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...wins out. Developing all last year, intellectual tension is now at the breaking point between President Alan Gottlieb's pro-aid-to-Britain, pro-Roosevelt group, and the Marx-Stange faction favoring no aid to Britain and branding Roosevelt as a war-monger. Inevitably the break will weaken the HSU, and tend to depress still further the strong but gradually waning student sentiment for keeping America out of war. This is too bad, and everything possible should be done to keep the effect from being too demoralizing...
...Defense for What, the HSU of 1939-40 has made its bid for survival in 1940-1941. The writer, who formerly regarded the HSU as the most appealing political group on the campus, feels called upon to explain a lack of sympathy with its present program. To begin with, it does not recognize the possibilities for, and the necessity of, any preparedness at this time. Furthermore, it prefers to stand outside the real politics of preparedness in order to sulk as an ineffective minority...
Denying that the Harvard Student Union would sponsor the "Yanks are Not Coming" Committee's nation-wide Peace Ballot, as erroneously stated in the CRIMSON yesterday morning, HSU President Alan Gottlieb '41 said last night that the HSU Executive Committee recently decided against handling the vote...
...explanation for the HSU's refused to conduct the poll here, Gottlieb said, "The ballot's wording 'Do you want peace or war for America?" would not provoke much deep reflection and might encourage thoughtless responses...
...HSU supports the 'Yanks Are Not Coming' Committee as one of the most powerful and promising peace organizations in this country. However, the value of a ballot with this oversimplification of the issues involved in peace and war was considered by the HSU to be very slight for Harvard...