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The "Daily Worker of December l, l9h7 contained an article"Leaders in Arte, Scienes, Ht Pix Purge," stating that 65 leaderssciences and Professions on the previous day had denounced theproducers for their "shocking and degrading capitulaticn to theirresponsible House Comittee o Uh-American Activities" and
film "Moguls" had opened the door to government censorship of
communication.
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industry in this vein included Prof. Robert S Lynd, Columbia
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December 12, 19%? issue entitled "Schools Bar S
This article states that the Board of Superinfurther identified! had announced on the previous that
it intended to eliminate a course for teachers on ture
the Soviet Union. The course, for which teachers receicredit, was sponsored by the American Russian-Institute. No
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the attention of the Bureau a general letter sent out by the
"Commttee for Amesty", dated March 17, 1948; Attached to this
was a booklet, "Still No Amnesty - Half Citizen, "which
report of the President's Amnesty Board_and which in part had a
relative to the FBI being unreliable. The file contains a
of the critical portion of the report relative to the Bureau.
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list of sponsors which included Professor Robert S land
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President Truman and Attorney General Clark the
of the Jefferson School and other educational
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contribution to sanity by the Jefferson School Board,Professor Lyman Bradley, Chairman of the Board, told the
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to the UAMFCIO Educational Conference at the Schroeder
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machinery The three Beuthers-Welter, Roy and Victor-squirmed in their
as land put in a strong plea for a Labor Party; and the delegates loudly
applauded. land said "If labor is to seize the initiative it has to go
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national planning "
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squirming when Lynd told the conference there were two classes in
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The following information was taken from a New York 1-eport;
the same date carried as an enclosure to above letter. .
Helen Merrell Lynd married Robert Staughton Lynd, a
at Columbia University, on September 3, 1921.
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a Trustee of. the Twentieth Century Fund since 1938, and a Fellow
American -Association for the Advancement of Science. The book
Hiddletmm has been greatly praised as a pioneer -work, giving
whole new school of sociological research. ' "
Er. and Hrs. Robert Lynd were among the persons who contributed
to the fund collected for the defense of Clifford T. Hcltvoy, former
Commissioner of Welfare for New York City. This collection was made
the auspices of the New York Conference for Inalienable Rights.
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uoted in the reportznx. 12/23/1.1,. en ork Conference for
Rights."
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the American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born at New Yorkhad se 'This release stated that one hundred prominent Americans
letter to the president urging democratic rights for the
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A entitled "For _!;merica'fs Sake Break_vWith_Franco¢
the Veterans of the. Abraham Briga§!eZ;;&l.i~sted
supporters of the"advertisement
asA bulletin of the __§ommittee on
American7Soviet Friendship was i' Helen Therrell Lynd '
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reected that Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lyn'd registered as voters
Park West, In_l9hh, 19a6, 1947 and 19a8, they'indicated
American Labor Party.- In 1936 they both registered as
major political parties. In 1939 Helen Lynd registered
voter. - '
The Reference Catalog at the New York Public
Helen Lynd was joint author with Robert Staughton Lyndv of ,
study in contemporary Americanculture. NJ. Harcourt Brace and Co. - 1
and "Middletown In Transition", a study in cultural conflicts. N.Y.and Brace Co. - 1937!. - L
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cernlng one Staughton Lynd, who made a speech at a
of the Amer1can Youth for Democracy at Harvard Uni
March of 19h7 This lnformation has been set forth else
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States was in grave danger of destroying its
in Western Europe and South America by inactioyaapproval of pro-Franco efforts in the U. N., The
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Dr Matthews quoted from a document which he iden
second year course in a three year sequence in the
dated september l9h8, published by the University of
and entitled "Social Sciences II-Syllabus and selected
Volume I , Matthews testified "I wish to read a sectio
and ask you to note carefully as I read to determine
or not you think this is pro-Comunist indoctrination.
euote Whatever one may think of the over-all rightness
wrongness of the Soviet Union, the Social scientists cannot' approve the soundness of the social activism it encourages
individuals. A member of the Comunist Party in the USSR
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Party remains the instigating nucleus. As a result,
over half of the entire adult population of the city of
for instance, is estimated to be actively engaged in
of this socially integrative work Children of our Bo
age begin to learn habits of socially d1P¬Cted partic
in the Young Pioneer Organization, while in the late
and early twenties, the Consumoles Jr. party members
undertake such work in earnest. Underlying such acti
the two assumptions that is bar for a culture to
participants to become socially lost in the shuffle
human being has somewhere within him an active or a
interest in something, which, if shared with others,
both him and the culture stronger. To a student 0
Living any such organized effort to build
--»-~ city, or a-collective-drm,_socially
of individuals, stands out in sharp
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their potentialities for group,living, some such_ My
sound selective and organizational program of social a
will have to be adopted and pushed for all it is worth
Whether such a program can be developed within.the devisive
dynamics of private capitalism is another question, unquoteO
Dr. Matthews testified that the material from
which he was quoting was used in a required course for every
person who graduated from the University of Chicago, in the»second year of study. when asked to identify the pages from .
which he was reading he replied that he was reading from l,§*pages 157 and 158, that the context of the passage was ]*"'v
3had as its author, Robert S. Lynd. He stated that the ti
of that section was: The Pattern of American Culture and
Professor Robert S. Lynd was a Professor of Sociology at
Columbia University who had been cited scores of times as a
veteran Communist fellow traveler. Matthews stated that Lynd
was the author of this entire section which begins"on page 12
and goes on to theend of the book, page 18h. According.
Matthews the entire section is a stinging attack upon the
American way of life and the only references to the
are the favorable ones such as he had read. ;
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them are Professor Harlow Shapley, Director of
College Observatory, Rt. Reverend Benjamin D.,Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Portland, Oregon,_ProfesRobert S. Lynd, Columbia University, Reverend_William M.Lampe, General Secretary of the Evangelical and ReformedChurch of Philadelphia, and Reverend W. H. Jernagin of
Fraternal Council of Negro Churches
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