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...petition, announced last Sunday Mark DeWolfe Howe '28,professor of Law, urges all members of the House to vote against the contempt citations of the three social Chicagoans subpoenaed in a recent investigation. HUAC, the letter said, had taken action contrary to the tenets of its characters, and had abused its legitimate powers "to no apparent legitimate legislative purpose...
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...Velde Committee began to seek out and identify Communists in education, supposedly as a prelude to proposing new internal security legislation. On February 25, the committee questioned Robert Gorham Davis '29, professor of English at Smith and teacher at Harvard from 1933 to 1943. Davis gave the HUAC he names of ten former and one present Harvard Faculty members who and been in a CP cell with him before the second World War. Wendell Furry was the one man still at Harvard named by Davis...
...January, 1953, a month before Furry's appearance before the HUAC, Arthur Sutherland, professor of Law, and Zechariah Chafee, Jr., University Professor and a respected civil libertarian, issued a statement intended to clear up ambivalent aspects of the fifth amendment. In sum, they argued that it was "ill-advised" for witnesses to withhold testimony on grounds of self-incrimination in court or before legislative investigation committees. The professors felt the citizen "is neither morally nor legally justified in attempting political protest by standing silent when obligated to speak." Also ruled out as a motive for silence was a "sense...
...congressional committees, although their long, careful explanation made clear several reasons for using the fifth amendment, and colleges that were floundering in a slough of uncertainty eagerly embraced the statement as an answer to their confusion. In January, Rutgers fired two professors who had taken the fifth before the HUAC. The Sutherland-Chafee "doctrine" was used as justification...