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Shortly after the informant had delivered his oral report, the Prudential Committee informed Professor Brand Blanshard, chairman of the philosophy department, that Mr. Cohen was not to be appointed. This contradicts Provost Furniss' statement that the case was never decided against Mr. Cohen, but merely "held in abeyance." The committee further stated that when a man's rejection was based on communist affiliation, the department involved would have no voice in the matter...
...Nation, 83-year-old journal of opinion, was among the missing. A little digging uncovered what the board of school superintendents had not announced. The board had voted not to renew its 18 Nation subscriptions, on the ground that the weekly (circ. 42,000) had printed articles by Paul Blanshard, onetime New York City commissioner of accounts, criticizing the Catholic Church's stand on fascism, science and censorship of books and movies. The offending copies were yanked out of the school libraries...
Neighboring Newark had gone farther. Last winter, after an earlier series of Blanshard articles, the Nation had been removed from the libraries of Newark's four high schools by the school superintendent. When Nation Editor Freda Kirchwey protested, the Newark board of education (five Catholics, three Protestants, one Jew) unanimously backed the superintendent. In Trenton, N.J., school officials clipped the articles from the magazines before they were put in the libraries...
...Nation was banned by the New York Board of Superintendent after a series of articles by Paul Blanshard criticizing the positions of the Roman Catholic Church on several matters...
...York City's Board of (school) Superintendents banned the leftist Nation from public-school libraries, on the grounds that a series of articles by Paul Blanshard had been "definitely anti-Catholic." The American Civil Liberties Union called the board's action "a shocking and arbitrary exhibition of censorship...