Word: unfitness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prague. In a formal note of protest the U.S. State Department vainly demanded his release. Last week blunt, able Ellis Briggs, new U.S. ambassador to Czechoslovakia, presented his credentials to Czech President Klement Gottwald. In the golden days of diplomacy, the presentation of credentials was considered an occasion unfit for the transaction of business. But Briggs, no man to be silenced by diplomatic niceties, used the formal occasion to bring up some urgent, unfinished business. Here, he told Gottwald in effect, are my credentials. And now, what about Samuel Meryn...
...Frankfurt last week came the kind of story that more & more headlines are made of: the Army had investigated TVA Chairman Gordon R. Clapp, and found him unfit for a temporary occupation job in Germany. The officer who leaked the story would not let his name be used, but he was willing to make a few large remarks under the protection of anonymity. ". . . Why would he be permitted to remain as head of TVA?" he asked. "I think it is a terrible situation and ought to get an airing...
...done. All of them undoubtedly thought they were aiding academic freedom, not injuring it. First, they had established themselves on the "right side" by condemning Communist teachers. Once on the "right side," they thought their attacks on smear tactics would be heeded. Since they sincerely believed that Communists were "unfit" to teach, they felt they should say so if, in the process, "'investigations,' book-banning, and efforts at intimidation" of non-Communists be cut down...
...institution which has always meant academic freedom, cannot let this misconception stand. He must make a statement, in Harvard's name as well as his own, contradicting the impression left by the press. We are fundamentally opposed to the President's position that Communists per se are unfit as teachers, but we are confident that his ideals are completely incompatible with those of the "Little Dies" committees. We are confident he would oppose any action resembling a "witch-hunt...
...CRIMSON believes that membership in the Communist Party does not automatically "render an individual unfit to discharge the duties of a teacher." First, there is proof that many Communist card-holders are not required to follow the party line. In order to keep many "big names" in the party, the Communists do not demand blind obedience to party policies. Second, even if all Communists surrendered their "intellectual integrity," there are large areas of learning where politics is completely irrelevant. An ardent party-liner in the field of government is one thing--his dogma could well make him incompetent to teach...