Word: speakers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through Mr. Jerome D. Greene, Secretary of the Corporation, the Administration of Harvard University has denied the John Reed Society its right of hearing a speaker of its own choice. The John Reed Society invited Mr. Earl Browder to speak at Harvard on "The World Crisis," because it felt that the students and faculty of the University wanted to hear all sides of this important topic. Mr. Browder is the most authoritative representative of a legitimate point of view on this issue. When Mr. Browder was indicted on a technical passport charge, Mr. Greene suggested that the meeting be abandoned...
This country is in grave danger of being involved in the European war. The mounting hysteria has already increased the danger of involvement and has threatened to eclipse the fundamental civil liberties of the American people. In refusing us our right to hear a speaker of our choice, the Administration can only contribute to this undemocratic hysteria. In taking such a step the Administration can only align itself with those who, according to a recent Crimson editorial, "are trying to build for the United States a super-highway straight to Armageddon...
...Society has not decided whether it should continue to ask the University for a hall in which Browder could speak, whether it should sponsor a lecture outside the University, or whether it should get some other speaker; any of these plans may be adopted, according to the Society...
Greene refused permission to use the New Lecture Hall if Browder spoke, but according to a letter to the Society any other speaker would be accepted as long as Browder, who is now under indictment for using passports under an assumed name, was not the subject of discussion...
Huge crowds stood in Berlin streets, in Hamburg beer gardens, in Magdeburg restaurants listening to a speech over the radio. It was artful-alternating historical review with hysterical threat. The speaker's voice was deep, gruff, staccato as that of a Prussian drillmaster...