Civil Rights Casualty Of Cold War-Ciardi

"The cold war is the barometer of civil liberties," John Ciardi, Briggs-Copeland Assistant Professor of Composition and Rhetoric, told the audience at a "Civil Libertics" meeting in the Longfellow School last night.

As the cold war gets warmer, there follows a drop of interest in improving social conditions, he claimed; and as it grows cooler, more attention is paid to the civil rights question.

"I don't see how we can think we have done anything for civil liberties with all our welfare contributions and with our defeating of anti-rights bills in state legislatures," he said, "unless we can tie it in with a realistic and coherent view of the relation of these views to our foreign policy."