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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE C:I-IIEFS .
among the Communists of that meeting were seven university Presidents, and, of course,
Albert Einstein. Einstein is connected with forty Communist Front organizations.
The other day, ’he suggested that anybody who was called before the Senate Committee
should refuse to testify, but nobody takes Einstein too seriously. He is the case of a
genius in his own field, an.d~ a child when he steps out ’of it.
Einstein received the .blessings of American citizenship a few years ago, :but ap-
parently he does not rate it very highly.
However, the magazine, LIFE, ..after that Conference at the Waldorf-Astoria,
used pictures of fifty prominent persons under the caption:
"Dupes and Fellow 7I’ravelers dress up Communist Fronts."
Now, of those fifty, ,sixteen of them were educators; that is 32 per cent of the
total.
Did the academic world protest this debasement of the teaching profession? Not
a word was heard; not a peep wa~ heard.
What have the colleges and the universities d’.one to clean themselves up?
The Radiation Laboratory of the University of California, at Berkeley, participated
in the productidn of the atomic bomb. Six Professors in that laboratory have been linked
with Communist Fronts. All of them have taken refuge in the Fifth Amendment,
when questioned about their membership in the Berkeley cell.
Who exposed that?
It wasn’t the educators. It was curious newspaper men who exposed that.
And what happened to the six Professors? Well, one of them is teaching at
Brooklyn Polytech Institute; one is at the University of Minnesota; one is = teaching at
Fiske University; one i,s at the University of Puerto Rico.; one is at Princeton, and one
is still at the University of California.
Then, we have something that is a little closer to home. A professor at Harvard
University, Wendell Furry, refused to testify .before the Jenner Committee. He testified,
but he refuse5 to give answrs to questions as to whether, he wa, s or had been a
Communist. He came back to .Cambridge, and he told the newspaper men the answers
to the questions.
Whereupon, Harvard University told him to go back to Washington and testify
again, which he did.
Then, the Harvard Board of Overseers studied the case, and after studying the
ca’se, they said that he had made a mistake, and it was a grave mistake, but they said
that it was not of such a nature that should cause his dismissal from the. faculty, even
though he lied when he signed a questionnaire concerning his employment on the
atomic bomb project, and he deliberately lied in that questionnaire, and yet the Harvard
¯ Board of ’Overseers, in their official report, said that he lied, but they were going to
overlook that, and place him on probation for three years.
Well, ¯ over the gates to the entrance of the Harvard Yard, there is a keystone,
an.d ,on that keystone, there is the Latin word, Veritas, which you all know means
Truth.
However, Professor Furry is still a.t Harvard.
Harvard also said that Dr. Helen Markham was not going to be disturbed, be*
cause she had told them she was not a Communist. After that, she went to Washing,
ton, to appear before the Jenner Committee, and, under oath to the Jenner C=ommittee,
she refused to say whether or not she wa.s a Communist.
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