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...Over sixty professors, clergymen, and other citizens of Massachusetts" have formed a new committee to aid Dirk J. Struik, suspended M.I.T. professor, George Sarton, professor of History and Science, emeritus, and the Committee's chairman, announced yesterday...
...Struik is now under indictment for "advocating the overthrow of the Commonwealth...
...Struik Defense Committee plans to send appeals "to as many people as possible to get contributions," according to Sarton. The committee's first statement, released yesterday, declared. "We believe that Professor Struik should have the right to express his views without intimidation... Agreement or disagreement with Professor Struik's views are not the issue here...
...move to set up the Struik Defense Committee began several weeks ago when Sarton sent Mather a letter saying that the Civil Liberties Union, of which Mather is a member, had not been speaking out on this matter and that "we ought to do something for Struik...
...Struik's talk was cancelled only because the Progressive Club did not receive recognition from the B.U. Executive Committee of the Student Faculty Committee, not, as many metropolitan papers indicated, because B.U. officials disapproved of Struik's appearance...