Word: hyrc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fisher was charged with bringing partisan politics into the NSA, with acting as an HYRC representative rather than a Harvard representative...
Specifically, Fisher was criticized for apparently acting for the HYRC on the issue of a proposed NSA Displaced Persons project...
...said his subsequent votes against Harvard participation in the DP project had a "50-50" motivation. First, he believed that the HYRC Planning Committee opposed the plan. Second, he believed that "older people in the NSA"--such as Lawrence Jaffa 2Dv and Charles Mahoney of Boston University--wanted to take another project, the Tri-Nations Tour, out of the hands of the Smith College delegation. Fisher said these people felt the Smith group was dominated by communist sympathizers...
Fisher said that he was not acting as a Harvard delegate, but purely as a member of the HYRC when he wrote the report. Students for Democratic Action and the Young Progressives of America with similar reports on NSA. he said...
...recent, I wish to deny, categorically, membership in the League for Reaction, and participation in any sort of HYRC "cloak and dagger" activity for which the various extraordinary schemes are suggested...