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Mansfield News-Journal Page Four, An Independent Newspaper Friday, December 6, 1957

Odd Background Of 'Impressive Prof'
By Fulton Leiris. Jr.

WASHINGTON — Professor Hugh H. Wilson is an impressive man of about "60, and Professor of Politics at Princeton University.
Because professors in general occupy an awesome if not omniscient position in the minds of their students, I was interested to note that he has associated himself with the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee- He was. indeed, a principal speaker at a recent New York rally sponsored by the group.

The Emergency Civil Liberties Committee has been cited as a subversive organization and Communist front by two committees of the Congress, which only scratches the surface of the professor's affiliations. Yet his students describe him as a fervent American of great patriotism, with a free and open mind, who is willing to be* convinced on any score. To a student mind, this is deeply impressive and adds great weight to the views which the professor now holds. It is an exquisite technique of brain-wash.

PRESENT VIEWS
-Just what those present views represent is demonstrated by the fact that the professor helped to launch the current campaign of the ECLC, ''Operation Abolition." The avowed purpose of it is to discredit J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI and to destroy Congressional investigations of communism and subversive activities. Professor Wilson has explained this connection to his students. He says he and his colleagues have been meticulously careful to keep all Communists out of the organization, and to avoid any possible Implication of serving the Communist cause. He represents the organization, indeed, as anti-comrnunist.

This is interesting in the light of the records of the colleagues. The chairman of ECLC is one Harvey O'Connor-who has been identified In sworn public testimony as a member of the Communist Party, The vice-chairman is Corliss- Lamont, cited as "one of the foremost apologists for the Soviet Union in the United States." The executive director is Clark Foreman, who is cited as: "'. . . for the past decade a leader in a number of pro- Cominunisit organizations." He was founder and president of the notorious Southern Conference on Human Welfare, cited as a Communist front by the House Un-American Activities Committee.
The professor's f e l l o w speaker at the rally was Dalton Trumbo, one of the Hollywood Ten. also identified under oath as a member of the Communist Party. He served time for contempt of Congress.

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But the professor himself has an array of affiliations in his own right. He was reported in the Daily Worker as having signed a telegram, of protest by the American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born (cited by three committees) to the attorney general in connection with deportation proceedings under the McCarran Immigration Act. The Daily Worker also listed him as one of the signers of "'statement of principles for "the defense of democracy against McCarthyism."* This -urged the abolition of the attorney general's list of communist and subversive organizations, and amnesty for those in jail on charges of "conspiracy to teach and advocate"' t h e i r "political views." This representation of the communist conspiracy as a '•political view"' Is a standard cliche of the Communist Party line. Another Daily Worker news item, lists professor Wilson as one of a group who signed an. open letter to President Eisenhower, urging him to grant amnesty "to the political prisoners convicted under the Smith Act.'" There is a long additional list, which I shall be delighted to furnish upon request. Princeton alumni could we" be interested.

SBD