PACIFIST STUDENTS
U.S. Universities’ Anti-War Strike THE OXFORD RESOLUTION By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright NEW YORK, April 23. Half a million students all over the nation staged their third annual antiwar strike to-day, beginning at eleven in the morning and lasting an hour. Although disorders were expected and the police gave special attention to schools and colleges, only the minimum of trouble was repotted Mass meetings were widely held, and for the first time the Oxford oath was introduced in a modified form. It read: "We will retuse to support any war which the United States Government undertakes.” Among the large universities whore the students part.c'.pated, were Columbia, Yale and Princeton. One of the few scenes of disorder .’Ceurred at Temple University (Philadelphia), where opposition developed and part of the student body mauled the strikers.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 112, 24 April 1936, Page 6
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