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Fast was not the only speaker banned at C.C.N.Y. On December 9, Theobald said "no" to a speech by Arnold Johnson, legislative representative of the Communist Party, because Johnson's party appeared on Attorney-General Clark's list of subversive organizations. The Student-Faculty Committee on Student Organizations upheld the ban. It said Johnson's speech would be "detrimental to the college," though it stated that Johnson could speak to any one group in a closed meeting...
...days later, C.C.N.Y. violated its own rule, perhaps unconsciously. It permitted an official of the American Youth for Democracy to give a speech. The A.Y.D., like the Communist Party, is on the Attorney-General's "subversive" list...
Canwell imported the same group of witnesses that had been used at almost all other investigations of un-American activities. These witnesses included J. B. Matthews, former investigator for the Dies Committee, a Hearst journalist and the list of "reformed Communists" such as Benjamin Gitlow and George Hewitt. During the course of the committee hearings not only were members of the Washington faculty accused but such other figures as J. Robert Oppenheimer of the Princeton Institute of advanced study, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38, of Harvard, and General Dwight D. Eisenhower, were mentioned as men who "fronted" for Communists...
...present the three fired professors have appealed their cases to the American Association of University Professors. If their appeals are successful, the University must rehire them or become a "censured administration." Top men, as a rule, do not accept positions in institutions on this censured list...
Democratic leaders curtailed the administration's program for this session of Congress yesterday by stripping the hotly contested health insurance and civil tights proposals off the "must" list. At the same time, Senate Majority Leader Scott Lucas indicated he expects no Senate action this session on President Truman's $4,000,000,000 tax boost plan, the new Brannan farm plan, or the foreign arms program...