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...report of the University of Washington Faculty Committee says: "The manner of the respondent Gundlach in answering questions put to him on cross-examination and by members of the committee was frequently evasive and not responsive . . . [Asked] the direct question: 'Are you a member of the Communist Party?' Gundlach replied: 'No one can prove that I am and I cannot prove that I am not' . . . We [the committee] feel that he has been evasive on many matters...
...case of the six professors had begun when a committee of the Washington state legislature investigated the university. Summoned for questioning, Psychologist Ralph H. Gundlach, Philosophy Professor Herbert J. Phillips and Joseph Butterworth of the English department refused to say whether they were members of the party or not. Three more-E. Harold Eby and Garland O. Ethel of the English department and Anthropologist Melville Jacobs-said that they had been, but were no longer. President Raymond B. Allen and a faculty committee on tenure and academic freedom undertook to investigate further...
...faculty committee, Butterworth and Phillips finally admitted party membership. The committee decided that was not cause for dismissal. The committee also cleared the three who had admitted to onetime membership. But Professor-Gundlach, who still would not say yea or nay, was another matter entirely. The committee recommended he be dismissed for his very evasiveness...
...agreed. His own recommendation to the board of regents: concealed membership was dishonest. "A teacher may be ever so sincere in his belief in Communism, but can he at the same time be a sincere seeker after truth . . .? My answer ... is no." Last week, the board also answered no. Gundlach, Phillips, and Butterworth were fired. The other three were put on two-year probation...
...other discharged professors, Herbert J. Phillips and Joseph Butterworth, admitted Communist Party membership. Gundlach's position was "you can't prove I am and I can't prove...