Word: hsu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...annual convention--the International Student Service and the American Student Union. The clear result of the meetings was that there is no "solid and determined peace movement" as far as youth is concerned. Last fall's split between the aid-to-Britain Harvard Liberal Union and the no-aid HSU bloomed in all its ominous vigor on the national scene. True, both groups stated their opposition to American entrance into the war, but their differences of opinion on methods for keeping out have successfully broken any united front of youth. By close adherence to a dogmatic position...
...neither an isolationist nor a pacifist organization--one of the signers of this letter is attending the convention as a delegate of the HSU. On the contrary the Student Union invites to its discussions all students, of whatever policy, who wish to unite in fighting the present hysterical trend towards a blind entry into the European war. The Union is trying, not to turn its back on the crisis, but to evolve a program of domestic and foreign policy which will insure that civil liberties and social legislation are preserved and extended in America; and that America's weight...
Resignation of chapter presidents in protest to the Union's anti-Roosevelt and anti-New Deal stand, the same grounds as those on which Gotlfeb resigned from the HSU presidency on Monday, took place at North Carolina and Vassar...
Gottlieb's statement upon tendering his resignation to the Executive Committee follows: "I have resigned from the presidency of the HSU because of a fundamental disagreement with the program...
...executive committee of the HSU, in accepting Gottlieb's resignation, said, "We regret that we feel forced to accept Alan Gottlieb's resignation from the presidency. The program adopted by the membership of the Student Union calls for opposition to any aid to the belligerents as a fundamental plank in its anti-war program, and we cannot but feel that Gottlieb's advocacy of aid to Great Britain and support of the Administration's program is in contradiction with our desire to keep the Student Union an anti-war organization...