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...discussing its action, the Council made it clear that both its refusal to endorse the accusations against Thomson and its rejection of the Brady petition were due to insufficient evidence...
...only concrete evidence against Thomson, and hence, for Brady's petition, was a letter from Thomson to Senator Bricker and a verified statement by the HYRC president in the CRIMSON, both disparaging the Political Forum...
Members of the Council stated that the alternative recommendation had intentionally limited application since nothing had been established in the Thomson case. Under the recommendation, however, any student may complain directly to the Dean of "clandestine action...
...published letter from your mailbox, James H. Manahan '58 remarked that "The CRIMSON tendency to meddle in the affairs of Harvard political clubs... is beyond all defense or excuse." The meddling in this case was an editorial on Feb. 20 entitled "Mr. Thomson's Tactics." Manahan further states that "If the CRIMSON is to make any pretense of being an 'impartial observer' of the Harvard scene, a paper of merit, it must leave the path of 'cheap politics' which it has travelled too often in the past." The idea ventured here is a trifle myopic...
Manahan might have a point if the CRIMSON were a propaganda monopoly attacking an organization with no means for reply. But this is not the case. Manahan's letter was published, and the only attack the CRIMSON has made against Thomson was on the editorial page. Besides, the HYRC has a newspaper of its own with no mean circulation by which it can set aright the slanders on its martyred president...