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...trouble was not that there were students involved, Arthur Maass, Frank G. Thompson Professor of Government and later head of the Faculty's conservative caucus, explained. Professors were upset because SFAC was not properly integrated into the structure...
...Artaur Maass, Thomas Professor of Government, said there were many other alternatives, and that "the University must be protected from partisan political activities...
...official action to support students in these activities will be viewed as partisan politics, opposing the Republican administration." Maass said, "Let us not in meeting student demands of May 1969 weaken the capacity of Harvard to teach future generations of students in a free society...
...most vivid passages of Maass's book, the railroad workers finally rebel. In September 1944, the nation's trains simply grind to a halt. But the gesture is both too late and too early. An airborne invasion is stopped at Arnhem, and Allied forces drive past The Netherlands into Germany. Crippled by their lack of transportation, the Dutch freeze and starve. In January 1945, the food ration is down to 500 calories a day; families eat tulip bulbs and "roof rabbit" -cats and dogs. Bread on the black market is $27 a loaf. Abandoned houses are torn...
...Barricades are rarely built by bureaucrats," writes Author Maass in explanation of the slow-kindling Dutch resistance. But sometimes circumstances drive them to that point, and Maass's book-orderly and stolid as the people he writes about-derives its fascination from showing it happen...