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"Dr. McDonald and I have been asked by Dr. A. H. Church, Visiting Professor in the College of Engineering at Duke University, to cooperate with that institution in a visit by a Soviet Scientist. Dr. V. V. Sokolovskiy is a member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and is an authority in elasticity, plasticity, soil mechanics, and applied mathematics in general. The National Academy of Sciences has arranged for him to visit and give seminar lectures at Brown, M. I. T. , Harvard, Duke, Stanford, University of California at Berkley, UCLA, and New York University................. Is there any reason why he should not visit this campus to meet only with a few faculty members for a discussion restricted entirely to technical questions in science and engineering?"

"I responded as follows:

'My answer to you is that you are permitted to cooperate with Duke University in having the Doctor Sokolovskiy visit this campus for the purposes which you have indicated. In attempting to comply with the statutory restriction under which we are now operating, I must admonish you against any public invitation to the students and faculty to attend any meeting with the visitor. Your guest list should include without any question whatever faculty members who may have interest in meeting him and exchanging ideas in their fields with this gentleman. You have my permission to do so. I deeply regret that this man's knowledge cannot also be made available to our advanced undergraduate students and graduate students who have an interest in his field.'"

Case III

"The National Academy of Sciences of the National Research Council of the United States of America invited on September 1 applications from scientists in the United States to participate in the US-USSR Inter-Academy Exchange Program for the academic year 1964-65. Under this program 56 scientists will be given grants to spend from one to ten months in Russia studying the developments in their scientific fields. A member of our faculty is interested in applying. He is a highly qualified scientist. He, nevertheless, called the attention of the Administration to one of the eligibility requirements of the National Academy of Sciences which is as follows:

'It is questionable whether the National Academy of Sciences will be in a position to select American Scientists who work in institutions unable to receive Soviet scientists for short visits of a day or two or for research over a period of months, e. g., national laboratories of the AEC, laboratories of the Department of Defense or the military services, or certain laboratories of private industry. However, there should be no question as to the eligibility of American scientists at universities which in general are prepared to receive Soviet scientists for long-term as well as short visits.'

"The Chancellor advised the professor that under the circumstances he would not ethically apply to the National Academy to visit Soviet Russia, the circumstances being that he would be embarrassed to have a return visit from a Soviet scientist and be forced by law into a position of not being able to invite interested students and faculty to attend one or more lectures by him. "

Case IV

"A member of the faculty of a neighboring university has declined an invitation to participate in our seminars during 1963-64 to which he had been invited. His letter is as follows:

'My attention has just been called to the existence of the so-called 'speaker ban' in force at N. C. State institutions. I find it an extremely repugnant invasion of the University's traditional rights, freedom of inquiry, and of our democratic ideals in general. I have resolved not to speak before any N. C. state institution until this restriction has been fully removed. I must therefore, with considerable regret, decline your kind