Sweezy Plea Denied

The New Hampshire Supreme Court yesterday denied Paul M. Sweezy '31, former instructor in Economics, a reconsideration of a previous ruling upholding his contempt conviction. Sweezy had refused to answer questions in a New Hampshire state investigation of Communism.

Sweezy declared that he had never been a Communist and claimed that the questions violated his rights to freedom of speech under the Fifth Amendment. He had been asked about a lecture he gave in 1954 at U.N.H.