Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coup" which changed the Harvard Committee to Study Disarmament to the Council Against Appeasement was actually unsuccessful because of a constitutional technicality, Dennis L. White '60 president of the Disarmamaent Committee, told the Student Council last night...
...self-styled "amusingly engineered coup" which turned the Harvard-Radcliffe Committee to Study Disarmament into an anti-appeasement club has completely perverted the group's non-political nature and destroyed its original intent. This internal reversal, which was managed by the president and specially-elected members, should not be dismissed with nothing more than a smile at the political cleverness which supplanted the supposed naivete of the founders. The incident is hardly funny, and even less so because the same trick theoretically could be perpetrated on any other college organization...
...Faculty sponsor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Committee to Study Disarmament I read with dismay this morning the account of the self-styled "amusingly engineered coup" which, in the fashion of Communist seizure of organizations, turned the Committee into its opposite. This kind of a perversion of democratic processes seems to me neither amusing nor tolerable, whether it be carried out by revolutionary or by reactionary intriguers...
Linda S. Mirin '59, founder of the Committee, and William M. Bennett '61, vice-chairman until the "coup," said they would ask the Harvard and Radcliffe student councils and administrations to refuse official recognition to the Council Against Appeasement...
David F. Peterson '60, president of the Harvard Young Republican Club, disavowed any connection between his organization and the "coup...