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In explaining why the Harvard Law-Grad Democratic Club failed to pay the customary traveling expenses to speaker George Lincoln Rockwell, one member of the club cited that great irresistible, undefinable force: "outside pressure." Others denied any interference and insisted that pressure within the club's own executive committee brought about the refusal to pay Rockwell.
But no explanation can cloud the fact that the club, having agreed to give Rockwell both a small fee and expenses, concluded that a contract with a Nazi was no contract at all. The blame for breaking this contract lies not in the existence of pressure--outside or otherwise--but in the club's inability to resist such pressure once it had formally committed itself.
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