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Making much of the fact that the meeting was initiated by the American Youth Congress and given the support of the Student Union, irate members of Gene Tunney's Youth Foundation helped the convention off to a heated beginning by handing out pamphlets branding it as the "Junior Fifth Column...
Cadden referred to the Tunney group by saying that "it has a beautiful office in Radio City, but is in no way representative of youth, and never has had any support from them. As for McArthur, I think the students will prove themselves Americans without any help from Mayor Hague...
...National Foundation, led by Gene Tunney, said yesterday that the meeting is a "new and subtle attempt of the Junior Fifth Column in America to re-establish its influence among students." Murray Plavner, general director of the National Foundation, claimed that the delegates will be hand-picked by the A. Y. C., and accused several youth leaders, including Jack McMichael chairman of the A. Y. C., and Cadden, of being dictated to by Moscow...
Edward Ames '42, president of the H. L. U., when asked to comment last night, attacked Plavner. "Murray Plavner, Gene Tunney, and their National Foundation for Youth," he said, "spend their time attacking the Youth Congress. I, too, have often criticized the Youth Congress, and I have done it to their faces, not only to the press. Furthermore, I have always put forward an alternative program, which I believe is better than their's, while Plavner has done nothing but call names and criticize...
Cadden Blasts Tunney Group...