Word: interventionists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unless the poll shows that a large number, even approaching a majority, of Harvard men want extracurricular military training, the Defense League should go no further. Nothing could be more futile than the formation of a broomstick brigade among a small group of interventionist fanatics. There is, moreover, reason to believe that the Army could ill spare the officers and material necessary for the proper training of a specially previleged group of Harvard students. In the regular Military Science staff this year are two young men up from the R.O.T.C., instead of the usual experienced West Pointers...
...universal reticence of New England Chapters in joining the Walkout is caused by splits similar to that now in progress here. It points to the difference in attitude towards the war between the solidly non-interventionist mid West, South and West and the interventionist East...
...agreement with the policy of the Harvard Chapter of The American Student Defense League, which favors peace as much as does any other student group. It becomes difficult to understand, therefore, why the afros-mentioned editorial should refer to the Student Defense League as taking "a thinly-veiled interventionist stand." Wingate Green, Jr. '41 Lee Dimond '41 Harvard Chapter, American Student Defense League...
...first place, since both sides are non-interventionist, that is, opposed to America's entrance into the war, the greater their combined strength the better. Until next week's meeting casts the die, no one in favor of this general stand should drop out or refuse to join on the grounds that this particular view appears likely to be voted down. Another question that bobs up is the fate of the Progressive, the HSU organ which, under the leadership of Marx and Stange, has become one of Harvard's best-written, most provocative magazines. It would be especially unfortunate...
...there are going to be two rival peace groups; that's all right so long as they are real peace groups, don't waste all their energy fighting each other, and act as a healthy balance wheel for such organizations as the 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...