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Among others also dismissed in the New York area, in the wake of Congressional investigation were Dr. Clarence Hiskey of Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, Dr. Gene Weltfish of Columbia University, and 12 faculty members from four municipal colleges, Brooklyn, Queens, Hunter, and City...
...Gene Weltfish, 50, is an energetic, dark-haired woman who for the last nine years has often been in hot water. A lecturer on anthropology at Columbia University, she has wandered far from her studies of the Pawnee Indians, has always had more irons in the fire than her courses on the peoples of Africa. She is American vice president of the Communist-controlled Women's International Democratic Federation, was once president of the federation's affiliate, the Congress of American Women. Last year she did her best to publicize "proof" that the U.S. was using germ warfare...
Last week Columbia University announced that Anthropologist Weltfish's contract would not be renewed-not, said Columbia, because of her politics, but because there were not enough permanent appointments to go around. But with or without a job, Gene Weltfish was still getting into hot water. Once again, Senator McCarthy asked her whether she is now or ever has been a member of the Communist Party. Her reply: "I refuse to answer on the grounds...
...last witness apparently had no such desire to cooperate. Columbia Anthropologist Gene (The Races of Mankind) Weltfish refused to say whether she was ever a Communist, and she emphatically denied that she had recently accused the U.S. of using germ warfare in Korea. All she had done, she said, was to call a press conference and hand out an affidavit made by the Rev. Dr. James Endicott, chairman of the Communist-front Canadian Peace Congress. What did the affidavit charge? That the U.S. was using germ warfare in Korea. Did she know Dr. Endicott personally? No, but she "believed...
Columbia's fortyish, bouncy Dr. Gene Weltfish, who teaches anthropology (the science of Man), is a woman, but that is not the only reason she is sometimes dubious about man's future. Like many another scientist (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), she is shocked by the horrors of a war in which scientific brains were deciding factors. In September's Scientific Monthly, Dr. Weltfish proposed a professional oath for all scientists, like the Hippocratic Oath which physicians honor...