Word: tocsins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...held none of Tocsin's naive hopes about establishing a meaningful dialogue with Washington officialdom. Its leaders chose Easter weekend for the march, although they must have realized that Congress would be in recess and Johnson probably in Texas. Students made no appointments with officials. They did not seem to think that they could "come and reason together" with Johnson; nor did they believe that a dramatic reevaluation of U.S. policy would result...
...terms of these goals the demonstration was a success. The crowd which gathered, from as far away as Mississippi, Berkeley and Minnesota, far exceeded the private expectations of SDS leaders. While news coverage was , and probably did not equal that accorded the Tocsin demonstration, the figures alone are impressive...
...because of the emphasis on protest rather than policy, the marchers lacked the clear thinking and directed proposals of Goldmark's Project Washington. In 1962, although Tocsin had a very fragile coalition of allies (the Student Peace Union, Student SANE, the American Friends Service Committee, and SDS), it managed to produce a sharply focused set of policy proposals...