Mr. James Bryant Conant. President of Harvard University, 100 defended the school's appointment of a Communist and discharge of two Liberals.
He indicated that the naming of Granville Hicks, an avowed Communist, as an extra-curricular tutor and the two-year "concluding appointments" given Mr. Alan R. Sweezy and Mr. Jonh R. Walsh, Liberal economics instructors, would stand despite criticism.
He did not name the three educators, merely referring to them as "certain appointments which have become matters of public discussion."
"European tyranny that has destroyed the independence and integrity of foreign universities came about in the first instance by intimidation and was only later followed by governmental action," he said—United Press.
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