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Speakers for UMT were Jack Casey 3L and Robert A. N. Fisher '46, both members of the HYRC Speakers Bureau, which grooms club members for speaking before outside organizations. Opposing them were Geoffrey W. White '48, a member of the Harvard Youth for Democracy, and Miss Betsy Cushing, chairman of the Greater Boston Council of Students Opposed to UMT...
...HYRC's stand on the controversial issue was determined by the clause in their platform pledging support of UMT only as long as no satisfactory substitute for it could be found...
Treasurer for the Committee on Wallace, Lazare Nesin '48 emphasized that while the Committee is taking the initiative in opposing UMT, it "hopes for support from other political organizations on the campus." It is, however, more definite on UMT than other groups...
First the Committee plans to distribute leaflets showing what UMT is, and endeavor to find out the reaction of the student body to it. "We must clarify the issues first." Nesin says, "by making plain what our position is." He cautioned, however, that the Committee is not a "Wallace for President" organization...
...cannot lick something with nothing," Wallace says. "You cannot stop UMT without putting something better before the American people." He goes on to advocate universal disarmament and a world police force as a possible alternative...