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February--Wendell Furry appears before a congressional committee for the first time. Testifying before the HUAC in Washington he refuses to answer questions, invoking the fifth amendment. The Harvard Corporation faces a crisis; what action should be taken regarding Furry...
March--The Corporation reviews the transcript of Furry's testimony before the Velde Committee (HUAC...
April--Furry voluntarily sends an affidavit to Chairman Velde explaining his political activity in the past two years (1951-53) and then appears for the second time before the HUAC in Washington to testify that he has not been a Communist since 1951. He invokes the fifth amendment in refusing to answer all other questions...
...wide speeches (the last on election eve in which he castigated Harvard Faculty members who supported Stevenson, particularly Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., '38, then associate professor of History, and Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Racroric and Oratory. After the Eisenhower landslide, former Communist Granville Hicks, in testimony before the HUAC, gave an eyewitness' evidence that a cell of the Communist Party had indeed flourished at Harvard during the thirties. And within a week, Committee Chairman Harold Velde announced that his committee would postpone its investigations of defense installations, munitions labs, and Hollywood hanky-panky in order to "get the Reds...
...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...