Professor Hamilton's Diary: Jan. 28, 1935

An isolationist white supremacist speaks in Reading; the professor disputes his words

It was so cold on this Monday morning — the thermostat had hit zero — that Gwennie did not go to school. Her father, however, went to the campus to give freshman exams in the afternoon. That night, he attended a lecture at the Woman’s Club by the influential writer Leland Stoddard on the subject “Common Sense on Foreign Policy.” He disagreed with what Stoddard, an isolationist and white supremacist, had to say.

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