Veritas Speakers Warn College on 'Infiltration'

Speaking last night on "Academic Freedom and the Stated Objectives of the Veritas Foundation," Colonel Laurence E. Bunker '26, ranged from "professors who spread the Communist line--often combined with a charming humanitarianism--without tagging it as such," to "the total warefare--economic, cultural, psychological--today being waged by the Communist conspiracy."

Though the program was originally planned as a forum including two faculty members, explained Eliot D. Bernat '60, President of the sponsoring Harvard Eisenhower Club, all those who were asked declined for lack of time, information, interest, or desire to go on the stage with "crackpots."

Bunker Attacks

On specific University issues, Bunker:

*charged that "Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. has no place on the Harvard faculty because of his lack of personal integrity in writing on the Sacco-Vanzetti case";

*attacked "use of the University's prestige to rehabilitate discredited public figures--such as Oppenheimer--by inviting them to lecture, or awarding them honorary degrees";

*accused Ralph Bunche, now a candidate for the Board of Overseers, of "advancing again and again over the last 23 years the Communist party line." Recalling the aphorism that "birds of a feather flock together," Bunker said Bunche was "one of the small handful of persons who initiated and organized the National Negro Congress,...a carefully planned maneuver of the Kremlin."

Bunker further pointed out that Bunche had, according to a Senate probe, "repeatedly pressured persons in charge of UN employment to hire a notorious Communist agent." Another member of the Veritas Committee, Kenneth D. Robertson '29, said there is "no question" that the loyalty board which cleared Bunche of subversive charges was "the object of intense Communist pressure."