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More than 36% of the Episcopal clergy want to enter the war right away. Of those who do not, 79% favor armed intervention if a German victory cannot be prevented otherwise. Such was the return of a mail poll of 6,000 clergymen (of whom 50% answered) conducted by the Anglo-Catholic Living Church. Only 10% reported themselves pacifists...
...Rudolf Hess knew of Germany's discontent better than anyone else, for to him were delivered the official reports on civilian morale-the final tabulation of Germany's equivalent of the Gallup Poll. German demands on Russia were made known to the Russian Government three days before Hess's flight to England. That flight was his own individual project...
...British edition of the Gallup poll showed last week that 86% of the British approved of Winston Churchill as Prime Minister. In March 88% had approved, and the months between had seen damaging blows to his prestige-the Balkan campaign, the loss of Crete. As far as British popular sentiment went, the vote indicated that the Prime Minister's personal prestige would probably survive another defeat-provided it was not due to gross incompetence...
...late FORTUNE Magazine labor poll showed that a great majority of U.S. people: 1. Favored outlawing strikes in defense industries...
...tarring non-interventionist activities at Harvard with the Communist stick. The Harvard Committee Against Military Intervention has not, of course, been approached, for it is a middle-of-the-road group and represents about three-fourths of the 51 per cent at Harvard who, according to the Crimson poll, are opposed to intervention. We invite the F. B. I. to investigate us--but at the same time we deplore the attempts of the government to terrorize minorities (such as the Student Union) by publicizing their names, and hence inviting discrimination against them by employers. This constitutes an abridgment...