Colleges Tabulate War Poll; Allport Sees Liberal Trend

Distinct trends toward internationalism and liberalism were the outstanding impressions received from the Post-War Readjustment Poll by Gordon W. Allport, professor of Psychology.

This trend finds its basis in a liberalization of former conditions here and the standpoint of the nation as a whole at present. Allport pointed out several factors from which he derived this conclusion.

In regard to the formation of a world union, the college favored it by a majority of 95 per cent as compared with 77 per cent of the nation supporting this proposition.

Split on Russia

The country was divided about half as to whether Russia will cooperate in maintaining the post-war peace. The College, however, placed its confidence in Russia's cooperation, over 75 per cent answering in the affirmative on this question.

As compared with seven and eleven years ago, when the College favored Hoover and Landon, a further proof of the liberal trend is revealed in the support of Roosevelt in 1944 if the war is still in progress. This same question of keeping the Democrats in power in 1944 was supported by an overwhelming majority in a poll taken in the Lowell House Junior Common Room last week. The decision against less government regulation shows another change in opinion in the last few years.

In accordance with the results of the Fortune Poll, showing that all youth stressed measures for security, the American Beveridge Plan received the support of the College, Preference shown and Northeastern most strongly in favor of the first possibility. Every college wanted less power for labor unions.

Claire Luce's "globaloney" speech was the only one not favored in the list, which included the speeches of Wallace and Churchill, the Atlantic Charter, and the Beveridge Plan.

The last question showed the most variation, ranging from the 80 per cent by Wellesley and Simmons, to the 35 per cent of Harvard men who thought "religion should assume a more important role in the post-war world." Fifty per cent of B. U. thought it would, against 70 per cent at Harvard who thought it would not