PACIFIST CONTROVERSY

Taranaki Daily News, 20 February 1933, Page 5

PACIFIST CONTROVERSY

OXFORD UNIVERSITY RAID

OFFENDING MINUTE BURNED

VINDICATION OF. LOYALTY

“WHITE FEATHER BRIGADE”

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyrigm. London, February 17.

The pacifist controversy at Oxford University reached a climax to-night when a party of undergraduates, headed by stalwart rowing men, raided a meeting of the Union Society, seized a minute book and tore out a page recording a resolution passed by 275 votes to 153 at the last meeting, “That this house in no circumstances will fight for the King and the country.” This excessive pacifism produced angry protests from present and past Oxfordians, as did the receipt of a parcel of 275 white feathers which, it is rumoured, came from the Women’s College. A special meeting of the union was called for a recision of the offending resolution. Later the minutes were carried in triumph round the university and burned at the foot of the Martyr’s Memorial. Oxford thus vindicated its loyalty.

The latest craze at Oxford is membership of the “White Feather Brigade.”