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Debate teams argued in Providence and Cambridge last night in an Ivy League contest with Brown on the question: "Resolved, That the Communist Party should be outlawed." The traveling due supported the negative and won a unanimous decision, and the home team upheld the affirmative but lost its argument.
Melvin L. Zurier '50 and Jerome B. Spunt '50 worked together at Brown to disprove the feasibility of outlawing the party. They held that the action would be bad for the country on legal, practical, and moral grounds.
Would Violate Constitution
"It is unconstitutional, it wouldn't work, and it would refute the ideals which we claim to stand for," they said. "Our courts have a policy that a person is innocent until proven guilty. Why should we mock this policy by condemning a party because of its ideals?"
Arguing with a traveling Brown team in the Eliot Junior Common Room, the Crimson's Arthur W. Purcell '50 and Peter H. Clayton '50 lost the first debate for the Council in eight meetings.
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