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Budenz said that Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, and suspended M.I.T. professor Dirk J. Struik are members of from 15 to 40 Communist-front organizations...
...your report of last night's meeting on the Struik case there is an error which, though apparently trivial, actually completely destroys the meaning of my remarks. You state (as did Mr. Donlon) that Struik was indicted for conspiring to overthrow the government by force. Actually (as I pointed out by reading the indictment) the charge is conspiring to advocate overthrowing the government. From the point of view of freedom of speech the distinction is absolutely essential. The Civil Liberties Union does not recognize any right to overthrow the government by force, or to conspire to do so. It does...
...Struik, professor of Mathematics at M.I.T. suspended until the outcome of his trial, was indicted for conspiring to overthrow, by force and violence, the government of the United States and the government of the Commonwealth...
Mentioning, the second item of the bill of particulars delivered to Struik at the time of his attempt to quash the indictment against him--an item which says that Struik planned to advocate the overthrow of the government--Mather cracked. "It is so easy for some to know the inner workings of the minds of others. There is a striking contrast between the indictment of a professor of Mathematics at M.I.T. and of an official of the Communist party...
Charging that students are being won over to Communism by "subtle indoctrination," Donlan hit M.I.T., in connection with Struik, for letting him resume "his high post as professor ...as though nothing had happened...