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Show , Academic Phobia j By DR. ALFRED P. HAAKE (EDITOR'S NOTE: Alfred P. Haake, Ph.D., Mayor of Park Ridge, Illinois, is a noted Economist, Econ-omist, Business Consultant, Lecturer Lec-turer and Author.) I Most of us believe in "Academic "Aca-demic Freedom," the right of ' educators to free and open research re-search and the no less important right to speak their piece when they see fit or find it necessary. But, it certainly does not include in-clude the right to determine the foreign policy lor our country, or to decide for millions of citizens citi-zens what is best for them. When that happens, "freedom" becomes "phobia." f"Academic freedom" helped give us the atomic bomb, and it seems to be "academic phobia" pho-bia" that may have given it away to Russia; thereby taking away from the American people their principal guarantee for peace. Let's name names. Professor Philip D. Morrison, physicist at Cornell University, one of our great schools, is alleged to have stated in a pubUc meeting that he was glad Russia had the atomic bomb, for possession cf the atomic bomb b y Russia would prevent America from attacking at-tacking Stalin's Russia. Put another an-other way, it could mean Mr. Morrison believes, now that Russ;a has the bomb, we will be afraid to start war against Russia. The record shows that the United States has been among the best behaved of nations in international relations. We don't start world wars. We wait until we are attacked, even though so waiting' greatly increases the cost of the war and actually jeopardizes our chances of winning. win-ning. We could have acted more wisely with respect to Japan by attacking her a few years ago, just as Japan had earlier attacked at-tacked Russia without warning and destroyed the Russian navy before the country Hnew that there was a war. But, we don't fight that way, and Professor Morison ought to have learned that fact along with his physics. Another physicist who believed be-lieved that Russia should have the atomic bomb was Dr. Alan Munn May, now in a British prison for having stolen atomic secrets and delivering them to the Russian government. D r. May was sent by the British government to Canada. He did atomic work there and also at the University of Chicago. He was apparently secretly a communist com-munist and stole some of the precious uranium, which was flown by a member of the Soviet So-viet embassy in Canada to Moscow. Mos-cow. We should not tolerate that kind of disloyalty, in academic or any other high Place, any more that w should stand for 't in the smoke-filled rooms of underground conspirators. Both 1 lead to the same end result; I both should be discouraged effectively ef-fectively and early. Professor Morrison could well receive the active and earnest attention of the F.B.I. In the judgment of this writes, it would be energy well expended in behalf of our country. Cornell University authorities might well take steps against the possibility of undue encouragement encour-agement for the friends of Russia Rus-sia who are enemies of the United Unit-ed States, using their own judgment judg-ment as to what measures should be taken. Professor Morrison has made i no secret of his interest in and i f: iendship for Russia. It is re-I re-I ported he is connected with a number of communist fronts, I such as Progressive Citizens oi America, Committee of 1,000, Wallace-for-President committee, National Council of Arts. Sciences Sci-ences and Professions, and National Na-tional Non-Partisan Committee to Defend the 12 Communist Leaders, who recently were found guilty of, conspiring to use force to overthrow our gov ernment. This writer has said frequent- ly and publicly, that the ra! menace to America is not nearly so much the open and avowed communist, as are the apparently apparent-ly respectable people w!,.o. innocently in-nocently or otherwise, espouse movements and s"noort m ures which must ultimately led this country into collectivirm and dest-ov our freom. Th cloak of humanitarianism, culture, cul-ture, education and even reH-gion reH-gion is used freely bv the mm-munist mm-munist and his sympathizer- 1o lead the emotional and sympathetic sympa-thetic American public down the by-wavs of "svmoathy for the down-trodden" toward measures meas-ures that wo'dd destov the "down-trodden" along with the rest of us. The fifth col"mn thrives in America, and its votaries, in-eluding in-eluding tho;r ignorant of the use? to which thfv ap nut. makes progress steadily. That is another reason why the protective protec-tive cloak nf "a"adnvc frp-r'om" frp-r'om" should be ripoed from thp shoulders of professors and others, oth-ers, who by ut-'rance or act or both, give comfort and assistance assist-ance tr our arch enemy eol-'ectivisfn. |