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Since loyalty oaths are a "partially effective" method to check on loyalty, the Navy has every right to check loyalties in the NROTC with a pledge in which the "steel pigeon clause" is deleted, the HYRC concluded...
...petitions that students will be requested to sign ask for elimination of the certificate's so-called "stool pigeon clause." That section of the certificate requires NROTC students to report other persons known to the signer as having associated with groups listed as subversive by the attorney general...
Americans for Democratic Action, in a letter to Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, has accused the Navy of imitating "Communist totalitarian policies and devices" in requiring NROTC students to sign a 'stool pigeon" loyalty certificate, it was learned last night. The letter was partially initiated by a Liberal Union appeal to the ADA for national action on the "informer clause" in the oath administered to the Harvard Naval Science students...
...NROTC students were required this year by order of Matthews to sing a certificate stating their loyalty to the United States. Included in the paper was the "informer" or "stool-pigeon" clause, which requires the student to name all persons he has ever seen at meetings of certain allergy subversive organization...
Faculty opinion was not adverse to the certificate as such, he said, but "only to the so-called stool pigeon clause...