 In a 1949 speech at the University of Hawaii, Dodds argued that Communists had surrendered their rights as persons.In a speech that same year in San Francisco, he claimed that Communists were unfit to teach in schools or universities.In December 1950, when Princeton physicist David Bohm was arrested for his war-time connection to the Berkeley Radiation Lab, Dodds released a statement suspending Bohm "from all teaching and other duties" and in "an ominous footnote mentioned that Bohm's appointment was due to terminate in June 1951."