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Every student from the most zealous interventionist to cautious conservative will have the opportunity to make his convictions part of a composite Harvard opinion on the war tomorrow when a comprehensive poll, under the direction of the CRIMSON, will try to find out how the College stands...
Last week the Gallup Poll (which had previously shown that President Roosevelt had the support of an unprecedented 71% of the electorate) showed in preliminary figures that only 54% endorsed the Lend-Lease Bill, most of them with modifications. The discrepancy was significant. To Pundit Walter Lippmann opposition to the bill was a refusal to admit the importance of the crisis. To Pundit Mark Sullivan it was a sign of confusion over the objectives of the bill itself. But whatever course of action the U. S. chose, its attitude had all the earmarks of a gigantic national self-deception...
...ratification has proceeded painfully against organized opposition and unorganized indifference. To date only 28 of the necessary 36 States have joined the humanitarian line-up. The Amendment has been fought all along the way by the propaganda and high-pressure lobbying of powerful interest groups. But a nation-wide poll conducted in 1937 gives a majority for the Amendment in every State, and a 76 per cent majority in favor for the country as a whole. It is time that this sentiment be translated into action...
...Britons felt about knuckling down to labor dictation, even with a Government pledge that full rights and privileges would be restored after the war, was indicated in a Gallup poll. To the question: "Do you think that the Government should be able to make people work where and when it thinks fit?" 31% said "Yes"; 25% said "Yes, with qualifications"; 30% said "No"; 14% had no opinion...
...think our country's future safety depends on England winning this war?" asked the Gallup Poll. "Yes," said 68% of the nation's voters, of whom 85% were certain that Britain would lose if the U. S. stopped helping her. Opinions of others...