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Poet Peter Viereck '37 and news analyst Elmer Davis will address the annual meeting of the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa at 11 a.m. today in Sanders Theatre...
...Viereck, Pulitzer Prize winning historian, will read a poem, "Some Refrains at the River Charles." Davis will speak on "Are We Worth Saving...
...talk to the Athenacum Sunday night, Peter Viereck pounded home the idea that liberal intellectuals still can't bring themselves to hate Communism as much as Hitlerism. As the audience filed out of the hall and into the Square for late snacks, they saw something which did more than all the evening's debate to show that Viereck's indictment held true for but a small number of present "eggheads...
...isolated case) can only suggest that perhaps the great bulk of liberal intellectuals, as opposed to their most conservative opponents, can still recognize a man's achievements apart from his political views; that their hatred of suppression is not just limited to Communists; and that perhaps Mr. Viereck and those who condemn with him are just seeking an easy scapegoat for the brute fact of postwar Russian successes...
...Viereck argued that this early infatuation with Communism during the 1930's still persisted today in the form of a "cultural lag" by which intellectuals, even though anti-Communist, each year sanctify a martyr to the cause of academic freedom or free speech who later turns out to have been a practicing Communist or fellow-traveler. A couple of years ago it was Hiss," he said. "Now it is Lattimore...