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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...generous CRIMSON, with its profession of patriotism, has said recently of the Harvard Union for American Neutrality in an editorial entitled "Worse Than Slackers": "Suddenly a new group in opposition to Harvard prepared has arisen. It is called the Harvard Union for American Neutrality, a high-sounding idealistic name which successfully clothes the real spirit of this unfortunate movement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 2/24/1917 | See Source »

...tomorrow; we are not preparing for war against Germany. We are preparing for war when war shall come, from whatsoever source, from those nations which seem our dearest friends, or from those which we ignore." This simple, sensible program would suit even the most pronounced pacifist. No good American wants our nation unprepared...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 2/24/1917 | See Source »

...change of heart and gained fast in wisdom and prophecy. On the latter date it says: "It would be well if we could put off till tomorrow what seems obnoxious today. But war will not be put off. . . . We are now so near war that the sinking of one American ship, the wanton destruction of American lives, would draw us inevitably into the maelstrom." Since that date the second American ship has been sunk and other American lives destroyed but we are not yet at war. The cocksureness of the CRIMSON has not even pulled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 2/24/1917 | See Source »

...enters the Harvard Union for American Neutrality with its great hope. Will the CRIMSON countenance such weak-kneed pusillanimity? No indeed! The CRIMSON has declared war, and war it shall be! "We are in complete ac- cord with the belief that all international questions ought to be decided through diplomatic channels and by reference to arbitration courts and boards of inquiry. But the actual situation has passed beyond the control of such remedies." (February...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 2/24/1917 | See Source »

...spirit which is exemplified in the Harvard Union for American Neutrality and in the speeches of Mr. Bryan is the same which extenuates robbery in order to avoid any unfortunate danger to the persons of the municipal police force. It is the same spirit which came very close to crushing England at the beginning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Neutrality Union an Anachronism. | 2/23/1917 | See Source »

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