Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seventy-five House Republicans sat insilence as one of their colleagues disavowed Willkie "as a leader of Republican thought." None rose to defend the 1940 G.O.P. standard bearer, who was branded "the No. 1 warmonger of America" by Rep. William P. Lamberison, R., Kans...
Oxonian Herbert's words touched off a row like a summer thunderstorm. One hundred seventy-four Members of Parliament signed a petition supporting the Group. Evangelist Buchman himself was not available for comment (he was last seen in Bath, Me. attending a Group musical show called You Can Defend America), but from his press-relations department came a stream of releases giving testimonials from everyone from Franklin Roosevelt to "the Lord Mayor of Bristol and 52 aldermen and councilors...
...country you defend...
...Student Defenders of Democracy and the College Division of the Committee to Defend America are two intercollegiate groups defintely slated to join the merger, which will not enforce a rigidly centralized policy as did the American Student Union. Girls' committees from Swarthmore, Vassar, and Mt. Holyoke will round out the coeducational side of the Merger Committee...
...which with Swarthmore, Vassar, and Mt. Holyoke organizations forms the Student League for Progressive Action, will become the local chapter. The Student Defenders of Democracy and the Committee to Defend America will bring 90 chapters into the fold. All three groups have platforms which exactly parallel that of the HLU, so that the national program that will be decided upon next December 27 at the University of Michigan is easily predictable. It will be prolabor but anti-defense-strike, strongly outspoken for domestic democracy, but definitely interventionist and bitterly anti-Hitler. Non-interventionist liberals will not be excluded, however...