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Supplementing the roles performed by the Liberal Union and the Conservative League, a new political group has been formed at the College. The Harvard Political Science Forum, a non-partisan organization designed to promote political and economic consciousness and further education among the undergraduates, is said by its founders, Levin H. Campbell 3rd '48, John L. Phelan '47, Clerbert N. Raab '46, and Richard B. Webster '48, to be "at cross-purposes with no other political group at Harvard...
...whose theory of progress was to dynamite the social order; or even old Bob LaFollette's 1924 Progressives, the most successful of all but never strong enough nationally to dent the two-party system. They had seen the 1936-40 failure of John Lewis' Labor's Non-Partisan League, of which they themselves were a part. And they remembered the late Sam Gompers, the cigarmaker from London's East Side who ruled the A.F. of L. for 37 years and who held that labor should do no more and no less than "reward its friends...
Bald Frank FitzGerald, candidate of organized labor and of the Negro, came up from nowhere to win Detroit's non-partisan primary right under the suntanned nose of Mayor Edward J. Jeffries Jr. (TIME, Oct. 18). Then the fight grew hot. FitzGerald hammered that Jeffries' campaign was "based on race and class prejudice." Jeffries jabbed at FitzGerald's inexperience in municipal affairs...
...Governor Warren last week as a likely candidate for the Vice-Presidency-perhaps even as a dark-horse Presidential possibility. But Warren, elected with the help of 400,000 Democratic votes, has firmly refused to discuss his political future, and continues to speak of himself as California's non-partisan wartime executive...
Until now, the only concern shown at Harvard for the establishment of the mixed regiment has been the half-hearted ineffectual attempts of minority groups to petition the student body. But because of the special importance of this measure, the Student Council, as a non-partisan sponsor, could step beyond its normal activity and circulate petitions for a mixed regiment. Action is necessary; the Council can act best, without political affiliation, to gather the opinion of the student body: opinion which will call for the beginning of a change in the radical attitudes of the nation...