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...case of Dirk Struik, M.I.T. faculty member accused in 1951 of advocating the violent overthrow of the government, was re-opened yesterday when the Massachusetts Commission on Communism asked M.I.T. to review the "question of Professor Dirk Struick's fitness to be a member of the faculty...
...Commission's report said that Struik's retention on the faculty of M.I.T. "has been of great aid and comfort to the Communist Party of the United States...
...M.I.T. announced that it has reinstated Mathematician Dirk Struik to the rank of full professor. In 1951, when a Massachusetts grand jury indicted Struik for plotting the violent overthrow of the government, M.I.T. suspended him with full pay and without prejudice. Though the state later dropped its case, M.I.T. decided to carry on an investigation of its own. The gist of the faculty committee's findings: Struik has never made any secret of his Marxist views, but there is no proof that he has ever been a member of the Communist Party or that his beliefs have interfered with...
...more than five years a series of legal hurdles, including the extradition of prosecution witnesses, blocked a judicial hearing for Struik. Faced with the thorny problem of deciding publicly whether or not it would allow an alleged Communist to teach on its Faculty, M.I.T. resolved the issue by suspending Struik until the settlement of his criminal indictment...
Since no subsequent court hearing on Struik's alleged Communist activities has been held, the Institute was faced in May with either re-hiring Struik or suspending him on new grounds...