Richard D.] Poll ... joined with twenty-one other BYU professors in publicly condemning John A. Stormer's None Dare Call It Treason as "this piece of fanatacism." Poll was the one who publicly responded to complaints by BYU's ultra-conservative students about this statement. At the time Stormer's book was "in sales and in loans, the most popular book" within the Birch Society.
["Faculty Members Deplore 'Fanaticism' of Booklet," Provo Daily Herald, 23 July 1964, 14; "None Dare Call It Treason Causes Sincere Concern," Brigham Young University Daily Universe, 23 July 1964, 2; "Students Take Issue With 'None Dare Call It Treason' Critics," Brigham Young University Daily Universe, 28 July 1964, 2; "Poll Answers Student Letters," Brigham Young University Daily Universe, 30 July 1964, 2. 138. ". From D. Michael Quinn, Ezra Taft Benson and Mormon Political Conflicts, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 26:2 (Summer 1992), also in Quinn, The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power Salt Lake City (Signature Books, 1994), Chapter 3.]
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