FACULTY DEFENSE GROUP IS STYMIED IN ORGANIZING ITS WESTERN AFFILIATES

The attempts of the Faculty Defense Group's Committee on Correspondence to form defense organizations on other college campuses indicate the sharp geographical division of sentiment over the war issues.

Coastal Colleges in both the West and the East have responded with considerable enthusiasm, while in the middle West and the South strong isolationism have generally thwarthed the committee's efforts. Nonetheless, in almost all universities contacted some form of defense organization favoring "full aid" has taken root.

Responses to the letters sent out by the Harvard Committee in July and again in late September have fallen into three categories-colleges with organizations exactly patterned on that here, colleges with strong William Allen White Committees, and colleges who are cooperating with the government through scientific and technical groups working on defense problems.

Legitimate children of American Defense, Harvard Group exist most prominently at Dartmouth and Tufts in the East; Claremont, which includes several lesser institutions, on the Pacific coast; and at Duke in the South. At all these places the feeling among the faculty is in general support of the beliefs favored by our committee and there is considerable momentum in the movements.

At both Yale and Princeton, William Allen White Committees to Defend America are powerful. Not nearly as extensive in scope as the organization here, they are more firmly united in support of a single minded policy and work much more closely with the town.

Although the White committees extend through the western colleges, they have much less general support. Replies received by the Harvard Committee indicate that in many colleges the full aid sentiment is used up in the existing machinery, and the formation of further groups is impossible.

Even in Chicago, where war sentiment in the faculty is strong, no group has sprung up. Feeling in the mid-western colleges seems of a passive sort. "The war is three thousand miles away. Elaborate efforts at preparation will only tend to lead us in".

Technical groups to aid in the working out of defense problems have sprung up throughout the country and are operating in all Eastern universities, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia particularly.