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Demanding that the government "be fair and open with its citizens," Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and director of the College Observatory struck at at "witch-hunting" tactics of the Congressional Committee on Un-American Activities and President Truman's proposed program for aid to Greece Square Garden last Monday evening in New York...
...such notorious Communist fronts as the National Committee to Win the Peace.* Probably it would also catch the pink-tea groups, like the Congress of American Women and the Council for Pan-American Democracy. In the last analysis, if the U.S. was to have real security and no witch hunts, everything would depend upon the men running the machinery, and how they interpreted their instructions...
...Arizona with fellow surrealist Dorothea Tanning-his fourth wife-looking at the desert to get ideas for painting the sea. Like Lewis Carroll's Father William, Ernst has a limited stock of answers for those who question his strange ways. He feels sure he could never abandon his witch-doctor's approach to painting even if he wanted to. "One always meets one's self again," he says. "Evolution in art does not go straight; it goes in circles. I have seen this in my own work...
...order is couched in stark terms of treason and sedition and proposes to weed out the disloyal elements in the Civil Service. Hopefully flavored with the axiom that all the men serving a government must be faithful, the current tests seem to be the product of a bitter witch hunt rather than the outgrowth of natural security measures...
...General and his advisers. Unless the government exercises the utmost moderation in the execution of the loyalty tests, the abuses inherent in the plan will go far to destroy an ideology while trying to protect it. Before the Attorney-General unwittingly sets off a modern version of the Salem witch hunts, he would do well to consider the fiasco that culminated in the Sacco-Vanzetti case after the first World...