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Harvard was big news last weekend in Washington and Baltimore newspapers. They carried copy to the effect that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of the nation's oldest university had seen fit to dispatch a note to the Navy objecting to the "informer clause" of the NROTC loyalty certificate...
Americans for Democratic Action, in a letter to Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, has accused the Navy of imitating "Communist totalitarian policies and devices" in requiring NROTC students to sign a 'stool pigeon" loyalty certificate, it was learned last night. The letter was partially initiated by a Liberal Union appeal to the ADA for national action on the "informer clause" in the oath administered to the Harvard Naval Science students...
Meanwhile the John Reed Club drew up a resolution stating their position on the NROTC oath at a meeting in Phillips Bricks House yesterday. President Donald M. Long '51 announced. The statement of policy denounced the "dangerous departure from the traditional doctrine of presumption of innocence until guilt is proven. . . for clearly defined crimes...
...NROTC students were required this year by order of Matthews to sing a certificate stating their loyalty to the United States. Included in the paper was the "informer" or "stool-pigeon" clause, which requires the student to name all persons he has ever seen at meetings of certain allergy subversive organization...
Representatives of nine University organizations agreed Saturday on a tentative draft of a letter to President Conant objecting to the administration of the Navy's loyalty oath to NROTC students at Harvard...