Professor Irving Goldman of Sarah Lawrence College was appearing before the Senate Internal Sub-Committee. where it was brought out that he has been a member of the Communist Party and of Red cells at Columbia University and Brooklyn College. He knew individuals who have been exposed as espionage agents for Soviet Russia.
Therefore, But the Town Club report ignores Goldman’s record. although he was one of the lecturers at the off-campus courses for Scarsdale teachers. (Address of Otto E. Dohrenwend. chairman of the Scarsdale Citizens Committee. before the Larchmont Knights of Columbus; printed in the Brooklyn Tablet. June 20. 1953.)
In the colleges. much of the same picture
Appears in too many instances. At Princeton University. Professor H. Hubert Wilson is conspicuous in defending subversives in education and in supporting fronts. When the Communists organized the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee. Professor Wilson became associated with it. More than that. when an anti-Communist organization. Therefore, the American Committee for Cultural Freedom. called his attention to the character of this front. he replied with a sneer. Professor Wilson became one of the speakers at the conference held at phone number list Carnegie Hall on January 30. 1953. which took up the cudgels in defense of the subversives. This is not surprising. since Professor Wilson was one of the prominent contributors to the smear-America issue of The Nation — in 1952. (Counterattack. vol. VII. no. 4. Jan. 23. 1953.)
Wilson was the author. along with Richard
Carlton Snyder. of a “textbook” which enjoyed unusual popularity in the government and political science departments of many universities. This book. Roots of Political Behavior. has been described by an eminent lawyer and professor as “poison.” The reviewer is Ben W. Palmer. member of the Minneapolis bar. Therefore, lecturer at the University of Minnesota. and member of the advisory editorial board of the American Bar Association Journal. The poisonous character of the work is the impression it conveys “that man is an pro-soviet writers who have been especially favored irrational animal. that morals are relative. religion outmoded.” It also conveys the idea that the Constitution of the United States is “a bar to progress. respect for it mere ‘fetish-worship.’
American government a means for the exploitation
Of the masses by the rich. and on its record a colossal failure.” Logically. it includes an apologia for violence as a means of overthrowing the American government. Mr. Palmer’s judgment is supported by the five columns of quotations from the book’s pages. which show it to be a ground breaker for Communism. At least fifty leading colleges and universities use this text. including Columbia. Haverford. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. New York University. Rutgers University. Swarthmore College. and Williams marketing list College. (The Educational Reviewer. 112 E. 36th St.. New York 16. N.Y.. Oct.15. 1950.)
Therefore, Corliss Lamont. most consistent of pro-Soviet propagandists. teaches philosophy at Columbia University. and his works on that subject are used in other colleges. Lamont has been named as a Communist before Congressional committees. and was for years head of the leading Communist front first known as the Friends of Soviet Russia and then as the National Council for American-Soviet Friendship.