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John T. Flynn, writer-economist and critic of the past Democratic administrations, challenged President Conant's appointment as German High Commissioner yesterday before a closed hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Senate majority leader Robert A. Taft remarked that Flynn "made a good case" against the selection. He added, however, that the committee, in all probability would approve Conant's nomination.
Committee chairman Alexander Wiley (R.-Wis.) reported that Flynn based his opposition on five issues: Conant's alleged support of a "dismantle German industry" plan, his advocacy of a radical party in 1943, laxity toward possible subversives at Harvard, probable poor reception of Conant in Germany, and Conant's attack on private schools as "divisive."
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