St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1955-10-14
Fund Board To
Proceed Despite
Collins Criticism

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Directors Of The Fund for the
Republic at its meeting today
considered a statement issued by
Seaborn p. Collins, National
Commander Of the American
Legion, in which he criticized the
aims and work Of the Fund. The
Board is concerned that the Com
mander Of the Legion should be
uisinformed, and should misin-
form others, about the purposes
and program of the Fund.
Since its inception the Board
has regarded the sphere of the
Fund as including the entire field
Of freedom and civil rights and
has taken as its basic charter the
Declaration Of Independence and
the Constitution. From the begin
ming the Board has held that the
major factor affecting civil liber-
ties today is the menace Of COM
munism and communist influence
in this country.
Coupled with this threat is the
grave danger to civil liberties in
methods that may be used to meet
the threat. The Fund has financed
research on large scale into the
extent and nature of the internal
communist menace and it's effect
on our community and institu-
tons. We hope TO make a contri-
button TO the better understanding
Of effective procedures for dealing
with the communist menace while
at the same time strengthening
the American traditions of liberty
and freedom.
The areas on which the Board
has long since decided to concen-
trate its attention are:
/. Restrictions and assaults
upon academic freedom.
2. Due process and equal pro-
lection of the laws.
3. The protection of the rights
OF minorities.
4. Censorship, boycotting and
blacklisting activities by pn-
vate groups.
5. The principle Of guilt by
association and its application
in the United States today.
The Board has steadily pursued
the objects that IL announced at |
the time OF its organization. The
Report of the Fund. which has
been widely circulated since it's |
publication last month, sets forth
in detail the measures that have
been taken by the Board TO effect
its stated purposes.
This Board reaffirms its faith |
in those purposes. II viii continue
TO conduct the educational work in
which II is engaged, on the lines
that II has laid down.
The policies and program of the |
Fund for the Republic were adopt
ed by this Board. The officers of !
the Fund are executing those pol |
cies and that program under the |
of the Board
Chairman, Paul G. Hoffman,
Corp, Los
Calf: Vice Chairman:
George N. Shuster, President, |
Hunter College, New York, N. Y. |
Members OF the board are:
Harry S. Ashmore, Executive Ed
tor, Arkansas Gazette, Little |
Rock, Ark: Chester Bowles, Es-
sex, Conn; Charles w. Cole. |
President, Amherst College, Am
herst, Mass; Arthur II. Dean, At |
torney. Sullivan & Cromwell. New |
York. N. Y; Russell l., Dearmont, !
attorney, st. Louis, Mo: Edwin |
N. Griswold, Dean, Law School of |
Harvard University, Cambridge, |
Mass.
Robert NJ. Hutchins, president. |
The Fund for the Republic, Inc:
William II. Joyce Jr.. Chairman Of |
the Board, Joyce, Inc, Pasadena,
Calf; Meyer Kestnhaum, presi-
dent, Hart, Schaffner and Marx. |
Chicago, H.. NJ Albert Linton, ,
chairman OF the Board. Provident |
Life Insurance Co, Phila-
Pa; John Lord O'Brian, |
attorney. Covington & Burling, !
ID. c.; Jubal r. Par
ten, president, woodley Petroleum |
CO., Houston, Tex.
Elmo Roper Elmo Roper and !
Associates, New York, N. Y:
Mrs. Eleanor b, Stevenson, ODER |
lin. Ohio; Robert f, Sherwood. |
The Playwright's Company, New |
York, n, Y and James u, Zeller- |
bach, president, Crown Zellerbach |
Corp, San. Francisco, Calf.
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