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Members of the Harvard Student Union will vote in secret ballot on an amendment to the A. S. U. platform, it was announced yesterday by Alan Gottlieb '41, President of the Harvard Chapter. The amendment would condemn Russia for the invasion of Finland...
...amendment, rejected at the national convention by a vote of 322-49, was referred to the decision of the entire Student Union body in a referendum called by the National Executive Committee. Ballots for the vote were received yesterday by Gottlieb and will be returned for count to the National Office in New York within a month...
...certain of them. The H.S.U. has recognized this; the A.S.U. has yet to do so. On the other hand, secession is equally unwise; it would be at once the first step in the disintegration of the national organization, and a death-blow to the local chapter. As President Gottlieb declared, "there is no need to emphasize the necessity for a nation-wide youth organization working to keep America out of war. Under very favorable circumstances it took five years to build the A.S.U. If we are to help break it up now, we would destroy it at the time...
...casting its lot with the national body, for better or for worse, the Harvard chapter must strive also to see that it is "better" which wins. The Gottlieb "condemn Russia" amendment, already adopted by the local chapter, is to be voted on through a national referendum in the coming fortnight. The H.S.U. should do all it can to convince the general membership to approve the amendment, and thereby rebuke the pro-Soviet Convention. Only thus can the American Student Union erase from the public mind an impression which has done much to destroy the value of the organization...
...delegates to the Congress are: Edward Ames '42, David P. Bennett '42, Fleischman, Maurice S. Friedman '43, Edward B. Ginsberg, Jr. '43, Alan R. Gottlieb '41, Lawrence B. Grose '41, Samuel S. Hermann '40, Jonas N. Muller '40, Basil R. Pollitt '41, Walter K. Rosen '42, and Irwin Ross...