Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...efforts, however, have run into a blank wall. "I just can't understand it," Fischer complains. The National Secretary of the Fellowship of Reconciliation even wrote a letter for me, and yet everything has been ignored...
David B. Cole '55, president of the Conservative League, and seven fellow members attended the meeting and proposed constitutional changes without declaring their own political affiliations. Cole attempted to change the Fellowship from a political action group to a discussion forum...
When told that Cole is head of the Conservatives, Butcher said, "Our executive committee will check Cole's attempts to neutralize our group. We did not realize what he was doing." Butcher added that the Fellowship's executive committee would table Cole's resolution to withdraw the group from active participation against war. Cole told the group such pacifist views were illegal under the Selective Service...
Butcher also said that Cole had advanced so many resolutions at the meeting that the Fellowship was unable to decide on whether to circulate petitions asking that American crop surplusses be sent to aid starving Chinese. "We wanted to get started on some definite decision concerning the petitions, but we didn't have time," he said...
When Butcher had asked the Fellowship to consider sending the surplusses, Cole said, "Let them starve, maybe the people will revolt." He was backed by Robert A. Knudson '58, another Conservative, who said, "Let the Chinese starve, it's an act of God. At any rate, we ought to feed the people in the Bowery first...