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Ever-rabid in its denunciation of Senator McCarthy's witch hunts, the Americans for Democratic Action has recently assumed its own air of inquisitorial self-righteousness. Last week the national headquarters intervened to prevent Alger Hiss from speaking at the Swarthmore chapter of the ADA. Since the national organization gave no other grounds for its authoritarian behavior, its action obviously represents an attempt to raise a facade of political respectability...
...disturbing implication that any man who speaks before a political organization automatically represents its views. Whether Hiss was a Communist is irrelevant; nor should his present ideas be a deterrent, because an organization does not commit itself to any ideology merely by inviting a man to speak. If the ADA had allowed Hiss to speak, few would have taken exception. By suddenly donning the robes of Draconian vigilance, the ADA only appears hypocritical and foolish...
...Died. Ada Ochs Adler, 89, sister of the late Adolph S. Ochs, longtime (1896-1935) publisher of the New York Times and the Chattanooga Times (1878-1935), mother of the late Major General Julius Ochs Adler, vice president (1919-55) of the New York Times; in Manhattan...
...virtue of its independent position, the Liberal Union has the most freedom in its choice of candidates. Although it cannot oppose candidates supported by either the national or state ADA, the HLU is free to withhold support from whomever it wishes, and can designate the specific men it wishes...
October. Ezra Taft Benson will propose a new solution to the farm problem: plow under every third farmer. The CRIMSON will go to Wellesley to conduct the Miss Radcliffe contest. The Government and Economics departments will cancel all courses since their professors are working for "Democracy and the ADA...