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...January 20th edition of the CRIMSON contains a comment by Herbert A. Philbrick on a petition circulated by the Harvard Fellowship of Reconciliation. For one thing, he misunderstands FOR's petition. He writes, "I will suggest that . . . they circulate the same petitions demanding that the surplus foods be circulated to South Viot Nam, where more than 350,000 homeless and hungry refugees, driven from their homes by the well fed Reds, are is dire need of subsistence." The Harvard FOR petition asked that the President send surplus food to all the needy, "regardless of political persuasion, particularly to Chins...
...also somewhat disturbed by Mr. Philbrick's first sentence in which he speaks of "Chinese Communists who allegedly have lost crops due to a flood of the Yangtze River." Less than one percent of the Chinese people belong to the Communist party. Furthermore, the loss of crops need not be alleged; it can be demonstrated. The Yangtze inundated a large part of China's vital rice bowl. The Communists admitted the flooding of nearly 42,000 square miles of farm land. Western sources put the figure at over 267,000 square miles. In view of the Yangtze's record crest...
Even granting that the Soviet "Utopia" has produced such mountains of food as Mr. Philbrick describes, is it logical to assume that these stocks will be distributed to China...
...will suggest that as an alternative, they circulate the same petitions demanding that the surplus foods be circulated to South Viet Nam, where more than 350,000 homeless and hungry refugees, driven from their homes by the well fed Reds, are in dire need of substinence. Herbert A. Philbrick New York Herald Tribune
...only in veiled insinuation. He firsts with libel without actually opening himself to suit. But at one point he does slip badly. Late in the article he boldly announces, "There is an organized Communist movement at Harvard," using for evidence only the testimony of former FBI undercover agent Herb Philbrick and former Communist Bella Dodd that there was a cell of professors here during the 1930's and '40's. The earlier existence of cells is now recognized as a fact, but it would be difficult to prove a present organized movement...