Harvard. Yale. the University of Chicago. New York University. There was also a considerable representation on smaller faculties. In addition to the Communists who are members of fronts. There are substantial cells of less well-known teachers and professors. not only at such places as the University of Illinois. But also at Smith. Bryn Mawr. Vassar. Sarah Lawrence. Cornell. Brooklyn Polytechnic. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Boston University. and Haverford.
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For a number of years. cells have existed among librarians. and the in the American Library Association. At the local level. The big effort is to get the works of concealed Communists into the libraries. and if at all possible to have them placed on the required. Or recommended reading lists. There are several objectives in this maneuver other than the effect the books themselves (apparently non-Communist in character. But many slanted in a Communist direction) will have on the students. The Soviet fifth column is keenly aware of the value of prestige. of getting its concealed members recognized as “authorities.”
Bitter an anti-American and disciple
Stalin as Howard Fast does not do damage solely through his books. When he is recommended to students as an authority on American history. as has been done in a great number of school libraries throughout America. the Communists can count on a certain sympathy for his views when he defiantly tells Congress in effect that he will not phone number list fight the Chinese Communists even if drafted. His works in themselves are carefully prepared to lead the immature mind to a pro-Stalinite position. or at least to the point where he will be an easy victim of the Communist line.
Yt. on June 20. 1953. Otto E. Dobrenwend. chairman of the Scarsdale Citizens Committee. which has been opposing Red penetration of the schools in that community. could report: “Howard Fast’s books. earlier this year. were banned from the resounding victory over bulls levels playoff series libraries of information centers of the State Department throughout the world . . . But. believe it or not. a book by this Communist is still recommended reading in the tenth grade of the Scarsdale High School.”
Langston Hughes. the Negro poet
Who had been a member of eighty-five Communist fronts. finally agreed before the Senate Permanent Investigations Committee headed by Senator Joseph R. McCarthy that none of his works written in his “pro-Communist period” should marketing list be read or studied. And yet. those works have been widely promoted by concealed Communists and have been kept on the shelves of school libraries in many cities. The whole school of “Far Eastern experts.” who betrayed the United States into a Chinese policy that has led to bloody Korea. are still popular as school references.