Czech Fall Hit By Professors

Just because we cannot accept the obligation to guarantee freedom everywhere in the world, we should not abandon the ideal of freedom, McGeorge Bundy, associate professor of Government told a meeting of the U.N. Council of Harvard last night.

The meeting was called at the request of the State Department to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the Prague students protest against the Communist seizure of Czechoslovakia.

Bruce Hopper '24, associate professor of Government, observed that the meeting itself was part of the State Department's program of psychological warfare. "We can never out-lie the Bolshevists," Hopper said. "This is the era of the big But as soon as we fight on the same basis (of rewritten history), we have lost the fight."

Conant Statement Read

President Conant, in a statement read in his absence said, "We would do well to remember that until Czechoslovakia felt it could be argued that a healthy alliance between Communists and friends of freedom was possible: after the events of four years ago, it was clear to all, except those who refused to hear, that such an alliance meant the kiss of death those who valued human liberty."

Guy Pauker, a teaching fellow in Government, who left his home in Rumania in October, 1947, told the gathering some of his personal experiences with the Communists. After the speeches, a young Crech from the audience gave an eyewitness account of the actual student protest.