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...home support grew yesterday for Professor Harlow Shapley's position in his battle with the House Committee on Un-American activities, his opponent, Repsentative John E. Rankin (D-Miss), gave ground slightly under pressure from his Washington colleagues...
Eliot revealed last night that he had suggested to Shapley that he refuse to answer any question without the advice of counsel. When Rankin ejected Eliot from the room, Shapley merely declined to answer Rankin's queries. "Professor Shapley would have had no witnesses," Eliot pointed out, "except those associated with the committee, which had already admitted that it would doctor the records if it desired...
Cambridge reactions to the incident indicated last night that Shapley would receive at least moral support from home. Richard Edsell, a member of the executive committee of the Massachusetts ICCASP, echoed the astronomer in calling the action of the committee "high-handed, dictatorial, and un-American...
...completely in line with the previous actions of the Wood-Ranking committee and of Rankin in particular. The idea of Rankin himself conducting and making the rules for the committee and then not allowing Professor Shapley counsel is a sign that he is afraid of allowing people freedom of expression." Edsell added that his organization would get in touch with the Speaker of the House to oppose the contempt action...
...Liberal Union, after hearing C. Fayette Taylor, M.I.T. professor and vice-chairman of the Massachusetts Independent Citizens PAC, condemn Rankin's action, voted last night to distribute petitions among the student body today backing Shapley's position. Taylor himself had expressed hope that such behavior by Rankin and the committee would lead to a recognition by Congress of the group's nature and finally its discontinuance...