(The editors of national review asked Mr. Bozell to determine why Professor Herbert Fuchs was dismissed by The American University in Washington. The review does not question the right of the private college to hire and fire according to its own lights, and with a view to the corporate educational intentions of the institution. The editors wanted to report on whether Professor Fuchs’ cooperation with a congressional committee investigating Communism resulted in academic retaliation, or whether he was let go merely because he had once been a Communist, or whether he was dismissed for other reasons, of no concern to our readers. Mr. Bozell submitted the following report. He showed it, first, to Mr. Anderson, president of the University, who had been kind enough to go over the Fuchs case with him. Mr. Anderson hotly resisted the conclusions Mr. Bozell arrived at and asked that we publish his dissent along with Mr. Bozell’s article. We do this gladly. We publish, also, Mr. Bozell’s comments on Mr. Anderson’s objections.)
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