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...Student Union will hold its first membership meeting of the year at 7:30 o'clock this evening in the Lowell House Common Room, where the two rival factions, split on foreign policy, will battle for control of the organization...
Thus the President played on the press. Big sections of that press, even papers most violently pro-Willkie & anti-Roosevelt, gave up. Willkie news, Willkie speeches were buried deep inside; the front pages were split between Franklin Roosevelt...
With the resignation last night of Alan Gottlieb '41 as president of the Student Union, the long predicted split between the "full aid" and the "Anti-intervention" factions of the Union was made inevitable...
Touchy as a boil on the subject of foreign policy, which was heatedly discussed at last night's mass meeting, the Harvard Student Union will next week be split clean through, no matter which of its two factions wins out. Developing all last year, intellectual tension is now at the breaking point between President Alan Gottlieb's pro-aid-to-Britain, pro-Roosevelt group, and the Marx-Stange faction favoring no aid to Britain and branding Roosevelt as a war-monger. Inevitably the break will weaken the HSU, and tend to depress still further the strong but gradually waning student...
...just because it is the vitalizing force behind the Union, it seems unlikely that it can be so easily squelched. Hence a Gottlieb victory will probably make a split inevitable...