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Peace Rallies Students'
'Birthday Greetings'
to Hitler
By Celeste Strack
NatioMl
student secretary,
Communi!t
Lealjue
young
Today's student peace demonstrations throughout
our nation will
hand Hitler a significant "birthday
present" in the shape of timely and
overwhelming endorsement of President Roosevelt's call to Hitler and
Mtt:lSolini to keep the peace for at
least ten years-underlining
this by
support to the President's proposals
to amend neutrality
to distingnish
between aggressors and their vic-
tims,
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Since thl! first student peace action in 1935, American
students
have come a long Wi\Y. The early
actions, usually strikes, served to
awaken and mobilize the students'
abhorence of war, but were colored
by the isolationist-pacifist
outlook
expressed in the now Wholly discredited Oxford Pledge. Last year,
the tide had changed considerably
and
most
demonstrations
spoke
up for lifting the embargo on Loyalist Spain. But by this Year,
Munich .had taugnt, American students that peace can be saved only
by collective resistance to aggres810n anywhere, with its backbone
in collaboration between the great
democracies of the United states
and the Soviet Union.
All types of student organizations are today swinging over to the
viewpoint of the American Student
Union, which was the first student
organizatlon to take its stand for a
peace bloc against. aggression. They
include even groups previously inftuenCed by isolationism,
such as
the student
Christian
Movement
and the National Student Federation of America.
ISOLATE ISOLATIONISTS
Thls shift, dictated by simply human morality
and awareness
of
growing danger to our own land, is
still inadequately
CITY COLLEGE STUDENTS meeting today in Lewisohn Stadium will hear Fannie Hur~t, noted
fiction writer, address the sixth student peace rally. Above C.O.N.Y. tudents are s,hown filling the
stadium at last year's successful meeting.
expressed
in the
United Student
Peace Committee
which should take national leadership in the student peace movement, The US PC is being hamstrung by the dilatory tactics of the
isolationist
"Youth Com mit tee
Against War," controlled
by the
Young People's SOcialist League,
and the paper organizations around
it. On the campus, however, the
'Irotl;kyite-isolationl1:t
bloc is being
rapidly Isolated and defeated.
TodaY's demonstration
is note-j
"..orthy,
0, for its emphasis on the
o
Hey. !he Inter-;
Student's Business Is
Peace Friends'
d Democracy On ~ampus Usel
Pea
;NaZI War Cry
Morris U. Scha pes, Noted eac ers' Leader, Says
Today's Demonstrations Show That 'Education Has Borne Fruit'
By Morris
. Schappes
College students, it se
s
that the best way to J:\1il1dheir
deciding what their buain ss is.
have defined their busi ess as
democracy.
They are recognizing
that the
threat
to this prime
Interest of
theirs comes externally from the
Rome-Berlin-Tokio
axis and its re-
'/
to me, are rapidly learning
own business is to begin by
In increasing numbers they
the business of peace and
S-S-Stuttering
Students 'Hail'
.,.
HItler s BIrthday
cently added satellite, fascist Spain,
"Birthdav zreettnzs" to Adolf'
and internally from those Who take
Hitler on his 50th birthday today
their politics from Berlin.
Among
are being sent to Nazi consulates
these latter are imperialists
like
by outstanding
student leaders
Hoover and those Wall Street interthis arternoon on behalf of variests for whom he speaks, as well as
ous peace actions.
such former progressives as Senator
The "greetings" include: SupNye and Oharles A. Beard, and the
oort of Pres. Roosevelt's peace
Trotzkyite
sects, pacifists and the
plea and resolutions urging boyother unassorted
elements in the
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azi goo s an
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fast diminishing camp of the isolachoice "gifts" to the Nazi dietionists.
tator.
FALLEN IDOLS
Brooklyn College students are
The intelligent student today, In
sending
a message
punning:
stressing the link between peace and
"Dear Adolf stop Heard your
democracy, rejects the dangerous
latest demands stop Have you
position of one of his former idols,
heard ours stop stop stop."
Bertrand
Russell who now pub- -I licly
admits that he wants peace
even if he has to pay the price 01
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Mr. SchapPeB is a membtr Of
the Executive Board of Local 537
(College Teachers UnioJlt) of the
Aml!rican Feduation
of Teacher!.
Urge U. S. Joi
IWith USSR t
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Save i Peace
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e Splitters
Combat Roosevelt's
Peace Moves
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By Rut
Watt
New yor/c. state
young
StUdent sec: etary,
Communist League
If there's a Trotzkyite on your
campus, you'll see an ally of Hitler
.at work today. The Trotzkyites and
their friends of the so-called "Youth
Committee Against War" (YCAW)
do not attack
the Rome-BerlinTokio war-makers. They're gunning
for the peace policy of President
Roosevelt instead.
The "Youth Committee" says it
has a. program "to keep America
out of war:' This turns out to .ie
a demand in its national "call" for
"compulsory and strengthened
neutrality It'gisla~ion.'' Not a whit different from the impassioned
defense of the "Neutrality Law" bj'
Nazi Propaganda Minister Goebbels'
Del' Angriff.
'I his "call" also brushes off the
almost-forgctten
Oxford
Pledge
"never to bear arms in defense of
the country." And it also supports
the Ludlow amendment
of which
President Roosevelt said:
"It would encourage
other nalions to believe that they could vio;ll.te American rights with :mpur:ity."
Which is just what Hitler, Hoover,
Hearst lind YCA W would like.
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YCA W
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