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Charges that Conant, Justice Frankfurter, and the presidents of M. I. T. Tufts, Radcliffe, Wellesley, and Smith were all communists was made by Henry J. Sullivan, philosopher, who said he had been "liquidated" by Harvard's President. Sullivan had asked for retention of the oath law on the grounds that it was an important barrier against the spread of "red" propaganda...
While the Teachers' Oath became once more a potent issue in State politics yesterday, Harvard slipped into the background in the annual fight for the measure's repeal...
...spearhead of the attack against the oath of allegiance is from Harvard because of their great advocacy of Academic freedom," asserted ex-Representative Thomas Dorgan of Dorchester, fiery sponsor of the original law. "But that does not mean freedom to do anything they please...
Dorgan attacked, among other things, the Student Union, which he said, was an example of the seditious elements permitted to exist unless checked by strict application of the oath...
James S. Lanigan '39, speaking for the Harvard Student Union, demanded that the law be erased from the statutes on the grounds that "the effect of a teachers' oath reflects most heavily on us as students...