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HUPD Chief Says Harvard Yard Encampment is Peaceful, Defends Students’ Right to Protest
Yard Police Chief Alvin R. Randall waited in vain yesterday afternoon for a student demonstration to develop around the Hotel Commander in protest of the management's decision to bar a pro-Russian Armenian dinner of 800.
The Armenians has asked rooms for a farewell affair to wish voyage to several who had renounced their American citizenship and were bound for the Soviet Union. "It's a question of Americanism, a principle at stake," said an official last night in rejecting the request.
Randall was dispatched to his post, the Hotel staff said, after Aldrich Durant '04, business manger of the University, had telephoned the day clerk that he feared students might clash with a scheduled AmVets picket.
Only the veterans' organization appeared, in the late afternoon with a sound truck asking all citizenry within hearing to "send the Reds back to Russia."
Harvard Youth for Democracy secretary Sydney V. James '50, and Liberal Union Chairman Frederic D. Houghteling denied this morning that their organizations had made any demonstration plans.
Houghteling, however, disparaged what he formed "the hysterical attitude" of the Commander officials.
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