Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Monro pointed out that "the least employee of the Federal government takes a loyalty oath." He said, "People don't have to go into the Peace Corps. If they are working for the government, it has a right to require an oath...
Government Requires Oath...
President Pusey indicated last week that he would look with disfavor on a loyalty oath provision. Monro charged that the oath "smacks of distrust, won't do any good, and cheapens the whole virtue of oaths," and said it represented an invasion of privacy, but he suggested that only an attempt to require an affidavit of disbelief should be strenuously opposed...
Section 1001 (f)--the loyalty oath and affidavit that everyone was so upset about a year ago--is still part of the National Defense Education Act. The last effort at repeal died last summer in the House Education and Labor Committee. After three failures, supporters of repeal may understandably be discouraged. But unless Harvard and other institutions are willing to reconcile themselves either to administering the oath and affidavit or to foregoing increasingly large sums of money, they must once again take up the fight for repeal...
When the NDEA was passed in August 1958, Section 1001 (f) snuck in through an elaborate series of conference committee compromises, with no one realizing its implications. Then, educational institutions discovered that they would have to administer the oath and affidavit themselves and the campaign for repeal began. The act is up for renewal this year, and 1001 (f) will not disappear quietly. If the academic community wants to get rid of the affidavit (it is apparently willing to live with the oath), it must exert even more pressure than it did last year...