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...Young Progressives demanded yesterday that Harvard join with other universities to force the Navy either to abolish its loyalty pledge requirement for NROTC students or else to disband its college units...
...Bluestone, special student, member of the executive board of the Young Progressives, announced last night that the organization proposes three alternatives: First, that the University, under the guidance of President Conant, lead a concerted program involving other universities to demand the removal of the loyalty pledge for NROTC students...
Bluestone and Jack A. Bailey '51, treasurer of the Progressives, said the main objection to the loyalty oath is the clause that asks NROTC members to report the names and addresses of other students they saw at meetings of the listed "subversive" organizations...
...NROTC certificate uses one page of small type to relist those organizations originally designated by the Attorney General in the fall of 1947 as totalitarian, fascist, communist, advocating denial of constitutional rights, or seeking to alter the form of government by unconstitutional means. The facing page asks the individual to certify, among other things, whether he has been associated with these organizations...
...NROTC is obviously not at fault in bringing this loyalty probe to Harvard. It is taking orders. So, for that matter is the Navy itself. But the U. S. Government's present all-over standards for security, as mirrored by the Harvard check, are dangerous and inaccurate...