Legislator Donlan Asks Howe Resign

Representative Edmund J. Donlan of West Roxbury has demanded that Mark A. DeWolfe Howe '28, professor of Law, resign from the Law School so that the public will know "it is not Harvard, but he who advocates civil disobedience."

Donlan made his attack after Howa's debate with Samuel P. Sears concerning the use of the Fifth Amendment. He claimed that if Howe doesn't resign, "Harvard should publicly disavow his utterances."

Howe had said methods of the Congressional investigating committees are "obscene," and that the "infection of McCarthyism" has spread throughout the country.

"If he wishes to broadcast such incendiary doctrines to the world he should resign as a professor," Donlan said.