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...Committee for Wallace received its official sanction yesterday from the Faculty Committee on Student Activities, and opposition of military training is its first concrete move. Mentioning an opposing political organization, program committee chairman Staughton C. Lynd '50 said, "We may not grow as quickly, but we'll last longer and accomplish more. We are more for things than against them...
...Wallace," Lynd went on to say, "as a private individual who, unlike most, has constructive plans for the future." Nesin added that "we are picking the clearest figure," Newspaper treatment, said Nesin, has been unfair and biased; it is the aim of the Committee for Wallace to present his views straight-forward as they stand...
Taking a poke at the American character itself, Lynd termed it "ideologically naive and slovenly." The United States, he proclaimed, is no longer a leader in assuming new modes of doing things, but is actually the "arch-example of reaction and conservatism...
...worst villain of the piece, according to Lynd, is big business, which has "exploited the symbols of democracy to get the U.S. in line with their private purposes." He also condemned the N.A.M. for furthering the principle of monopoly rights under the guise of "competition...
Professor Lynd's program of "new options" for the future includes large scale planning, full employment, and avoidance of inflation. All of these are possible if only "we are willing to do what it takes...