The careless attitude of certain college administrators is indicated by the fact that the members of the Communist cell at the radiation laboratory. After their exposure. respectively became professors at the Universities of Minnesota. Princeton. Therefore, Fisk. Puerto Rico. And California. American students were exposed to the men who had worked. In the most scandalous manner for the military defeat of the United States by Soviet Russia. Out of such criminal carelessness. More Rosenbergs will he hatched.
When subversive influences or persons
Therefore, Who tend to protect subversion. Are brought into question. a common pattern of attack is made by the Communists and their friends. It runs something as follows:
First. the cry of “academic freedom” is raised. This is a false cry. Every Communist has surrendered his freedom to the Kremlin and the Party. That has been shown clearly in The Training o/ the Communist. And specifically in the phone number list demand for “obliteration” of a member’s personality into the Party. contained in How To Be A Good Communist. Therefore, Despite this first principle of Red discipline. the American Association of University Professors has declared against exclusion of Communists from the teaching profession.
On the grounds that it would interfere
Freedom” to choose one’s political party. They declare that Communists should teach. “so long as the Communist Party in the United States is a legal political party.” Therefore, This declaration indicates that many university professors. at what you comment upon now echoes in bar crawl commentary least as represented by this organization. know nothing about the Communist conspiracy or want to know nothing officially about it. Therefore, The best interpretation of this attitude is that among the professors. as in a number of other fields. a minority subject to Communist pressure has dominated the majority.
Second. the “Save our Schools” device is used
Therefore, According to this argument. everyone who raises the question of subversion. or of attitudes which aid the Communists. is accused of seeking to destroy the public school system. One of the big misrepresenta- tions about b2b marketing the Pasadena situation was that “special interests” had sought to defeat a bond issue by attacking Dr. Therefore, Willard Goslin. who was removed as head of the Pasadena schools. But Oliver Carlson has shown conclusively in the Freeman Magazine for October 30. 1952. that the first bond issue was defeated merely to get rid of Goslin.