Word: smith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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James A. Walker's letter in the July 22 CRIMSON has just come to my attention. I wonder if it is not too late for one who actively participated in the demonstration against Gerald L.K. Smith to comment on some of the questions raised in Walker's letter and in the CRIMSON editorial...
...that no one can be permitted to use "free speech" as an excuse to incite violence against Jews and Negroes. One need not call up Holmes' now hackneyed, but still valid warning against granting free speech to him who would shout fire in a crowded theatre. The last time Smith spoke in Boston, his visit was followed by the beatings of young Jewish boys in Dorchester and several attacks on Negroes. To quote from the leaflet circulated by the Boston Youth Council: "We believe in free speech, but we will not permit the lecture platform to be used...
...tactics, there were those who felt with the CRIMSON that protesting against Smith would serve his ends, by according him free publicity... We believe that there is only one way to fight fascists--and that is by fighting them! Smith may have had only 35 supporters at this meeting, but it would be the height of folly, and danger, to allow Smith to continue speaking in Boston until, aided by the approaching depression, he can build himself a following of 3500 or 35,000. Smith had to be taught that fascists are unwelcome in Boston, and equally important, the people...
...Communists among the demonstrators. So what? Is it surprising that the Communists, who are always the first, but by no means the only victims of fascism and who have always taken pride in their militant anti-fascism should participate in a demonstration against a fascist like Gerald L. K. Smith? It is alarming, as well as more than a little revolting, to see Harvard students diverted from the real issue at hand by the game which seems to have become the new national pastime--"I Spy--a Red!" Are we to seek out the Communist position on any question...
...knew for certain what had caused the phenomenon. Dr. F. G. Walton Smith, director of the University of Miami's Marine Laboratory, was sure it was a sudden multiplication of a new species of tiny, one-celled organisms called gymnodinium. He had found as many as 60 million of them in a quart of "red" water. The fish were killed either by a poison secreted by these organisms or as a result of their death and decay, he thought. Their sudden appearance might be explained by an increase in the phosphate content of Gulf water from phosphate plants near...