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...Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling last week opened the way to ending the ordeal of legal limbo in which M.I.T. Mathematics professor Dirk Struik has been suspended since 1951. Neatly ducking the issue of hiring an alleged Communist faculty member, the Institute removed Struik from his teaching duties five years ago on the grounds that he had a civil suit pending against him. But now, with dismissal of his indictment for conspiracy against the State imminent, M.I.T. must either restore him to his full position or discover new grounds for preventing his return...
After five years under indictment, Struik will probably be released from State prosecution in the near future, following last week's decision in the case Commonwealth v. Gilbert. The ruling, first lower court interpretation of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent findings in Pennsylvania v. Nelson, decreed that Congressional legislation on security matters had superceded state anti-sedition laws. The Nelson decision found that a state act such as the 1919 "Prohibition of Anarchy Law," under which Struik was indicted, was clearly contravened by Congressional action in the field--specifically, the Smith Act, the Internal Security Act, and the Communist...
Mark de Wolfe Howe '28, professor of Law, said yesterday that the Supreme Court ruling which invalidates anti-subversion laws on the state level may increase the fairness of investigations and will definitely clear defendants such as former M.I.T. professor Dirk J. Struik...
...case of Struik, a former professor of Physics at M.I.T., is still pending before the Middlesex County Court. He was charged in 1951 under Massachusetts law with "conspiring to overthrow the governments of Massachusetts and the United States...
...charges against Struik are now invalid, according to Howe, despite any future action by Congress permitting state laws on subversion...