Robertson Plans Anti 'Subversive' Story in Bulletin

An alumni committee--self designated to protect Harvard from Communism--plans to write a story for a near issue of the Alumni Bulletin, Kenneth D. Robertson, Jr. '29 said last night.

Robertson is one of the organizers of the group, which plans to solicit alumni representation and backing until it can influence University policy on what it believes are "subversives" at Harvard.

The original seven members have met several times and plan to organize as a non-profit group designed to weed Communism out of Harvard. Robertson refused to comment on any of its program and policies.

"I'm sorry, but we're just not ready yet for any announcement," Robertson said last night. "But we ought to have something within the next three weeks."

It is believed, however, that the group will probably urge alumni not to give gifts to their class drives this year, in protest of the College's handling of professors who have invoked the Fifth Amendment.

May Try Coercion

"We'd like to use persuasion first, but if necessary we'll have to try coercion, and the best way we can do that is to try and stop the alumni gifts," Douglas Lawson '13, an alumnus who plans to work with Robertson, said last night.

Lawson added that he had not attended any of the meetings, but said that he would probably go to the next one. He said his primary concern in the movement would be to make the administration more concerned about the student and less about academic freedom for the professor.

Last spring, Robertson, an outspoken critic of the faculty, wrote a letter to every member of the Class of '29, soliciting contributions for a special fund to be given to the University on the condition that it rout out "subversive" professors here.