Word: smith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only did the demonstrators save Smith from a grave of his own digging, they put themselves and the organizations they represent in an unfavorable position. Any "liberal" group can expect to be branded Communistic at one time or another, but the zealots who heckled Smith into silence were practically asking for the red label. Their action gave Smith an opportunity to demonstrate dramatically that his Christian Nationalist Crusade is anti-Communist--something many people will count to be a virtue covering a multitude of sins...
...incite immediate violence, men shall be allowed to speak their mind no matter how pernicious their doctrine may be. The worth of ideas is to be tested in the marketplace of political discussion, and the decision to be rendered at the polls. The very liberal groups that denied Smith a hearing should be the ones that are most conscious of the necessity for free speech for all--not just for those with whom they happen to agree--if change and progress is to be accomplished without violence. Yet their action is all the more deplorable since they are private organizations...
...estimated 100 men and women from Harvard and Radcliffe attended the shouting down of Gerald L. K. Smith last Sunday, with about 35 actively assisting the Boston Youth Council and the remainder serving quietly as spectators...
Henry A. Mendelsohn '48, temporary president of the newly-chartered Harvard Youth for Democracy, (pictured above the first of two pickets carrying the "No Free Speech. . . . ." signa), led a small Square delegation that paraded with about 100 others before the doors of the Old South Meeting House, protesting Smith's appearance...
Scheduled to speak in behalf of his Christian Nationalist crusade, Smith was booed out of the ball--after an hour of trying to start his address--by the Youth Council supporters, who called Smith a Fascist and later approved a resolution condemming him for "stirring up racial and religious hatreds...