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This maelstrom of hysteria has never caught up the Dean's Office, and, indeed, Dean Bender's defense of the John Reed Club's right to sponsor a speech at Harvard by Gerhart Eisler was a strong statement of the case for individual liberties and free discussion. But the cold war has not entirely passed the College by, and it has, in fact, helped to shape the limitations on undergraduate activities...
...thumping left-wing Socialist Leader Pietro Nenni furiously denounced the Atlantic pact as an instrument of war, shouted that President Truman was "a pocket-sized Napoleon . . ." The U.S. was represented by party-lining Negro educator Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, Germany by America's erstwhile No. 1 Communist Gerhart Eisler. When one of the delegates blurted out "Long live Stalin!", foreign guests and their Soviet friends applauded loud and long...
Seven weeks after Communist Gerhart Eisler sneaked out of the U.S. as a stowaway, his wife Brunhilde, 37, set off in style last week to join him in the Soviet sector of Berlin. Because she was being deported (for overstaying her visitor's permit), the U.S. Government had to lay out $468.09 for her airline ticket. Even so, she was feeling a little miffed...
Whose Headlines? But the fact was that the executive departments were busier than any other agencies, and quite properly, in the investigation and prosecution of Communist agents. It was the Department of Justice which staged the comic-opera search of the ship on which Stowaway Gerhart Eisler made his escape. It was also still holding his wife on Ellis Island. It was Justice which was responsible for most of the headlines with its trials of Alger Hiss, Judith Coplon and the eleven Communist leaders. It was Harry Truman who by executive order had set up a loyalty investigation...
...escape of Communist Kingpin Gerhart Eisler had made the U.S. Government hopping mad. Unable to lay hands on the little man who was snugly draped in the Iron Curtain, the U.S. Government last week did what it seemed to consider the next best thing: it staged a spectacular, two-day inspection of the Polish liner Batory, aboard which Eisler had stowed away. The announced purpose was to find out who had helped...