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...stormiest and largest meeting since its founding, the Harvard Student Union last night passed a resolution condemning "Russian aggression against Finland," and elected officers for the coming year...
...after 10 o'clock when the instructions of delegates in regard to policy came up. Perlman read and argued for the following resolution: "Resolved. That the Harvard Student Union condemns the Russian aggression against Finland, and at the same time condemns those who would use this incident in an attempt to drag us into...
...longer able to keep silent on Russia's invasion of Finland, the Harvard Student Union will make a decision at tonight's meeting which will shape the future of its policy. It can look no longer to the Soviet with dreamy idealism. Red aggression against a tiny Scandinavian country has snapped the last possible tie with America. To dodge this reality is weakness. If the Student Union is to continue its liberal advance, it must realize that America and Russia have nothing more in common...
Last week Tabouis, out on a limb as usual, flatly predicted a peaceful settlement of little Finland's unwilling controversy with Soviet Russia. Next day a Soviet army crossed Finland's frontier (see p. 23) and Soviet planes dropped bombs on Helsinki. Tabouis followers were neither angry nor surprised. They had long ago learned to take her utterances with a shakerful of salt...
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. -- Taking official notice of European hostilities and particularly the war in Finland that probably will force cancellation of the 1940 Olympics, the U.S. Amateur Athletic Union closed its 51st annual convention tonight with a stinging denunciation of Germany and Russia...