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...nobody had put the question of Communist professors any more plainly than New York University's Philosopher Sidney Hook. And Hook, a longtime student of Marxism, had found some plain answers, too. In this week's New York Times Magazine he wrote them down...
...disagreement with the decisions of any party organization . . . are grounds for expulsion." For detail, Hook quoted an official party organ (The Communist, May 1937): "Communist teachers must take advantage of their positions, without exposing themselves, to give their students . . . working-class education." They must be thoroughly grounded in "Marxism-Leninism . . . inject it into their teaching at the least risk of exposure and at the same time conduct struggles around the schools in a truly Bolshevik manner...
Last night's forum, which was to deal with the Social Sciences, turned into an argument weighing the relative values of scientific liberalism against Marxism...
Quick was Editor Shipler with an angry answer. "It is obvious to me that Birkhead is fronting for the Roman political hierarchy," he said. He flatly denied that he had ever knowingly sponsored any Communist front activity. Said he: "Many Protestants who are opposed to Marxism, as I am, have sponsored a particular conference or dinner in behalf of peace ... by some of the organizations listed by Birkhead. If any of the organizations are in fact Communist fronts, it should be remembered that what was sponsored was not the organization but a particular event in behalf of a worthy cause...
Almost 500- students elbowed into Emerson D and crowded outside its windows Monday night to hear German Communist Gerhart Eisler lecture on Marxism at a meeting conspicuously devoid of the heckling and jokes that accompanied Eisler's appearance here last April...