Word: conveys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While interventionists picketed outside, more than 600 Radcliffe and Harvard students gathered for a "peace strike" meeting in Sanders Theatre yesterday morning and heard a group of Faculty and undergraduate speakers urge this country to stay out of war and to block the use of American ships to convey goods to England...
More than 560 persons, including over 240 members of the Faculty, have signed the resolution sent to President Roosevelt by American Defense. Harvard Group asking for further transfer of destroyers or collaboration with the British in the convey service, it was announced last Friday night...
...President has made no statements concerning conveys, but the rest of his Administration machine has been buzzing with talk of the necessity of making American aid effective. Until the final O.K. is given by the Chief Executive, however, the convey machinery, which stands ready to roll, cannot be set into motion. And with a flat 67 per cent of the nation opposed to the scheme (Gallup poll figures yesterday), the able politician in the White House doesn't dare to change his mind in public...
Following up their open letter of March 18, the American Defense, Harvard Group, sent a resolution to President Roosevelt yesterday urging the Administration to "take immediate steps to make its policy effective, whether that means further transfer of destroyers of collaboration with the British in the convey service...
...both occasions, they have pointed to the Administration as being in agreement with the principles of their own policy. The convey system, they urge, is merely the most sensible way of insuring that the country's policy of material aid will take real effect...