Word: griffin
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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...
Many loyal alumni are also alarmed over the ties of Harvard professors, Griffin maintains, because of suspicious that undergraduates are being exposed to "too much liberalism...
...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...
...Harvard intellectuals who go along with the Communists have "one common altruistic dream," adds Griffin, namely that "they all share the vision of a one world utopia...