The Archive · 1937

U.S. STUDENTS REJECT

*NON-FIGHT" PLEDGE — A.S.U. Convention Approve Japanese Boycott Move

Poughkeepsie, Dec. 29.

The American Student Union today rejected commitment to the Oxford Pledge, an oath not to support the nation's government "in any war it may undertake? The decision was reached at the convention of the AS.U, attended by 500 delegates representing 20,000 students in 150 universities throughout the country, The convention approved a peace programme calling! for firstly, immediate steps to restrain Fascist ageres-sion by contributing America's influence in behalf of world peace, secondly. American leadership in proclaiming an aggressor and modification of the Neutrality Act to permit discrimination against declared aggressors; thirdly, a boycott against apanese goods; and fourth: opposi-ion to preparations for w in the United States—United Press

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