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...questions were based largely on sentiments expressed by various legislators on two education bills that same before the General Court in the spring of 1949. The first, House Bill 442 or the "Sullivan Bill," was designed to "prevent the teaching of atheistic communism and safeguard the ideals of American Education." To do this, the author, Ralph W. Sullivan of Boston, urged that any institution found by the Commissioner of Education to harbor communists on its faculty be deprived of its tax exempt status. His bill was defeated after several changes in form, but others like it have since been dropped...
This action comes as the culmination of a year long struggle between the Regents, who believe they have a duty to "... continue to safeguard the freedom of the university against ruthless, fanatical, and subversive minorities in the body politic such as the Communist Party," and the faculty, which believes that its " ... own screening methods are more effective than any loyalty oath. Fellow travelers, far more dangerous than admitted Communists, are kept out or kicked out by this screening...
...biggest investment of U.S. private capital made in Italy since war's end, Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) last week paid $10 million for a half-interest in two Italian refineries, plunked down another $2,000,000 for purchase of extra equipment. To help safeguard the investment Standard got an EGA guarantee that it can convert at least $14,487,500 of its Italian dividends into dollars over the next twelve years. It is the largest EGA guarantee yet, the first to an oil company. By the deal, Standard got 50% of the capital stock of Italy's ANIC...
...pernicious creed?-. . . You might have imperiled the good relations between this country and the great American republic with whom His Majesty is allied . . . It is not so much for punishment that I impose [the penalty], for punishment to a man of your mentality means nothing. My duty is to safeguard this country...
...this supremely disastrous achievement of holding a totally unsuitable economic ant social system in place by sheer force would have been unthinkable if Russia had possessed the safeguard of democracy-in the simplest sense of the existence of responsible and representative gownment...