Aptheker Clashes With Schlesinger

Genuine believers in free institutions must be anti-Communists, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, associate professor of History, said last night at a John Reed Club debate which overflowed Emerson D.

Opposing Schlesinger in the discussion, entitled "The Center and the Left," Herbert Aptheker, associate editor of "Masses and Mainstream," charged that the "vital center" of which Schlesinger is a proponent, "only maintains what exists, namely monopoly capitalism." He called for a unity among all non-conservatives "so that a war against Fascism and capitalism can and must be successful."