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...Governor of Colorado by claiming his state University harbored "Communistic, subversive professors" failed last March, but only after a month-long storm in that state's education and politics. Center of the controversy was the University of Colorado's top-secret report on "subversive" professors, which Governor Dan Thornton had ordered compiled but refused to make public...
...Governor of Colorado by claiming his state University harbored "Communistic, subversive professors" failed last March, but only after a month-long storm in that state's education and politics. Center of the controvery was the University of Colorado's top-secret report on "subversive" professors, which Governor Dan Thornton had ordered compiled but refused to make public...
Political enemies of Thornton, headed by State Senator Morton G. Wyatt, used information secretly obtained from the report to attack Thornton and his appointee, Colorado University President, Robert L. Stearns. After Stearns had declared there were no "subversives" on the University faculty, Wyatt named three on the libel-free halls of the State Senate, and demanded they be fired. The speech, branded by the Lieutenant-Governor as "nau-seating" led Thornton supporters to rush to the aid of the University, while supporters of civil liberties demanded that the two-year old report, compiled by former FBI agents, be either released...
...Thornton claimed that, "Wyatt is besmirching the character of outstanding citizens without facts...
...Thornton and Stearns are keeping them locked in the safe. They claim they "must be kept secret for the protection of innocent as well as punishment of those guilty." Yet as long as it is hush-hush, every faculty member of Colorado University is subject to the same treatment Senator Wyatt dished out last March...