Interventionist Forces Organize New League Urging Declaration of War

Latest addition to Harvard's brood of bawling all-aid-some-aid-no-aid groups is the Harvard League for A Declared War, founded by E. Bernard Fleischaker '42, who claims that national self-respect requires that we declare war so as to "unite all Americans in the spirit of sacrifice for the common cause."

The H.L.D.W. is a branch of the national organization founded last May in Connecticut. The group has had no meetings as yet but, following the "first principles" of psychology, intends to publish a frequent list of members on the assumption that others' names will attract new members.

Influenced by Fell

According to Fleischaker, the idea of forming the chapter at Harvard occurred to him after he noticed the results of the Alumni Bulletin Poll published in the CRIMSON, in which one fifth of the students questioned favored an immediate declaration.

"We already have 30 members, he stated last night," and are getting more every day." The league does not try to persuade people to change their minds about the war. Fleischaker emphasized, but "is just a pressure group for those who have come around to that point of view."

The organization's first advertisement appeared in the CRIMSON last Saturday, under the caption "Why a declaration of war is imperative now." It termed as "unworthy of a democracy the attempt to wage an undeclared war, and, condemned the "cowardly and hypocritical policy which is paralysing American action."

"We do not intend to become Nazis or slaves of Germany. America, WAKE UP! Let us fight tyrants now with a staunch ally rather than fight later alone ... The price of peace today is slavery tomorrow," the article concluded.