Schlesinger Cites Reds' Aid to McCarthy

"At the same time some of us were alerting the American people to the danger of Communism, McCarthy was accepting Communist support against Bob LaFollette in Wisconsin," Associate Professor of History Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38 said yesterday in response to an attack by the junior senator.

"I'm not upset by these slanders," Schlesinger told the CRIMSON, "but I do get annoyed when people like McCarthy try to call me a Communist. Anyone who has read any of my books knows that I've been a Red-baiter from way back."

Schlesinger cited his book "The Vital Center," published in 1949, and an article in Life Magazine in 1946 as works of his which "exposed and indicted the Communist conspiracy in the United States."

He accused McCarthy of dropping the key phrase "so long as they do not disqualify themselves by intellectual dissentions" from a Schlesinger article defending the use of Communist teachers.

Meanwhile, Edward Schlesinger '56 squelched attempts yesterday to get all college political clubs to endorse a statement upholding Schlesinger and MacLeish and denouncing McCarthy's "irresponsible smear" of them.

"While we do not agree with McCarthy's methods," Schroeder said, "it is not our function to oppose any candidate of our party."

Phillipe Villiers-Allerand '55, sponsor of the resolution, said he had secured support from leaders of the other college political groups but that "the resolution would be ineffective if it were not bipartisan." Villiers' resolution accused McCarthy of "unfairness, vagueness, and distortion of statements" in his attack on the Harvard professors