ANTI-WAR STRIKE
STUDENTS IN AMERICA WIDESPREAD MOVEMENT (Received April 23, 8.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, April 22 Students to the number of 500,000 in all parts of the United States to-day carried out their third annual anti-war strike, beginning at 11 a.m. and lasting an hour. Although disorders were expected arid 'the police gave special attention to the schools and colleges, only slight trouble was reported. Mass meetings were held over a wide area and for the first time the Oxford oath was introduced, modified to read: "We will refuse to support any war which the United States Government undertakes." Among the large universities where the students participated in the strike were Columbia, Yale and Princeton. One of the few scenes of disorder occurred at Temple University, Philadelphia, where opposition developed and some of the non-striking students were assaulted by strikers.
The reference in the cablegram to the "Oxford oath" is to a resolution passed by the Oxford Union as follows:—"In no circumstances will we fight for King and country."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22402, 24 April 1936, Page 15
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