Dr. Mather Disagrees - Charges by Middletown patriotic groups that Dr. Kirtley F. Mather has been affiliated with over “40 Communist front organizations” were described yesterday by the Harvard professor as based, in general, on “erroneous” sources or on activites of which he is “extremely proud" to be a part. Dr. Mather’s remarks came in a private conversation two hours before he participated in an afternoon symposium at Western College. During the later session, Dr. Mather told his audience that blacklists of “allegedly subversive” organizations were “circulated by local protective associations as part of a well-calculated campaign to paralyze American thoughts.” Included in the geology professor’s audience were four representatives of Middletown's Protect America League and the Americanism committee of American Legion Post 218. Before the meeting, they had distributed mimeographed sheets that outlined Dr. Mather’s alleged link with subversive organizations...

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