Professors Here Back Move to Bypass Nixon

Five Summer School professors agreed last night with Harold Stassen's suggestion that Vice-President Richard Nixon should be removed as President Eisenhower's running mate in the coming election.

All five felt that Nixon was not vice-presidential material and that his presence on the Republican ticket would damage the G.O.P.'s chances in November. They were not, however, unanimous in endorsing the candidacy of Massachusetts Governor Christian A. Herter '14 who was recommended by Stassen.

Robert G. McCloskey, associate professor of Government at Harvard, claimed that "it is a commonplace political observation that Nixon would not help the Republican ticket." He felt that a fight over the vice-presidential candidate "would show that some people are thinking and that Nixon is not quite vice-presidential material."

McCloskey was not certain that such a contest would develop, but he pointed out that if one did, it could hurt the Republicans only if Nixon won out.

Louis Hartz '40, associate professor of Government at Harvard, and Hans Kohn, professor of History at C.C.N.Y., both backed Stassen's proposal. They agreed that an Eisenhower-Herter ticket would carry with it more House and Senate seats than one where Nixon was the running mate, and to this extent would improve the overall Republican outlook.

Professor Denis W. Brogan of Cambridge University stated the British position on the coming election in America by suggesting that most Englishmen don't know much at all about Nixon. He indicated, however, that if they did know much about him, they wouldn't like him.

The opinion given by Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government at Harvard, tended away from the position held by Hartz and Kohn. Beer, who personally "abhors" the idea of being governed by Nixon if he should succeed to the presidency, believed that a ticket with Nixon would be a balanced one.