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Last Friday, Senator McCarthy and his one and one-half man committee brought Wendell Furry in for his fourth public appearance since last March, and Leon Kamin for his second. Their testimony, and lack of it, even more vividly illustrates our previous view, expressed in six editorials over the last year, that an individual called before any congressional committee should speak fully and openly, and that a person who refuses to answer questions about Communist activities or affiliations, of himself or his confederates, is harming both himself and his country. This is especially important for a teacher, since in education...
Furry's and Kamin's performances were damaging in every important respect but one. They rid themselves of the Fifth Amendment, whose previous use had given the impression that they might be shielding themselves from prosecution for some crime. Both testified freely about themselves, but for reasons of conscience, refused to talk about others. Both were cited for contempt. In discarding their constitutional armor and gambling on a favorable decision by the courts, Furry and Kamin were at least assuming full responsibility for their moral decisions, instead of placing most of it on the Corporation. As long as they were...
Furry and Kamin are hoping are hoping the courts will hold that Congressional Committees cannot constitutionally ask them to name other people. They may also hope that McCarthy, like Brother Jenner last year in similar cases, will not bother to press contempt charges. If the two wish to risk their personal freedom for a principle, under our system of government they have a right...
...frustrated by Furry's refusals, will hunger all the more, giving support to the kind of sweeping accusation and newsprint-aimed question which the one and one-half have popularized. And American education, despite its accomplishments, will remain an open target for unscrupulous politicians. The method of Furry and Kamin, then, for all its justified hatred of McCarthy's methods, and honest loyalty towards friends, is actually giving ammunition to the very forces it seeks to halt...
Furry and Kamin should realize this, and give their information to the FBI or the Massachusetts Committee to Investigate Communism. In so doing, they would be following the advice of two other University teachers, both long-standing friends of civil liberties, Zachariah Chafee and Arthur Sutherland, Jr. In a letter to this paper last year, as relevant now as it was then, they gave men like Furry and Kamin this advice...