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...Harlow Shapley, Paine professor of Practical Astronomy who is currently involved in a legal fight with the Wood-Rankin Un-American Activities Committee, will preside over the meeting of experts who will explain the various aspects of this experimental branch of the United Nations which has the ambitious title of United Nations Economic, Social, and Cultural Organization...
Backing down form his contention of Thursday that he could and should act alone to send a contempt citation of Shapley to Speaker Sam Rayburn of the House, Rankin announced yesterday that he would present the question of Shapley's contempt to the whole committee next Friday for their approval or disapproval...
Meanwhile, in the College, the Liberal Union activated its announced support of Shapley's stand as it passed out petitions in the seven Houses during that the "disgraceful treatment accorded Professor Shapley be disowned by the Congressional leaders of the United States." In a letter distributed to students as they signed the petition, the HLU added that it felt that "all students at Harvard, whatever their political opinions may be, are shocked and disgusted at the treatment accorded professor Shapley...
...Harvard professor of Astronomy, a citizen of the United States and the commonwealth of Massachusetts, is now defending the right of all citizens to write and speak as they please. This is the position of Harlow Shapley, victim of the wildest horseplay that demagoguery and ignorance can combine to produce. John Rankin, Congressman, demanding that Shapley produce records of organizations that Shapley patently does not belong to, descended to mens' rooms tacties by forcibly seizing some of his witness' papers...
Professor Shapley is performing a service to the community by refusing to subject himself to any indignities, however inconsequential, at the hands of the Wood-Rankin Committee. By doing so, he may force a re-examination of the activities of the Rankin group who would down and persecute American citizens for campaigning on the "wrong" side in an election...