Sears Restates Objections to Fraenkel Talk

In a letter to the Boston Heraid, Samuel P. Sears '17, president of the Massachusetts Bar Association yesterday closed the incident he opened in a letter to Dean Griswold of the Law School ten days ago.

Restating his position Sears maintained: "I object . . . to Harvard's permitting the use of its facilities to lend prestige to a Communist front organization or its representatives.

"It does not necessarily follow that a refusal to lend aid to the spread of Communist propaganda is a suppression of freedom of speech and thought.

"I am not opposed to a 'free flow of ideas' and agree . . . that 'even the most extreme ideas should not be excluded from discussion.' I believe that Mr. Fraenkel has a right to express publicly his opinions."

Sears' letter to Griswold objected to the University's permitting Osmond K. Fraenkel '08, vice-president of the National Lawyers Guild, to speak at the Law School. Sears pointed to the report of the House Un-American Activities Committee which called the National Guild "the foremost bulwark of the Communist party."

He charged that the University should not play host to the alleged Communists.