Four Ask Inquiry Of McCarran Act

Four faculty speakers agreed last night that the Cambridge Chapter of Americans for Democratic Action should endorse a suggestion that a committee of five prominent men be formed to investigate the McCarran Bill.

The suggestion, first printed in the

In discussing the bill both Samuel H. Beer, associate professor of Gernment, and Robert McCloskey, assistant professor of Government, said the classes dealing with members of Communist front groups provided excessive punishment. Other speakers were Mark DeWolfo Howe '28, professor, of Law, and Albert Sprague Coolidge '15, lecturer in Chemistry and chairman of the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union.