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Cambridge's reaction was immediate. In every quad from Trinity to Jesus up went the cry "CANCEL THE BOAT RACE!"-the most stinging rebuke that undergraduate minds could conceive. Officials of the Cambridge Union, second only to the Oxford in Empire prestige, described the 275 pacifist Oxonians as "game gaffers." *Promptly President F. M. Hardy of the Oxford Union received a box containing 275 white feathers. They had been sent, London newspapers said, "from a women's college." Next day a second box brought 275 more white feathers. "Neither consignment," stiffly announced the President of the Union, "came...
...Einstein is excluded, the Department of State will be criticized by intellectuals and liberals. Yet those intellectuals who esteem Einstein so highly have never given much thought to the problem of the unimportant pacifist spurned at Ellis Island. Should he be admitted, the Women's Patriot Organization will attack vigorously and with justification...
When General Douglas MacArthur, U. S. Army Chief of Staff, was selected to be commencement speaker at the University of Pittsburgh, 300 students gave tongue against "militarism" (TIME, June 13). Three leaders who planned a pacifist demonstration were arrested, fined. Last week a higher court upheld them. Few days later, every matriculating Pittsburgh student was required to sign an oath of allegiance to the U. S. Constitution, the laws of Pennsylvania and the regulations of the University. Cried Business Manager John Weber: "We want right-minded students here...
...doesn't become popular," said he. "by saying that a popular policy will lead a country to catastrophe, especially if events have shown it to be true. There is no question that I am a pacifist. The War made me that. And I am an antiFascist. I am in favor of the republic and peace and the welfare of the working class...
...were Dr. William Edward Zeuch (pronounced Zoyk) of the University of Illinois, and Mrs. Kate Richards O'Hare, Labor lecturer, onetime (1912-14) international secretary of the Socialist Party of America. Mrs. O'Hare was once kissed by Anatole France when she appeared before an international Socialist gathering. A pacifist, she was imprisoned for 14 months during the War under the Espionage Act. In founding Commonwealth College. Dr. Zeuch and Mrs. O'Hare espoused no one dogma. Their "Commoners" might be Laborites, Liberals, Communists. Socialists, Single Taxers, anything they chose so long as they would work for their keep...