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...first, the show might easily have been mistaken for an election rally for Henry Wallace, where the party line was pushed, but not too obviously. In fact, the National Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions, which sponsored the conference, had also espoused Wallace's candidacy. Dr. Harlow Shapley, Harvard astronomer and chairman of N.C.A.S.P., a veteran advocate of party-line causes, was the conference chairman. Quietly working around him was the same hard core of trained Communists, the same muddle of the earnest and the inexperienced. The list of sponsors included such familiar leftist names as Playwright Arthur...
cussion of Harlow Shapley, director of the University Observatory, whom he describes as "one of the most distinguished (persons) ever enlisted in a Communist front cause." Griffin charged Shapley of having connections with over a dozen "front groups...
...only other professors specifically named were F. O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature; Allen M. Butlor, professor of Pediatrics at the Medical School; and Walter O. Roberts, "a Shapley protege" at the Observatory. All three participated in the Shapley backed world peace conference...
...that time Shapley, Kirtley F. Mathor, professor of Geology, and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '37, associate professor of History, were described as professors who frequently came "out from behind their books to toe the party line...
...local committee of the Council of Arts, Sciences, and Professions, which Harvard Observatory Director Harlow Shapley heads, had planned a meeting at Yale tomorrow night to be addressed by the Soviet composer and fellow delegates to the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace...