Word: pledgee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Young Progressives demanded yesterday that Harvard join with other universities to force the Navy either to abolish its loyalty pledge requirement for NROTC students or else to disband its college units.
Max Bluestone, special student, member of the executive board of the Young Progressives, announced last night that the organization proposes three alternatives: First, that the University, under the guidance of President Conant, lead a concerted program involving other universities to demand the removal of the loyalty pledge for NROTC students...
Bailey and Bluestone pointed out that the list of subversive organizations on the pledge does not include any organizations at Harvard at the present time. "The list has doubled since March of '47, though," Bluestone said, and "who knows, the HYP and the Liberal Union may be next."
Last fortnight, the Episcopate abruptly shifted its stand, authorized priests to accept state salaries, to swear loyalty to the Communist "people's democracy" and to pledge themselves not to do anything "against [the state's] interests, security or integrity." But later the bishops instructed the priests to take...
The Reds slyly used the Episcopate's concession to discredit the church. President Gottwald freed 127 priests (jailed as hostages for their opposition to the government's new church laws), because they had "promised to mend their ways." A state court judge told the released priests: "I beg...