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...student pacifist on temporary leave from the University faces the possibility of federal prosecution for his stand as a conscientious objector...
...Harvard Fellowship for Reconciliation will continue to work actively for non-violent action despite an attempt to obstruct its work by members of the Conservative Club, the president of the Pacifist group said last night...
John D. Butcher '57 asserted that anyone may attend a Fellowship meeting and he did not object to the Conservatives' presence for that reason. "But they tried to twist the pacifist purposes of our group," Butcher said after last night's meeting...
...Butcher said, "Our executive committee will check Cole's attempts to neutralize our group. We did not realize what he was doing." Butcher added that the Fellowship's executive committee would table Cole's resolution to withdraw the group from active participation against war. Cole told the group such pacifist views were illegal under the Selective Service...
When the Speaker of the House, calling for a voice vote, heard a thin scattertering of noes, he ordered a formal vote. As Eden watched glumly, 263 Tories trooped into the voting lobby, trailed by one Socialist. Four pacifist Socialists made their lonely way to the other lobby to vote no; the rest of the Laborites kept their places. Attlee sat slumped on the front bench, doodling and looking unhappy. He had prevented a larger rebellion in Labor's ranks, but had left his party in the craven position of refusing to vote for agreements it had publicly supported...