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...feel sure you will put on record this disclaimer. The Peace Ballot is not political. It is not pacifist. It is not a straw vote. It does not ask for unilateral reduction of the Empire's forces...
...University of California at Los Angeles 1,500 students gathered, in a vacant lot off the campus, watched pacifist speakers and antipacifist hog-callers try to outshout each other. A few miles away, at Los Angeles Junior College, 25 peace demonstrators mounted the library steps, started to harangue a few hundred followers. College officers first tried to drown them out by roaring into microphones of the campus public address system. Next Director Roscoe...
...University of Chicago, 300 pacifist students thought they would climax a mass meeting in Mandel Hall by parading around the Midway. They paraded one block before a tiny band of students blocked their way, called them Communists (see p. 30), pelted them with eggs and stink bombs. Routing their adversaries, the pacifists chanted the Oxford peace oath: "We refuse to bear arms for our country in time...
...Michigan State College of Agriculture, six pacifist leaders, including the pastor of the Unitarian Church of Ann Arbor, were tossed into the Cedar River. C. In Philadelphia, thanks to the support of the Board of Education and University of Pennsylvania's President Thomas Sovereign Gates, attendance at high school and college meetings reached 30,000, with more Quakers than Communists in evidence...
...Harvard, earnest pacifists were overrun by "The Michael Mullins Chowder & Marching Club," a nebulous society dedicated to confounding all who take themselves seriously. Chowder Marchers goose-stepped through Harvard Square with swastikas, steel helmets, real machine guns. At the end of Peace Day student pacifist leaders loudly called it a complete success. Pacifists had been egged in Chicago, sprinkled in Los Angeles, laughed down at Harvard, ignored throughout much of the South and Midwest. But big turnouts in the East, despite a chilly rain, had raised the number of demonstrators almost to the 150,000 which Peace Day leaders...