Word: polling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week a Gallup poll pointed up a major shift in U. S. opinion. A 1937 poll had reported that 64% of U. S. citizens thought it had been a mistake for the U. S. to go into World War I; only 28% thought not. To the same question last week, 42% thought that U. S. entrance into World War I had not been a mistake, 39% still believed that...
...student named Robert Douglas Stuart Jr. deplored Yale University President Charles Seymour's espousal of open aid to the Allies, believing it would lead the U. S. into war. Furthermore, he thought Seymour's views were not those of the student body and got up a poll showing 3-to-1 on his side. General Robert E. Wood (Sears, Roebuck) heard of the Yalemen's activities, asked Stuart to visit him. Out of their conversation grew the America First Committee...
...believe that the results of our poll bear out the conclusion that "Harvard feels British victory essential to national defense." Here are the facts: 37 per cent of the total number who voted checked the statement which read "Hitler must go even if we have to fight." 49.3 per cent checked, "British victory is essential to our national defense." Leaving out duplications we find that slightly over 60 per cent took at least the weaker of the two positions. If you take either of these stands, you necessarily accept the policy of all necessary...
...Crimson charges that "very few of the actual questions asked are reprinted." This is untrue since 11 out of the 12 poll questions were reported on. For the sake of the record, here are the correct figures. "This is not our fight," 16.8 per cent. "Let Britain save herself this time," 9.5 per cent. "A Nazi victory won't affect our position," 3 per cent. "I like the British and want to help them," 20 per cent. "A British victory is essential to our national defense," 37 per cent. The one result that we did not print, for reasons...
Your right to question the accuracy of our poll cannot be denied. But by questioning our "devotion to truth," by using such terms as "examples of distortion," "hedging,' and "suspicion," you leave realm of argument. You have a right to question, but you do not have a right to accuse falsely; your right to criticize does not extend to the right to slander. The ethics of the Crimson as well as the policies it advocates stand in danger of repudiation by the students of Harvard. Richard M. Haber '41, For the Editors of Defense