Despite a search the length and breadth of the land, Law School Forum leaders have been unable to find a single speaker who will appear on a Harvard platform to defend the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Hence a Forum scheduled this weekend has been called off because "it is the policy of the Forum to present a completely impartial program."
Forum leaders had already engaged Bartley Crum, San Francisco attorney and defense counsel for several Hollywood writers summoned before the committee recently; but when they tried to find someone who would support the committee's action, they could make no progress.
Could Not Get Committee Men
Among those the Forum contacted were Representatives Thomas, McDowell, and Vail, who are all members of the Un-American Activities Committee. None of them, however, would appear.
Also on the Forum's list were newspapermen Westbrook Pagler, Fulton Lewis Jr., and Raymond Heale; former Senator Philip LaFollette and Representative Mike Monroney, co-authors of the Congressional reorganization bill; and several members of the University faculty, but no one was willing to appear before a Forum audience.
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