Word: various
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris last week, as the U.N. Assembly wound up its affairs for 1948, various things happened to upset the dignity of delegates. The Palais de Chaillot's elevator operators went out on a quickie strike, followed by the dining room waiters. Fire broke out in an unoccupied committee room. During the Palestine debate in the great green & gilt plenary room, a balcony photographer dropped a film can on Turkey's table. Worst of all, brash young Garry Davis, who calls himself a citizen of the world (TIME, Sept. 20, 27), and who has needled the Assembly since September...
...recent, I wish to deny, categorically, membership in the League for Reaction, and participation in any sort of HYRC "cloak and dagger" activity for which the various extraordinary schemes are suggested...
...things got straightened out last night in this case of Fisher vs, the Harvard Young Republican Club. All of them fall into one basic, unpleasant pattern. It is a pattern of guilt on both sides. The Club has been guilty of various underhanded political machinations--the sort of maneuvering that probably goes on in all the big undergraduate political organizations, but that has never before become general knowledge. What is more serious, it has also been guilty of encouraging Fisher, whether officially or unofficially, to do some of the things he has done. Fisher, on his side, has been guilty...
Fisher also attacked the "Machiavellian atmosphere" of the HYRC. He referred to a "Cloak and Dagger Department" (headed by Arthur W. Bingham '51) which, he said, at various times had considered 1) wrecking the NSA, 2) packing the Student Council, 3) infiltrating into the Liberal Union, 4) smearing candidates as Communists, and 5) printing birth control leaflets and distributing them under the name of prominent NSA officers in order to cause dissension between those officers and the Catholic schools...
...chairmen Christopher M. Martin '49 and Waldo H. Heinrichs Jr, '49 of the Social Service Committee, and N. Conant Webb Jr. '49 sent out 1800 tickets to the various settlement houses and agencies, and expect that two-thirds of these will be used. The show will be limited to kids over 12 years...