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...HARVARD and the country were reeling from the attacks by Senator Joseph McCarthy and his House Un-American Activities Committee. There were two cases, one involving J. Robert Oppenheimer and another with John Paton Davies of the State Department, that drew nationwide publicity. But in Washington there was another case involving a minor Navy employee named Abraham Chasanow which attracted the attention of Anthony Lewis '48, a former Managing Editor of The Crimson who was working as a reporter for The Washington Daily News. Lewis was concerned about the case because Chasanow had little money to use for his defense...
...fairly crackles with talk of change. There are times in the life of every major nation when it is forced to stop in its tracks, take painful stock of itself and ask itself where it is going. For South Africa, such a time has finally come." Says Novelist Alan Paton, former leader of the banned Liberal Party: "There is a loosening of the logjam." Adds Helen Suzman, the opposition Progressive Party's only Member of Parliament: "For the first time in many years, I'm optimistic about the future of South Africa...
Into the hearing room of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week strode two men who had passed more than a quarter-century in the flickering light and shade of nonrecognition. John Stewart Service and John Paton Davies Jr., both 65, once middle-echelon Foreign Service officers of the State Department, as long ago as 1944 correctly diagnosed the power and potential of Mao Tse-tung's Chinese Communist Party and urged that the U.S. make an early accommodation with it. Had this been done, they contend-and many observers agree-the U.S. might have been spared two wars...
Helen Louise Gardner, Merton Professor of English Literature at Oxford University known for her studies of the Metaphysical poets, received the degree of Doctor of Letters, as did Paton and Senghor...
...Paton served until 1968 as President of South Africa's Liberal Party. His novel, Gry, the Beloved Country, published in 1958, received international acclaim as a protest against the racist system of South Africa. His other writings include Too Late, the Philanthrope and The Land and People of South Africa. Yale honored him with a Doctor of Letters degree...