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...poll of 9,000 party leaders The Republican (official publication of the Youing Republicans) recorded that 60% voted against "steps toward war" and 40% favored withdrawing opposition to the Administration "in all matters of foreign policy": 52% opposed and 48% favored sending the U.S. Army, Navy and air forces to Britain if it became apparent that otherwise she would go down: 65% favored U.S. particapation in the peace conference: 69% opposed Union...
...world. But many of them admit the necessity of establishing democracy within our own borders first. A step in this direction has at last been taken, for last Monday a campaign was begun to bring more democracy to the United States. That campaign is known as National Anti-Poll Tax Week, from May 11 to May 17. Its purpose is to bring freedom to large sections of the population of the South by abolishing the poll tax existing in eight southern states...
...poll tax is simply a direct tax levied by the state upon those who wish to vote; the sum levied is usually $1.50 or $2.00. As soon as a person becomes twenty-one he must pay his tax in order to vote. In some states, if he does not vote that year or the next, the taxes are added up, and before voting the citizen must pay the sum total of his taxes. Thus a large number of people, who have not voted for several years, are required to pay back taxes amounting to twenty dollars or more before balloting...
...only important legislative action to remedy this situation; the Geyser Anti-Poll Tax bill, lies buried in the House judiciary committee, and will not be proposed for consideration before the House. The principal objective of National Anti-Poll Tax Week is to blast this bill out of the committee by getting two hundred and eighteen signatures of congressmen on a discharge petition, the number of signatures necessary to bring the bill before the House. If the campaign is successful, and the "right to vote" becomes more than an idle phrase to ten million southern citizens, we can then perhaps...
...full page appeal for a last stand to prevent American intervention strikes the dominant editorial note, while other editorials applaud the Corporation's position on the Naval Academy incident, support National Anti-Poll Tax Week, and condemn civilian defense preparations as unnecessary and conducive to war hysteria...