Word: platform
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Previously, this Union had published a platform which declared, among other things, that...
Nowhere in the seven declarations of the platform is there a single word to indicate any opposition by its signers to the Reserve Officers' Training Corps or to preparedness; but from some fad or fancy the CRIMSON has construed the document into an expression of hostility and has turned loose its mighty wrath. The reason for this, I believe, can be made out from a consideration of the way in which the CRIMSON has come to be our heroic defender of the national honor...
...though not an undergraduate ask for some of your space in which to discuss the platform of the Harvard Union for American Neutrality as presented in your issue of the 15th...
...declare that we shall talk no more? We have done our deliberating; we have studiously tried to avoid war; and yet, after all that has passed we are told that we are in a danger of being injudicious and hasty! Nor is there a general misunderstanding, as the platform declares. The issues are very plain. They have been carefully and repeatedly presented...
Section 3 of the platform states that "the rights of neutrals upon the seas cannot be established by a belligerent." That is precisely the issue and that is precisely why, after vainly telling Germany that she cannot establish our rights upon the seas, that we have been forced to sever relations...