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MODERN INQUISITIONAL METHODS
ADDRESS ON RECEIVING
LORD & TAYLOR AWARD
Broadcast by mdio (tape-recorded) May 4, 1953.
I gladly accept this award as an expression of friendly sentiments.
It gives me great pleasure, indeed, to see the stubbornness
of an incorrigible nonconformist w=ly acclaimed.
To be sure, we are concerned here with nonconformism in a
remote field of endeavor, and no Senatorial committee has as
yet felt impelled to tackle the important task of combating,
also in this field, the dangers which threaten the inner security
of the uncritical or else intimidated citizen.
As for the words of warm praise addressed to me, I shall
carefully refrain from disputing them. For who still believes
that there is such a thing as genuine modesty? I should run
the risk of being taken for just an old hypocrite. You will
surely understand that I do not find the courage to brave this
danger.
Thus all that remains is to assure you of my gratitude.
MODERN INQUISITIONAL METHODS
Letter to William Frauenglass, a teacher in Brooklyn, N. Y.,
who had refused to testify before a Congressional Committee.
Published June 12, 1953, in the New York Times.
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May 16, 1953
DEAR MR. FRAUENGLASs:
Thank you for your communication. By "remote field" I
referred to the theoretical foundations of physics.
The problem with which the intellectuals of this country are
confronted is very serious. The reactionary politicians have
managed to instill suspicion of all intellectual efforts into the
public by dangling before their eyes a danger from without.