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...demand for the removal from office of Immigration Inspector Henry J. Skeffington is but a natural result of a steadily growing intolerable state of affairs. The government officials, the country at large, and the press seem possessed with a fear of a "red revolution" an impossible and entirely remote contingency in this country. Anything liberal, or to the slightest degree unconventional in political and industrial theory, is being branded as revolutionary. Doubtless in times of over-fast development there are very real dangers incurred by the idle patter of "parlor bolshevists." But in times of reaction from liberalism such...
...moment that Mr. Skeffington claims he did not speak of the Liberal Club in particular, but that he merely said he would "like to get some of these Harvard radicals." The fact remains that he represents a point of view which cannot be allowed to prevail in the administration of our government unless we desire the rule of an intolerant aristocracy representing the ideas of only one class...
...Moscow had seen fit to pass as harmless, even for Russia! Is that doctrine of of- fering public insult to a leading citizen of one of our possible allies to be left uninvestigated? It is not so long ago that the Harvard authorities prevented the widow of Mr. Sheehy Skeffington from speaking in the college building, though it allowed men like Scott Nearing to use the same hall but a year before--because she was likely to make remarks about the treatment of her dead husband in the course of her speech that would be derogatory to another...
...February 12 in the Union deserves a large audience. First hand impressions always have something of vital life which no impersonal speculation may attain. The Captain has spoken already at Yale and Princeton. His talk here is especially interesting because he speaks from the same platform where Mrs. Skeffington spoke, with a different view of the same events which have affected them both. His conclusions will be judged by the same judgments as were hers...
...propagandists to speak in College buildings because the University will then appear to be backing the speaker. But is this the case? Harvard has allowed Ian Hay to speak in Sanders. Nobody intimated that Harvard was, for that reason, pro-Ally. But when, the next month, Harvard excludes Mrs. Skeffington, the Boston Herald relates the incident on its front page with the statement that "it was generally understood among the students that the action of the College authorities was taken because of Mrs. Skeffington's supposed anti-British sentiments." There was also a foul blast from another Boston sheet...