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Alan Barton '45 speaking for the amendment stressed that if all men joined SDA the HLU would gain "a prominent place in the student movement of the United States," and that Communists in a liberal organization "perverted it to their own ends...
After two and one-half hours of debate last night, the members of the Harvard Liberal Union failed to reach a two-third majority which would have meant affiliation with the new national group, Students for Democratic Action, but passed a majority resolution backing SDA and affirming a desire to join in the near future...
...constitution of the SDA declares against "Communists and all other totalitarian groups," and the debate on the amendment revolved around the question of whether every HLU member could support this stand. The proposed amendment would have required every man in HLU to get an SDA membership card and thereby personally back their principle of non-affiliation with Communists...
...vote of 77 for and 60 against did not attain the requisite two-thirds majority which was needed to pass the constitutional amendment for affiliation. The resolution of Frederick D. Houghteling '50 putting the HLU on record behind the principles of SDA passed by 74 to 44 tally...
...proposal which did pass put the HLU as an organization behind the SDA principles but, in effect, allowed individual members to dissent and still remain in the HLU although disagreeing with the views of the majority...