Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...civilized world stands revolted by a bloody pogrom against a defenseless people. Every instinct in us cries out in protest against the outrages which have taken place in Germany during the last five years and which sank to new depths in the organized frenzies of the last few days. . . . If you saw a gang of cowardly ruffians set upon a helpless man in a public street and proceed to beat him, you wouldn't long remain silent. If you saw a fanatical mob pillage and burn a church or a synagogue you wouldn't long remain silent...
...meeting held in Winthrop House yesterday, representatives of the 11 undergraduate organizations that sponsored Wednesday's protest meeting against the Nazi anti-Jew campaign drew up plans for giving financial aid to student refugees from Germany...
Speaking at the protest meeting which was sponsored by 11 student and faculty organizations with the Student Union as prime mover, were Dean Sperry, Zechariah Chafee, professor of Law, Gordon Allport '19, associate professor of Psychology, William Bingham '16, director of Physical Education, and Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government...
Allport, describing the Nasi leaders as "perverted, psychotic, and near psychotic," pleaded for American alignment with the defenders of democracy. He was followed by Bingham, who said. "It is fitting that we should protest against the torture of a people who have contributed so much to the culture of the world...
Robert E. Lane '39, president of the Student Union, announced that the following statement was sent yesterday to all Eastern colleges for endorsement: "We students of American colleges protest the exclusion of Jewish students from German universities. Religious discrimination and book burning destroy twentieth century intellectual standards and degrade German scholarship...