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...Massachusetts Institute of Technology last Saturday ended the four-and-one-half year suspension of Dirk J. Struik, professor of Mathematics at M.I.T...
...revocation of Struik's suspension came one day after an indictment charging him with conspiracy to overthrow the Federal and State governments was quashed in Middlesex Superior Court. The quashing resulted from the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that the Federal Smith Act superseded Massachusetts' subversives...
...With Struik's indictment on invalid grounds about to be dismissed, M.I.T.'s basis for continuing his suspension will be upset. The Institute must either hire him now that his case is settled, as implied by the conditions of its original suspension decree, or fire him on new grounds. In fairness, his suspension cannot be continued pending expected appeals of the invalidating decisions, for the only three alternatives open to anti-Struik zealots seem doomed to failure from the start...
...First, Struik could be reindicted if the State Attorney General successfully appeals the Gilbert decision to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the high tribunal would be unlikely to accept the case after its contrary Nelson ruling. Second, Congress itself could broaden the intent of Federal Communist control acts to tolerate existing state laws. But such an interpretation would be valid for the 84th Congress only, and could not legally be held to apply retroactively to a case like Struik's. And, finally, in response to the petition of 42 state Attorneys General, the Federal court could hear re-argument...
With the three alternatives removed for justifying continued delay, the Institute must either reverse its suspension of Struik, or finally take an open stand on the issue of employing a suspected subversive. M.I.T., with $28 million in vital government research contracts, may well expect sharp public criticism for rehiring a man who has invoked privileges against self-incrimination. But if the Institute choses to ban Struik now solely on the grounds of his political beliefs, its academic freedom will have become what local Struik-baiter and Suffolk Court Clerk Thomas J. Dorgan once called "a hackeyed phrase, anyway...