For Freedom & Justice

"What is a truly free society, and how can such a society be maintained?" Vast as these questions are, the Fund for the Republic announced last week that with the help of ten men it would try to find some answers. The ten consultants will meet several times a year, direct and discuss research into how various modern institutions--e.g., the labor union, the giant corporation, mass communications and private pressure groups--affect the workings of freedom and justice.

"Today," said Fund President Robert M. Hutchins, "social institutions have grown to gigantic size, with consequences which the authors of the Constitution could not even imagine." The ten who will examine those consequences: Columbia University's Law Professor Adolph A. Berle Jr., Editor Henry R. Luce, Philosopher Scott Buchanan, University of California's Political Scientist Eugene Burdick, Princeton Historian Eric Goldman, Chancellor Clark Kerr of the University of California, Jesuit Theologian John Courtney Murray, Nobel Physicist Isidor I. Rabi, University of Chicago Anthropologist Robert Redfield, Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr.

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