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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan that the President best symbolized the nation's aspirations at the same time that he reflected the warmth of the human spirit. In an area in Manhattan's West Side slums, a group of public-spirited citizens (president: John D. Rockefeller III) had pulled together the resources of dozens of public and private agencies to plan a center for the performance and instruction of opera, music, dance and repertory theater. The President's car skirted a crowd of 12,000, pulled up behind a huge green-and-white-striped umbrella tent and a blue-draped speakers...
...emblazoned with commission members' names, to be placed at each entrance. Worse, Douglas was alarmed at a $150,000 appropriation for new carpeting to cover the $100,000 rubber tile flooring. The committee explained that Government girls kept slipping on the tiles (TIME, May 11), rounded up a group of supporters who were promptly labeled "carpet-backers." Countered Douglas in the Senate last week: How about the 600 office doors that would have to be removed and shaved down to allow free swinging above the carpets...
...addition, the Veritas group enjoys the cooperation of a small network of research bureaus, newspapers and magazines. Roosevelt serves as President and main financial supporter of The Alliance, Inc., a firm specializing in such publications as "Red Intrigue and Race Turmoil," "Color, Communism, and Common Sense," and "Manual for American Action"--the last written by Roosevelt himself. In addition, at least two New England newspapers--Manchester's Union-Leader and New Bedford's Standard-Times--appear especially sympathetic to Veritas publicity...
Basically, the Veritas group objects to the "liberal monopoly" at Harvard and elsewhere, which allows "subversives" to slip unnoticed into the Faculty, and which permits smug and "fuzzy-minded" liberalism to stand unchallenged within the academic community. Few deny the validity of their second criticism. Among most university faculties (and especially at Harvard) there is a certain devotion--often unquestioning--to Keynesian economics and the Democratic party, which, though hardly "subversive," shows an unhealthy onesidedness. Perhaps well-qualified and articulate spokesmen of the conservative position are hard to come by, but it is unfortunate that Harvard's faculty ranks...
Such tough-minded Communist speeches show part of what the Veritas group is worried about. Its members also recognize the following as major Communist tactics at the present time: nullification of the Smith Act and other anti-communist legislation, muzzling the FBI and congressional investigations, eliminations of Federal and State security programs, the "peace offensive," summit conferences, cultural exchanges, recognition of Red China, nuclear test bans, East-West trade, and humiliation of the West ("brainwashing" in Korea, Nixon's South American trip...