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Because the University has so often refused to censure or suppress unpopular political groups at the urging of legislators, alumni, or midwestern newspaper, it is easy to accept Dean Griswold's statement as a natural occurrence. It might be a repetition of what Grenville Clark said two years ago concerning the free expression of the Harvard faculty, or Dean Bender's statement at the time Gerhart Eisler spoke in the Yard...
...question when free speech goes beyond proper limitations is an extraordinarily difficult one to answer. You would have us act to suppress the local organization, by refusing to allow it to use Law School rooms for its speakers, Dean Griswold and, as I read your letter, by dismissing its members from the School...
...Suppressing an organization is a very serious step to take. The local activities of this group of students do not seem to warrant such drastic action. The report of the Committee on Un-American Activities raise questions to which we have been giving serious consideration here. But we do not feel that we should suppress this local group because that Committee, without notice or hearing, has issued a report attacking the national organization with which the student group is affiliated. The United States Attorney General, with the resources of the Federal Bureau of Investigation at his disposal, has not seen...
...that the town must clean up its own mess if it wants to avoid interference from Washington and points north. The "outsider" who is killed by the mob is a crusading newsman who works for a paper no farther away than a large Southern city. Though they want to suppress the scandal, the town's respectable citizens are opposed to the Klan...
Shared Power. Once India was free and Gandhi dead, Patel and Nehru shared supreme power. While Nehru made speeches and handled India's foreign relations, Patel shaped much of the nation's domestic policy. As Home Minister, he used his police to suppress Communist terrorism and to "discipline" troublesome labor unions. As States Minister, he brought India's 550-odd feudal princelings to heel. (In one whirlwind 96-hour tour he pressured two dozen princes into surrendering their political powers, thus added 8,000,000 people and 56,000 square miles to the Dominion of India.) Together...