H. L. U. Forced Protest Communist Ballot-Cut

In protest against two bills recently introduced in the Massachusetts Legislature favoring the removal from the ballot of the Communist Party and any other groups advocating forceful overthrow of the government, the legislative committee of the Harvard Liberal Union sent a delegation to the Assembly yesterday.

Directing its objections primarily against the bill barring the Communist Party, which has been sponsored by the American Legion, the Liberal Union delegation joined several other protesting groups including the League of Women Voters, the Civil Liberties Union, the Communist and Socialist parties, and Labor's Non-Partisan League.

Louis H. Pollak '44 said in a statement released by the delegation last night, "This bill is designed to protect out citizenry from 'un-American' doctrines by barring the Communist Party from the ballot. But is not the very basis of democracy the belief that no ideal is absolute, and no body of men capable of absolute definition of Americanism!