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Just for the record: nowhere in my statement is to be found the suggestion that the student should not be allowed to explore alien philosophies of government or economy; nowhere do I indicate that the faculty should not be at liberty to indict and analyze deficiencies in American life; nowhere do I hint at an orthodoxy that should trammel the thinking of any faculty member who has a basic respect for Christianity and a free economy. If he has notions at complete variance with these latter, which are, to the best of my knowledge, considered by the trustees of Harvard...
That didn't stop the Justice Department. It had legal justification for its position: wartime power to exclude any alien it considers dangerous to the U.S. without granting him a hearing. The only inkling anybody got of its case against 35-year-old Ellen Knauff turned up in a letter which was introduced into the court records. It was from former Attorney General Tom Clark to an unnamed friend; it said that the Justice Department was convinced that Ellen Knauff had been a paid agent for the pre-Communist government of Czechoslovakia while she worked for the U.S. Army...
...took a place at the head of the picket line, earnestly urged the workers to stay out until their demands were met. This was too much for Philippine Labor Secretary Primitive Lovina, who also happens to be a close friend of Colonel Soriano. Hogan, Lovina said, was "an undesirable alien and a mere agitator...
Kluckhohn denied neither the "historical authenticity of Christ nor the existence of God. But he criticized Christianity for posing its dogma as the single truth, for the effort of its missionaries to impose alien values on non-Christian societies, and for "barbarism and destruction unmatched" by any nation...
...this curious conspiracy of circumstances, revolutionary Communism came to be associated with-of all things-order and the promise of peace. This was the process, sped by the age-old agonies of Asia's crowded, impoverished lands, that brought a determined, rebellious Hunanese peasant and an alien ideology of the West to the overlordship of China's millions...