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With the resignation last night of Alan Gottlieb '41 as president of the Student Union, the long predicted split between the "full aid" and the "Anti-intervention" factions of the Union was made inevitable...
...subject of foreign policy, which was heatedly discussed at last night's mass meeting, the Harvard Student Union will next week be split clean through, no matter which of its two factions wins out. Developing all last year, intellectual tension is now at the breaking point between President Alan Gottlieb's pro-aid-to-Britain, pro-Roosevelt group, and the Marx-Stange faction favoring no aid to Britain and branding Roosevelt as a war-monger. Inevitably the break will weaken the HSU, and tend to depress still further the strong but gradually waning student sentiment for keeping America...
...Student Defense League, with its thinly-veiled interventionist stand. It is up to the Marx-Stange element to avoid being obstructionist and taking a wholly negative stand, opposing everything but their own domestic policy, and claiming that that is the cure-all for America's troubles. Likewise, the Gottlieb group will have to keep its head, recognize the difference between aid to England for our defense and aid for the purpose of incitement to war, and not follow Mr. Roosevelt blindly in his risky foreign policy...
...Gottlieb's Platform...
Chief planks in the Gottlieb statement were as follows: "We fully appreciate the importance to the United States of a victory for Great Britain. Cognizant of the necessity of not plunging into war, we urge such material aid to England as is consistent with national defense...