“With the facts distorted or withheld, a Hitler or a Mussolini is able to take from his people what a regiment could not hope to,” declared Arthur hays Sulzberger, vice-president and director of the New York Times, at the Columbia University alumni annual commencement luncheon, held yesterday afternoon in John Jay Hall.
Mr. Sulzberger pointed out that censorship of the press precedes the enslavement of people who enjoyed generations of freedom and who thought themselves free, “Without a sufficient report of conditions, people are helpless,” he added.
President Nicholas Murray Butler, President James Bryant Conant of Harvard University, and John Maynard Keynes, British economist and author, were other speakers at the luncheon. William B. Symmes Jr., president of the Alumni Association, presided.
HONOR JEWISH ALUMNI
Three Jewish alumni were among the nine awarded university medals by President Butler at the 180th commencement of Columbia University yesterday. They were: Arthur Hays Sulzberger, ’13, “newspaper executive”; Lewis Einstein, ’99, “diplomat and man of letters,” and Jacob Barstow Smull, ’96, “merchant.’
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