Word: oneness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since there were 300 questions, and five possible answers to each one, chance alone would give 60 correct replies. If a student gets considerably above 60, it is possible that he has "ESP" ability...
...Navy has removed the obscurity from one significant clause in the loyalty questionnaire distributed this Fall to all Harvard NROTC students. This clause requires Navy men to supply--along with a confession of any formal or informal association with groups on the Attorney General's "subversive" list--a list of "names and addresses of others similarly associated or acting...
...This is one of the most peculiar regulations in the history of national security. The Navy, supposedly insuring the loyalty of its own personnel, has now taken upon itself the task of checking on the entirely legal comings and goings of private citizens. Why does the Navy concern itself with the political activity of persons not in the Armed Services? How does the Navy--or possibly some other government agency--plan to use this information gathered at the expense of individual privacy...
...loyalty quiz was objectionable even before it was "clarified" by the Bureau of Naval Personnel. The questionnaire is based on a list drawn up by one man, the Attorney General; it asks questions based on the principle of guilt by association; and it is then sifted by loyalty boards, which in recently publicized instances have shown irresponsibility...
...avoid trouble, he will be extremely unlikely to exercise his curiosity by examining the operations and doctrines of proscribed groups. And even the student who doesn't go near NROTC headquarters will be wary of listening to ideas labeled "subversive," if he knows that a person "similarly associated" may one day jot this down on a Navy questionnaire for possible use by a government official who views all political activity as red and white...