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...platform of the opposition party was issued by President Alan Gottlieb '41 yesterday. It favored material aid to Britain, solidification of the Western hemisphere, and sanctions against Japan in its foreign policy and urged the preservation of social democracy under President Roosevelt in its domestic plank...
Support for this platform is stronger than was first expected and it may well be that Gottlieb will succeed in getting sufficient numbers out in the policy meeting next Tuesday night to bring an about face...
Just what will happen if this occurs is a matter of specification. It is Gottlieb's hope that he can hold the Union together with a strong domestic front while relegating the foreign issue to the background as a subject for forums. Since much of the life blood of the Union is in the Stange-Marx-non-intervention group most notably "The Progressive" this is clearly "desirable...
...just because it is the vitalizing force behind the Union, it seems unlikely that it can be so easily squelched. Hence a Gottlieb victory will probably make a split inevitable...
What will happen then is that the charter from the National Student Union will be revoked from the Gottlieb group, and the Stange-Marx group will continue as the Harvard chapter. The charter will probably be revoked if Gottlieb holds the Union together on his policy forcing and it will act as an independent group...