Evening star., 1952-11-30

ate Internal Security subcommit.
tee said yesterday that propagan.
dists for disloyalty nests of Com.
munists" exist in many college.
and secondary schools in thi.
country.
Senator McCarran made the
statement in releasing the printed
record of the subcommittee's hear.
ings into subversive influences ir
the Nations educational system.
The hearings revealed testimony
by DR.. Bella Dodd of New York
an admitted former Communist
that there have been as many a:
$500 Communists teaching in the
United States at all levels, bott
public and private schools.
Though this number may not
seem large in comparison with
the million teachers employed ir
the schools" Senator McCarrar
said "the nature of Communist
Party operations makes them as
dangerous as a lighted match ir
a powder magazine"
Describes Party Line.
He cited the testimony Of DR.
Dodd, who was for several years
a legislative representative in
New York of the Teachers Union
to support his statement of the
dangers of even a small number OF
Communists in the educational
system.
Mrs. Dodd told the subcom-
mittee during series of New
York hearings:
I" If you have one Commu-
mist on a campus, or one Com
munist in an organization, that
person is dedicated to building 9
unit and unit consists Of a min
imum of three persons a Com
munist tries to take the party
line into his various organiza-
tions, whatever clubs he belongs
to and tries to find others who
are sympathetic with him.
IF he finds that some people
are being abused. Disseminated
against, some people are unhappy,
he fastens himself on them and
pretty soon has them functioning
with him"
VIII Continue Campaign.
Senator McCarran said the SUBJ
committee, a unit of the Senate
Judiciary Committee. does not
propose to dictate to state and
college authorities how they shall
run their schools or whom they
shall hire.
But the committee has a man
date from the Congress to expose
Communists and other subversives
wherever they may appear" he
added, "and We shall continue to
carry out those instructions.
ut is obvious from our hearings
that nests of Communists exist
not only in the secondary schools
but in many colleges. We cannot,
nor do We desire, to dictate the
thinking Of any persons but we
can show what course that think
ing takes and we must warn
Sives."
Howard is Mentioned.
Mrs. Dodd testified that Com.
munist Party units operated al
the following colleges: Columbis
University. Long Island Uniyer-
sity, New York University, Vassa,
College. Smith College, Wellesley
College. Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Tech.
nology. University of Michigan
Chicago University, Northwestern
University, University of Califor.
mia, University of Minnesota ano
Howard University.
Dean William Stuart Nelson o1
Howard declined to comment or
the Dodd testimony.
At Wellesley College, according
to the Associated Press, President
Margaret Clapp said:
when we read in the news.
papers in September of Miss
Dodd's testimony we could moi
comment on it in more than gen.
eral terms because she gave M
dates and no names of individ.
uals-in short made no specific
charges.
For the same reason we can
not refute it in detail now.
I'VE can say that we know OF
no Communist unit operating on
the campus and we are satisfied
that no member of the Wellesley
faculty has used his classroom
or his opportunity to know stu.
dents for the purpose of indoctri-
mating Communist Party princi-
pies or the party line of the
Cominform."
No known vasSar "Cells."
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