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...October 1946, for example, the Harvard Liberal Union (HLU) purged its executive board of the more radical American Youth for Democracy (AYD) members...
...group meeting the next day, they portrayed the AYD--heir to the Young Communists League--as an undemocratic organization and won support for the election of a new board. William H. Bozman '46 replaced AYD member Harry A. Mendelsohn '48 as HLU president; three other officers were also deposed...
...small way, the AYD-HLU subterfuge was a precursor to the anti-Communist purges that occurred across the nation in later years...
...Anyone who equates contraception with Hitler's precepts, as did Psychiatrist Frank Ayd in his commencement address to Xavier University [June 19], should examine his own mental health. Dr. Ayd's lack of restraint in fathering twelve children cost him only perhaps a sports car or an expensive vacation. Twelve children born to one of lower economic station can mean absolute destitution and lack of education and opportunity for the blameless offspring. I protest being linked with Hitler just because I choose to limit my own family and to help others do the same...
...doing what comes naturally, warned Kentucky's Oswald, has resulted in the population boom that inflames "the ills of mankind." Was that a gentle recommendation of birth control? Maybe so, but Psychiatrist Frank Ayd, the father of twelve children, told graduates of Roman Catholic Xavier University in Cincinnati that the choice is between sacrificial abstinence and the "almost Hitlerian precept" of artificial contraception...