NCC Minority Charges HCL With Interference

Kenneth E. Thompson '57, president of the Conservative League, admitted last night that he had sent a letter to Rep. Harold H. Velde (R.-III.) concerning his scheduled New Conservative Club talk in October. But he said he did not ask Velde not to appear. This was the only letter the HCL sent, Thompson stated.

"I told him that there were two conservative clubs on campus," Thompson said, "and that the NCC had passed a resolution last spring against certain Congressional investigating committees."

The former chairman of the House Un American Activities Committee answered the letter by telegram, Thompson added, "but it was delivered to William C. Brady, president of the NCC, by 'mistake.'" Brady brought the incident to the attention of the Deans, Thompson said, and they told him they frowned upon this inter-club rivalry.

The NCC resolution passed last spring read in part: "We uphold Congressional investigating committees as such, but oppose their deviation from their just course." This was interpreted as aimed particularly at the McCarthy Investigating Committee.

Under the proposed merger, this resolution would remain valid, along with the NCC Constitution and by-laws.