Word: lamonts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flustered McCarthy cited Lamont for contempt of Congress, and he was later indicted. The Senator had not expected this challenge, for the Lamont he had been grilling was the indifferent Lamont, who had written two years earlier, in connection with charges of Communism, "I was getting very bored with it all. I swore to myself that I was not going to spend the rest of my life denying silly stories that I was a Communist. Such accusations have always seemed so fantastic that I tended to laugh them off, to deny them intermittently, or to take refuge in the well...
...Senator had not reckoned with Lamont's rebellious attitude, which had roots deep in his boyhood...
after graduating, Lamont was co-author in 1936 of an article intended for he Alumni Bulletin, listing and discussing radicals who had attended the College. "Harvard long ago learned," hem wrote, "that the rebels and heretics of today are the leaders accepted by tomorrow. The stamp of the New England Puritan aristocracy is all over it--its economic conservatism along with its tolerance of dissent." The Bulletin refused to print his article, fearing it would prevent conservative alumni from contributing to the Tercentenary Fund. But later it appeared in the Advocate and in the Nation...
Twice during the Thirties Lamont visited Soviet Russia. Among the books he has written is one entitled: You Might Like socialism. "I dedicated this volume to my friends of the Harvard Class of 1924," Lamont says, "but have yet to hear that I made any converts among them." But he sees his own brand of socialism as being widely different from Communism. In fact, he has published a pamphlet listing 53 reasons "Why I am not a Communist." His own program Lamont describes as "socialism in economics, democracy in politics, and Humanism in philosophy." Elected as a Director...
...Although Lamont usually terms himself an "independent radical, "Senator McCarthy would not withdraw the charge of "Communist." In the investigation which ultimately led to Lamont's indictment, the Senator used as evidence against him the Army's reference in a so-called "Communist" instruction manual to Lamont's book, The Peoples of the Soviet Union. The condemned military manual, he reasoned, infected Lamont vicariously. the latter declined to testify on the ground that McCarthy had no authority as a Senator to question a private author's right to freedom of the press...