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...Christ speaking at Hyde Park Corner and Tower Hill. In the U.S. "His command to the rich to 'sell all that thou hast and give to the poor' might make Him suspect of 'Communist' leanings. His preaching might fall into the category of 'unAmerican activities.' But provided He didn't clash too badly . . . He would probably be invited to speak at women's clubs, and His teaching would be regarded as a new cult worthy of the attention of 'progressive' females with nothing better...
Vested Interest. In Lansing, Mich., after State Representative Manning Hathaway Jr. denounced parking meters because "they are extortion, they are unAmerican, they are totalitarian," the Detroit traffic court noted Hathaway had collected 38 parking tickets in nine years...
...congressional investigations have proved to be quite such a fiasco as the House Special Committee's inquiry into tax-free foundations. Right from the start, through quotations out of context and broad innuendo, the committee's research staff tried to prove that the foundations have been vaguely unAmerican. Then, just as the foundations began their own defense, Chairman Brazilla Carroll Reece of Tennessee joined his fellow Republicans in abruptly voting to end public hearings; the foundations were invited to reply in written statements...
...private schools are something of a national necessity, said U.S. Education Commissioner Samuel M. Brownell last week: "It is sometimes said that [the private schools] are undemocratic and unAmerican. The fact is, however, that . . . by their historic contributions to our tradition of freedom of belief and freedom to teach . . . they exemplify a democratic freedom . . . Cultivation of a habitual awareness of God and . . . teaching the history and bases of religion are inalienable rights which the non-public schools may exercise in their attempts to make God-centered rather than self-centered youth." Indeed, concluded Brownell, the greatness of American education...
...original statement read: "In a current edition of a national publication ("Confidential") there appears a partial list of professors still teaching at Harvard who were named by the House UnAmerican Activities Committee as Communist sympathizers. The magazine also goes on to prove that many of the Communists ferreted out from the government have been Harvard graduates...