Bulwark and Red Target," Griffin first extolled the University's traditional "heavy contribution to patriotic Americanism," but then singled out "idealistic intellectuals" as the "prize prey of Communist front organizations...
Affiliations of Harvard professors with "Communist front" movements has caused serious concern in Washington, Griffin says. He claims that University teachers and graduates have "influenced high government policy since the beginning of the New Deal...
Griffin numbered "about two dozen Harvard teachers or almost 5 percent of the permanent faculty" as being frequent supporters of Communist front movements. "Harvard regularly leads other universities in the number of professors endorsing petitions in sympathy with Communist party policy...
cussion of Harlow Shapley, director of the University Observatory, whom he describes as "one of the most distinguished (persons) ever enlisted in a Communist front cause." Griffin charged Shapley of having connections with over a dozen "front groups...
Griffin attributes his claims of faculty leftist front affiliations to the National Council for American Education, a New York group which recently released a report intitled "Red-ucators at Harvard." The report asserted that 76 members of the faculty have or have had 366 affiliations with 124 Communist front groups...