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In Beaty's mind, the whole university was also suspect for cooperating with the National Conference of Christians and Jews on a summer workshop in human relations, and so was the university bookstore for displaying books by Friedrich Engels. "Are the minds of our students," cried Beaty, "to be guided by B'nai B'rith ... or by Soviet Moscow ... or by assorted devotees of the little world power which usurps the name of 'Israel?' How did non-Christian power come to wield so great an influence in S.M.U. ?"
By a vote of 114-2 (Beaty absent), the faculty condemned Beaty's attacks as being "without any foundation in fact." Seven of Dallas' most prominent Protestant ministers wrote to President Lee, expressing "outraged Christian conscience" over Beaty's "inflammatory and divisive" writings. Finally, a group of S.M.U. law professors took a long and belated look at Beaty's book, denounced it as a collection of "spurious doctrines and bigoted theories of racial and religious prejudice."
Last week, on the request of retiring President Lee, the trustees named a special committee to investigate the whole Beaty affair. But John Beaty was carrying on as usual. From his pen came another pamphlet, plaintively crying that the label "antiSemitic" was nothing but a smear aimed at people who are genuine antiCommunists. It certainly was not a tag that could possibly apply to good old John Beaty. "I have no feelings except feelings of friendship," said he, "for pro-American Jews."