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University authorities should ask any student who insists on joining the Harvard Lawyer's Guild to go elsewhere, Samuel P. Sears '17 stated in a reply letter to Dean Griswold yesterday. Griswold had defended the administration's views on giving student organizations complete freedom in answer to Sears' attacks on the Guild Sunday...
Griswold had said that the local activities of the group did "not warrant" their suppression, and the National Lawyer's Guild, of which the Law School group is a branch, disclaimed any association with Communist organizations or fronts. Griswold pointed out that no court had judged the group...
...reply, Sears said that the findings of the House Un-American Activities Committee, which called the National Guild the "foremost bulwark of the Communist party in this country," were "made in good faith and based on reliable information...
...because that Committee, without notice or hearing, has issued a report attacking the national organization with which the student group is affiliated. The United States Attorney General, with the resources of the Federal Bureau of Investigation at his disposal, has not seen fit to list the National Lawyer's Guild as a subversive organization...
...basis of our knowledge of the activities of the local group, and in the absence of any official action under the McCarran Act against the National Lawyer's Guild itself, we have felt that it would be an improper interference with the legitimate freedom of our students to take any action towards suppressing this group at the Law School. Erwin N. Griswold Dean, Harvard Law School