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...take the case of Dr. Harlow Shapley. Dr. Shapley is a member of 20 different known Communist organizations. Now, a man could get into one or two or three of those by accident. I got into one myself one time. But here is a man who is a member of 20 Communist organizations. He is a very distinguished man and a very extraordinary man. He is probably one of the greatest living astronomers, but he shows up at Communist meetings; he has financed Communist meetings. A man can be fooled by that once or twice or maybe three times...
...Shapley and Communists
Flunn: "Yes, that is right. Shapley organized the Communist Wold Peace Conference which was a notorious Communist operation. He says he sees no Reds in any of these fronts. Now it seems incredible to me that a man who can see so far in his profession cannot see a whole Madison Square Garden full of Reds all around him in an organization which he brought into existence, and when a man--he is playing with words...
Specifically with regard to Shapley, Conant said, "I have known him for a long time. Anybody can be a hidden Communist as was brought out here, but I do not regard him as one. He is an astronomer as you know...
...many years, will last spring, the director of the Observatory was Harlow Shapley, Paino Professor of Practical Astronomy...