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Only major dissenters were the newspapers published by the Isolationist "Three Furies": Joe Patterson's New York Daily News, Sister Eleanor Patterson's Washington Times-Herald, Cousin Robert R. McCormick's Chicago Tribune...
...Isolationist Front Wavers...
...summed up as a disinclination to fight simply to preserve and restore democracy in Europe when there is no direct threat to America. When France fell, numbers of students began to see a direct threat to America and in the late spring of 1940 a realignment took place. The isolationist front began to waver...
There was still a strong student isolationist opposition. The CRIMSON took up an "aid short of war policy" but shifted at Thanksgiving time to a "no aid" policy, only to change back to "short of war" when a new board took over in January. The Student Union split on the question of aid and half the organization split off to form the Liberal Union, which started life as an "aid short of war" organization and ended the year as an affiliate of the Student Defense League. The H.S.U. maintained its line of "no aid; no involvement...
What College sympathies will be this year there is no telling. The Student Union, most violent of the isolationist groups, has always been accused of Communistic leanings, but whether it will adopt the Daily Worker switch remains to be seen.HARVARD SOLDIER, 1916 VERSION, heaves a hand grenade out of the trench near Fresh Pond...