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Frederick J. Willman '56, retiring president, urged the Club to direct its efforts toward reform within the Massachusetts Democratic Party...
...difficult to conform to an illiberal state organization, but at the same time, we have an obligation to the national Democratic Party to sustain its tradition of classless liberalism that has attracted independent voters as well as Democrats," Willman said...
Murphy, who is minority leader of the State House of Representatives, had been scheduled to speak at the forum, devoted to a discussion of "Democratic Prospects for 1954," along with Schlesinger and State Senator Mario Umana '36. Umana attended, but Democratic campaign headquarters told Young Democrats' President Frederick J. Willman '56 yesterday morning that previously arranged engagements would prevent Murphy from appearing...
Despite his failure to persuade Murphy to appear, Willman himself and two of Murphy's campaign aides denied that the candidate's failure to attend the meeting was related to Schlesinger's role on the program. "I absolutely deny this," Willman said. "Furthermore, the reason that Murphy wouldn't appear because of Schlesinger seems to me foolish, since both Schlesinger and Murphy have expressed loyalty to the principles of liberalism that are the basis of the philosophy of the Democratic party...
Frederick J. Willman '56, president of the HYDC, announced that since his group was already fully committed to the Democratic candidates, it could not even consider the HLU proposal. "The Young Democrats are acting on their own this year," he said. As a partisan group they would lose their state charter were they to support a candidate who was not backed by the Democratic party in Massachusetts...