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| I Jers | | i I 1 q ! t J . . T > x Bitterly commented: pon Smmormney M6 ean ying at : “Peng chubbed to death” a ’$. THE NATURE OF THE CRIME THe wwmesrreap concerted campaign of propaganda, intimidation, repression and vidlence had failed, however, ~ to dam the ground swel]l of anti-war sentiment surging es grimly Ez 2 troops on the "desperately held beachhead in Korea, more and more citizens on the home front were demanding an end to the sanguinary military adventure. Press and radio polls showed overwhelming majorities opposed to continued American participation in the war. By mid summer the number of young men failing to answer their draft calls had reached such proportions nationally that the Egure was being kept a military secret and special FBI contingents had been formed to round up the delinquents. ‘ Regarding peace activities during the carly days of August, the National Guardian reported: - From thousands of pulpits in hundreds of U. S. com- wy munities religious loaders were resisting the tide toward war... From coast to coast a smal] army of brave peaple were stil! ringing doorbells, cauvassing their neighbors, holding street comer rallies, getting more signatures to peace petitions. In many Jocalitics this had become dan- gerous but the work went on . By August the Peace Information Center had distributed throughout the country more than a million peace emblems, pamphlets, bulletins and petitions. Included among the petitions were tens of thousands of copies of the World im ina