"This thing has ceased to be a joke": The Veterans of Future Wars and the Meanings of Political Satire in the 1930s.

The article discusses the American political activist group Veterans of Future Wars, established in 1936 by a group of Princeton University college students led by Lewis Jefferson Gorin Jr. The group used satire in their manifesto published in the periodical "Daily Princetonian" to promote the payment of a bonus to men eligible for the draft, who would eventually be called for future military service in Europe and should be allowed to enjoy veteran benefits before their military service rendered them disabled or dead. The student activists gained in popularity across the U.S. and became a leading antiwar organization for a few brief months before disintegrating.