Yale Opens Gates to Browder As Seymour Gives Permission

Yale University yesterday granted permission to the Yale Peace Council to have Earl Browder, Federally indicted Communist leader, speak next Tuesday in one of its buildings.

Princeton joined Harvard in refusing to have Browder speak because he is "under indictment for a criminal offense against the laws of the United States," in a statement released on Wednesday night. Yesterday Dartmouth sided with the banners, when its Central Lecture Committee refused permission to a group of petitioning student organizations to use a lecture room for the Browder speech.

At Hanover, the Daily Dartmouth, undergraduate newspaper, announced that it had invited Browder to speak at a meeting sponsored by the paper as soon as the speakers committee's decision had been made public. The meeting can be held only if its is approved by the college's Committee on Student Organizations. The paper itself is controlled by a board composed of faculty and student members, with the latter in the majority.

John Reed Society Comments

Commenting on President Charles A. Seymour's statement giving the Yale Peace Council the right to use a college hall for its meeting. Robert H. Seidman '41, president of the John Reed Society, Browder's sponsors here, made the following statement:

"In giving Mr. Browder permission to speak the Yale administration has reaffirmed that belief in academic freedom which characterizes the liberal university. It is a pity that Harvard has fallen so far behind her traditional rival."

Princeton officials used the same arguments advanced by Jerome D. Greene, '96, Secretary to the Corporation, and later affirmed by the President and Fellows, in its refusal to allow the Whig-Cliosophic Society to sponsor a talk by Browder.

Conard Siepp, secretary of the Yale Peace Council, said that Browder was being invited to speak at Yale because his civil liberties have been attacked by the other two members of the collegiate Big Three, according to the United Press.