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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...
Sagan recalls how when HLU introduced a resolution stating that the organization should exclude Communists, Bellah was the only student willing to speak out and identify himself as a member of the Party despite fierce anti-communist sentiment...
Just two days later, a divide in a student group showed that the growing rift between democracy and communism had come to Harvard. Sixteen students--nearly a quarter of the group's roster--resigned from the Harvard Liberal Union (HLU) because the officers insisted that all members sign a pledge disavowing communism...