The AAUP States Its Position on Fifth Amendment Teachers
On June 8, 1949, the National Education Association issued a formal statement to the effect that members of the Communist Party are unfit to teach. The statement performed at best a ceremonial function. It more or less formally ushered in an era which, I believe, will prove to have been one of the shortest eras ever ushered in. It is on its last legs. It was —again, ceremonially—more or less ushered out on March 21 of this year, in the report of a special committee of the powerful American Association of University Professors which hints that Mere Membership in the Communist Party is not grounds for automatic expulsion.
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