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...first star, the committee presented Artie Shaw, the widely read, widely wed (seven times) clarinetist and bandleader. Shaw flew in from a one-night stand in Little Rock, Ark., for a two-hour stand before the committee. The committee's subpoena, blurbed Shaw, "was like a breath of fresh air," because he had plenty to clear...
...Page One furor about Senator Joe McCarthy's "blockade by subpoena," there was a rapid changing of tunes last week. Originally, the Wisconsin Senator boldly announced that he had succeeded where the State Department had failed: his investigating subcommittee had "negotiated" an agreement with Greek shipowners to prevent 242 merchant vessels from carrying cargoes to Communist ports. In answer, Mutual Security Director Harold Stassen boldly told McCarthy that he was "undermining" the State Department. Then the rewriting began...
This week Mutual Security Director Harold E. Stassen appeared before the McCarthy subcommittee as it began its ship investigations. Before the television cameras, Stassen looked McCarthy squarely in the eye and told him what effect the blockade by subpoena had on U.S. efforts to thwart trade with Communist countries. Said Stassen: "You are in effect undermining and are harmful to our objective...
...have censured Professor Lattimores if gifted with foresight, he had assorted the privilege instead of volunteering an opinion for which he was indicted? We have no moral right to dictate the form of the resistance whether it be an appeal to public support, a suit to vacate a subpoena or a silence supported by the First or Fifth Amendments. But resistance, in one from or another, is recognition of a preceptors' duty to his students. The faculties must make it clear long before the arrival of the inquisitors that they will not cooperate with them, that they will assert their...
Furry indicated he had informed Provost Buck as soon as he received a subpoena from the Velde committee three weeks ago. The Provost, who is Chairman of the Administrative Committee, took no action until yesterday, when he issued the following statement: "Professor Wendell H. Furry's reported refusal to answer certain questions put to him by the House Un-American Activities Committee will be given full and deliberate consideration by the Harvard University authorities...