Word: jenner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maurice Halperin, 47, associate professor in Boston University's department of Latin American studies and a wartime OSS man, testified before Senator William Jenner in Boston. Though he insisted that he had not at any time committed espionage, he refused to say whether he had ever been a member of Elizabeth Bentley's spy ring or whether he had ever known Alger Hiss, William Remington or John Abt. Professor Halperin did say: "At no time and in no way whatsoever have I tried to influence the political, philosophical or social thinking of my students...
...more deeply disturbed by the timidity and apathy prevalent in the student community. This timidity has been well-reflected in the refusal of the Student Council to assume the leadership in uniting student organizations for possible common action in the event of flagrant unfairness by the Jenner Committee. At its Monday meeting the Council overwhelmingly refused even to send a representative to the organizational meeting of the CUSC. The overzealous direction this meeting subsequently took in no way excuses the original inaction. If the Council will not take the lead in the sphere of Academic Freedom, it is only natural...
...calling of students to testify points even more emphatically at the harm these hearings will do to American education. It is obvious that the Committee knows no crime the Lubell brothers have committed; if it did, they would be testifying before a genuine court of law, not Jenner's selfstyled jury. Instead, they probably engaged in leftist activities. Perhaps, they were stupid; perhaps, they joined some organizations with flashy liberal labels without considering their aims. They were, however, undergraduates whose emotions may have been stronger than their young intellects. In no way that we can see, does Jenner...
...both Jenner and Velde have limited their education probes to professors. As Jenner stated yesterday, a vast majority of them are loyal beyond question. Most of those with any red tinge at all were members of the Communist Party a long time ago. Now, they are in a position to tell the committee that it was youth and inexperience which led them to join. They've grown up, enough to put their mistakes behind them. Because of the hearings, these men will undoubtedly get the cold shoulder from some people, but their careers are not necessarily ruined...
...will be different with two of the witnesses who appear before the committee today. They are not professors and Jenner's group is not calling them to testify about things that happened over fifteen years ago. They are students here at the Law School, who must appear in open hearings before the press and the public to talk probably about their undergraduate activities at Cornell. Their presence at the hearings is enough to cripple if not completely end their ambitions as lawyers. If they speak freely, they will undoubtedly have to give the names of friends, who in turn will...