Abstract

Editorials

This article focuses on the politics and government of the U.S. It was certain that the attack on free schools should eventually be directed at a college. The attack follows the familiar pattern of the razzle-dazzle campaigns launched against the public schools in Pasadena, California, Englewood, New Jersey, and a score of other communities since 1949. Charges are irresponsibly aired; then a local group demands, under direct threat of financial reprisal, that the institution deliver up certain heretics; finally to give the campaign meaning. An investigation of blacklisting practices in the radio and television industries by the Federal Communications Commission was proposed on December 1, 1951. Author's League of America has instructed its president, Rex Stout, to ask the commission for a hearing on the blacklisting of writers and others by radio and television licensees.