Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recently, it has entered the National political fray. Houghteling himself was instrumental in founding the student movement to draft Eisenhower for the presidency, (to break Truman, he explains) but the club as a whole voted last month to support Justice Douglas. The split is purely a tactical one--"expediency versus idealism," as Houghteling explains it--and is by no means a permanent breach...
Margolis started the Harvard Committee for Wallace last October, before the national movement got underway. Since then its activities have been ceaseless: it organized an anti-UMT rally, helped initiates the recent Save The Peace Rally, played host to a convention of New England Students for Wallace in February, as well as cooperating with the Cambridge Progressive party on local elections. At present, its chief efforts are in the direction of petitioning to put Wallace's name on the Massachusetts ballot...
...third-party movement "will have no value, however, if it collapses in November," he added, "and it will only succeed in the end with a really solid base of organized labor...
...kept Communist demonstrators at more than arm's length, the Communists' great enemy, Charles de Gaulle, spoke from a barge anchored in the Old Port to a throng of 100,000 on the docks. He offered not one hand but two to all who would join his movement. He said that "our arms are wide open to others"-which seemed to indicate that he still had lively hopes of a deal with Premier Robert Schuman...
Died. John Christmas Moeller, 54, tiny gamecock of the Danish resistance, prewar Minister of Commerce (1940), postwar Foreign Minister (1945); of a heart ailment; in Copenhagen. Moeller helped establish the underground, then escaped to Britain in 1942 to head the Free Danish Movement. He negotiated an agreement with Britain whereby the R.A.F. spared Danish towns from saturation bombing so long as Danish patriots stuck to a busy schedule of blowing up factories...