Stinkers at Oxford

Brawn triumphed when 30 bulge-muscled undergraduates burst into the Oxford Union and tore out of its minute book a resolution adopted 275 to 153: Under no circumstances will we fight for King and Country (TIME, Feb. 27).

Though physically torn out and burned, this resolution had not been, in proper Parliamentary form, "expunged." Last week young Randolph Churchill, lecturing son of Statesman Winston and an ex-newshawk for William Randolph Hearst, hurried down from London to the Union with an expunging party of Old Oxonians.

With brawn in abeyance, members of the Union (undergraduates & alumni) again voted down (750 to 138) Son Churchill's motion to expunge.

With Oxford's Union--traditional debating forum of future British statesmen --thus on record by an overwhelming pacifist majority, members of the more obscure Manchester University Union bestirred themselves. Next evening they voted 371 to 196 that This house will under no circumstances fight for its King and Country. During the Oxford vote stink bombs were thrown, but proceedings at Manchester were strictly decorous.

Oxford's pacifism was scarcely more lamentable to many a proud Old Oxonian than a fact reported by The Spectator: "Jackets with cuffs and elbows strengthened with leather to prolong life are very common in the streets."

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