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...area, Jewish soldiers began to filter into the town. Others gathered on the slopes of Mount Carmel. One morning at i a.m. they struck. Behind a creeping mortar barrage, the Jews moved into the Arab quarters of the city. Bewildered Arabs gathered for one brief counterattack, then collapsed in leaderless confusion. Within a day, the Jews had taken Haifa...
...years has outstripped opponents for two chief reasons: through the organizational help of ADA it gains a relatively solid basis which rivals lack and through the adult leadership of ADA big-names (FDR, Jr., Wyatt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Tom Stokes) it holds out political symbols which Ioom attractive in a leaderless hour to youth of left-center inclination. Furthermore SDA, like ADA, clearly stated at the outset that unlike other organizations' which had fallen into negativist internal battling against men primarily loyal to the Communist Party Line, it would embark upon its adventure explicitly inviting Little Redwing out and defining...
Sellers' job will be organizing chapters in the South and Mid-West, and maintaining liason between the student and adult organizations. "The enthusiastic nationwide response to the formation of the A.D.A. indicates that it can become the rallying point for a strong insurgence of American liberalism, lately confused and leaderless because of the role played by the old liberal organization as uncritical apologists for the Soviet Union," Sellers said yesterday...
...tells how Conant, then president of Harvard University and little known in smoke-filled rooms where men suck cigars and make Presidents, was swept from his palatial office at Cambridge, Mass., and deposited in the White House by a nation "grown weary of obvious inefficiency at Washington; a leaderless people seeking leadership who turned to a man of science in one of the country's dark hours...
...Homeless and leaderless," the U.S. Left is an army of "politically displaced persons," according to Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, newly appointed associate professor of History, who delivered the featured address at Saturday's Massachusetts Student Campaign Conference in Emerson Hall...