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They prepared an eight-page policy pamphlet which spelled out a program of "unilateral initiatives" for a stable peace which would not threaten the nation's deterrent. Couched in modern language, the Tocsin proposals were designed to elicit a meaningful dialogue between the demonstrators and official Washington...
Days before the March, Tocsin leaders were hopeful that their intellectual approach would get results. Some still hoped that they might persuade Kennedy not to resume testing. "Since Eisenhower is out," Goldmark said, "the people there now are the ones we can talk to." He hoped for "a small but noticeable effect," and "to have the ideas of our policy injected with force into public discussions...
...Washington's reaction to this novel student lobby amazed and disappointed the marchers. A few Congressmen reacted almost violently. Sen. John O. Pastore (D-R.I.) refused to see a delegation from the group, and told a CRIMSON reporter that Tocsin had been "carried off by cliches and slogans." He said solutions would come from "clear heads knowing all the facts, not by emotional outbursts." He claimed the demonstration had "questioned the ability of chosen leaders to make calm deliberate decisions." Rep. Chet Holifield (D-Calif.) told reporters the marchers were "full of bologna...
...handful of friendly Congressmen welcomed the demonstrators, but most of the Senators and Representatives who met with delegations were neither hostile nor receptive: they simply refused to engage in the exchange of ideas Tocsin had envisioned. The marchers were thanked for their interest, told of the Congressman's strong feeling about the importance of peace and shown the door. "We were treated as if we were very very young, not at all intelligent and totally in the dark on cold war issues," Goldmark remarked after one such meeting...
...against Edward M. Kennedy '54. The President's successful handling of the Cuban crisis further isolated the peace organizations throughout the country. In addition the growing civil rights movement was becoming a severe drain on the funds and enthusiasm of the peace groups, and by the fall of 1963 Tocsin was virtually dead. Last fall, after a year's gap, the Vietnamese crisis seemed to provide a rallying cry once again, and the peace forces regrouped under the banner of the Students for a Democratic Society, the organization responsible for last weekend's march...