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...courthouse, where Alger Hiss stood trial and where the party's eleven leaders lost their 1949 marathon with the law, attorneys for the newly arrested comrades fussed loudly about bail. Originally it was set at $277,500, so that the Commies would think twice about jumping bail as Gerhart Eisler did, but later it was trimmed to $176,000. To the Reds' rescue, as usual, came wealthy Party-Liner Frederick Vanderbilt Field, who put up $31,000 in U.S. bonds, $5,000 in cash, enough to spring four...
...urging of legislators, alumni, or midwestern newspaper, it is easy to accept Dean Griswold's statement as a natural occurrence. It might be a repetition of what Grenville Clark said two years ago concerning the free expression of the Harvard faculty, or Dean Bender's statement at the time Gerhart Eisler spoke in the Yard...
When Communist Gerhart Eisler beat out a U.S. jail sentence in 1949 for contempt of Congress and passport fraud by stowing away on the Polish liner Batory, he was hailed by East German comrades as a "victim" of American "repression." They installed him as a professor in Leipzig University, then made him propaganda boss of the Soviet zone...
Twenty years ago, he confessed, he had committed the sin of "conciliationism" by demanding an alliance with socialism. Groveled Gerhart: "A conciliationist cannot be an honest Communist, cannot be a Marxist-Leninist, cannot be an honest friend of the Soviet Union, cannot be an honest disciple of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and of Comrade Stalin...
...University's fears for its good name are ill-founded. Just two years ago, when the John Reed Club sponsored Gerhart Eisler's appearance here, Dean Bender said: "Our policy for student organizations is simple. Any recognized group can hold a meeting in a Harvard building . . . and listen to any speaker they can persuade to come. The fact that a man speaks at Harvard does not mean that Harvard in any way endorses his views or even that the organization involved does. If the Dean's Office were to attempt to decide who would be allowed to speak...