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...fulfilled the membership list rule, they have yet to find even one member of the faculty willing to act as their adviser. This is not surprising, considering the strength of McCarthyism and allied dogmas; we can hardly condemn those faculty members who, though they may wish to sponsor the HYP Club, do not care to give Red-hunters another opportunity to attack them. Yet their refusals may mean the end of the Young Progressives as a recognized organization...
...Dean Watson has temporized; he has not disbanded the YPs, but he has not tried to help them find an adviser either. Instead, he has just left them teetering. This precarious status has limited the HYP's activities considerably, since its members know that at any time they may have to tear their posters off University billboards, abandon plans involving the use of Harvard buildings, and retire to their rooms for further meetings...
Spokesmen from the Liberal Union and the World Federalists, who also testified at yesterday's hearing, joined with the JRC and HYP in objecting to the "bureaucratic" demands of the rules regarding the various forms and reports required of organizations...
...Columnists in recent weeks have warned that the Communist Party, realizing its unpopularity today, is returning to the popular front notion which gained for its such important victories as the acquisition of atomic secrets and the fall of Eastern Europe. Let us remember that the object of JRC and HYP participation in distributing these petitions is to discredit our armed forces and to ease communist infiltration into them if possible. the ultimate purpose: aid to the steady tide of Soviet expansionism. I do not care to aid or give comfort to anyone who keeps such an end foremost...
Bailey and Bluestone pointed out that the list of subversive organizations on the pledge does not include any organizations at Harvard at the present time. "The list has doubled since March of '47, though," Bluestone said, and "who knows, the HYP and the Liberal Union may be next...