Free Speech and the New Left

The following appeared in a leaflet distributed by Students for a Democratic Society at New York University the day after it broke up a meeting at which James Reston was scheduled to speak, as well as another meeting at which the Ambassador from South Vietnam was scheduled to speak.

Last night the Ambassador from South Vietnam, Nguyen Huu Chi, and James Reston, Executive Editor of the New York Times, were scheduled to speak… SDS members interrupted, and both of them l...

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