BOARD or DIPECTORS Ernest Angell Mrs. Katrina McCormick Barnes Mrs. Dorothy Dunbar Bromley Ear! Brown Richard S. Childs Norman Cousins “dv J. Ennis Ernst vom. —_ Finerty H. William Fitelson James Lawrence Fly Osmond K, Fraenkel Walter Frank Varian Fry Lewis Galantiere Walter Gellhorn Arthur Garfield Hays Rey. John Haynes Holmes B. W. Huebsch John Jessup Rev. John Paul Jones Dorothy Kenyon James Kerney, Jr. Herbert R. Northrup Elmer Rice Telford Taylor Norman Thomas J. Waties Waring Willlam L. White C. Dickerman Williams NATIONAL COMMITTEE Sadie Alexander Thurman Arnold Bishop James Chamberlain Baker Roger N. Baldwin Alan Barth Francis Biddle Prof. Julian P. Boyd Van Wyck Brooks Pearl S. Buck Vice Chairman Prof, James R. Caldwell Dr. Henry Seidel Canby Prof. Robert K. Carr Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers Stuart Chase Grenviile Clark Prof. Henry Steele Commager Morris L. Cooke Prof, Albert Sprague Coolidge Prof. George S, Counts Prof. Robert E. Cushman El-ar Davis J, Frank Dobie . 7h Douglas Dr. Frederick May Eltot Prof. Thomas H. Eliot Walter T. Fisher Rav. Harry Emerson Fosdick Lloyd K. Garrison Vice Chairman Prof. Willard E. Goslin Dr. Frank P. Graham Vice Chairman Prof. Abram L. Harrls Ear! G. Harrison Prof. Quincy Howe Palmer Hoyt Dr. Robert M. Hutchins Dr. Charles S. Johnson Gerald Johnson Dr. Mordecai W. Johnson Dr. Percy L. Julian Benjamin H. Kizer Dr. John A. Lap Prof, Harold D. Lasswell Mrs. Agnes Brown Leach Max Lerner Prof. Robert S, Lynd Prof. Archibald MacLeish E. B. MacNaughton John P. Marquand Mike Masaoka Prof. Robert E. Mathews Dr. Millicent C. McIntosh Dr, Alexander Meiklejohn Dr, Karl Menninger Donald R. Murphy Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam Rt. Rev. Edward L. Parsons Vice Chairman James G. Patton A. Philip Rando!ph Elmo Roper Morris Rubin John Nevin Sayre Rt. Rev. William Scarlett Prof. Arthur M, Schlesinger, Jr. Joseph Schlossberg Robert E. Sherwood "ian E. Smith Edward J. Sparling 4. George R. Stewart Mrs. Dorothy Tilly Prof. Edward C. Tolman Willlam W. Waymack Aubrey Williams Dr. William Lindsay Young Dean Benjamin Youngdahi AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION 170 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK 10, N. Y. Founded 1920 ORegon 5.5990 Incorporated Ernest Angell Edward J. Ennis Morris L. Ernst Katrina McCormick Barnes B. W. Huebsch Chairman, Board of Directors Vice Chairman Arthur Garfield Hays Secretary Treasurer General Counsel Patrick Murphy Malin, Executive Director Alan Reitman, Assistant Director Irving Ferman, Washington Office Director Jeffrey E. Fuller, Assistant Director Louis Joughin, Research Director Herbert Monte Levy, Staff Counsel Roger N. Baldwin, Adviser, International Work Margret R. Bloomer, Administrative Assistant Marie H. Runyon, Membership Secretary January 14, 1955 Professor Joshua Lederberg Department of Genetics The University of Wisconsin Madison 6, Wisconsin Dear Professor Lederberg: Thank you for your letter of January 8. The attached copy of a letter to Mr. Plumb of The New York Times indicates the action we have taken. Sincerely yours, Low Sd Louis Joughin Research Director Mejor Local ACLU Organizations in Nineteen Areas of Sixteen States Be 347