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Three months ago, a grand jury of Middlesex County indicted him under Massachusetts law for conspiring to overthrow both the state and federal governments. Struik sympathizers started rushing to his defense...
...newsmen in Boston he flatly denied party membership: "I try to be a Marxist in the broadest sense." But when he was later summoned before the House Un-American Activities Committee, Struik stood on his constitutional privileges against selfincrimination, and refused to say whether or not he was a member of the Communist Party...
Public Dinner. Harvard Geologist Kirtley Mather sent out 30 letters to Protestant clergymen all over the state, suggesting that Struik be invited to attend community gatherings. Other sympathizers organized an Emergency Defense Committee. When the American Legion gave a testimonial dinner to Philbrick last month and Governor Dever proclaimed a "Philbrick Day," the Struik Defense Committee trumpeted its reply: the occasion, it said, was really "Informer's Day." Two days later, the Universalist Church of Annisquam, Mass, dismissed the Rev. George Abbe for being one of the committee's sponsors. The Greater Boston Universalist Ministers' Association promptly...
...this week the Struik Defense Committee had a nationwide fund-raising campaign going. Marxist Struik would apparently have plenty of support when he finally comes to trial early next year...
...read with great interest in your issue of 5 December the account of a group of professors, who were forming for the defense of Professor Struik of M.I.T., now under indictment, charged with subversive activities. I note that they are acting in defense of "academic freedom." Academic freedom, which is part of the larger freedom guaranteed by the Constitution, is a precious right and should be jealously guarded as such. It appears, however, that there is considerable confusion of thought in academic circles as to just what this and all other freedoms really are. Freedom is a precious right...