Word: objections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Convention prohibits mining coasts or ports "with the sole object of intercepting commercial shipping." It also requires that warnings be issued about mine fields dangerous to neutrals, and that floating mines or mines breaking their moorings shall become harmless within one hour...
Where the low, bare limestone ridges of Sukkur, Sind slope like unkempt stairs down to the banks of the Indus, Indians who loudly object to fighting Germans in the name of Empire last week fought each other in the name of their various gods. Moslems, claiming the Manzilghaut (Government building) near the river as an ancient mosque site, besieged it, captured it, and threatened to hold it until nirvana-come. Whereupon Hindus swept the city, storming, looting, burning Moslem shops...
...enters the war, only 20% of young Catholics would volunteer, 44% submit to conscription, while 36% would conscientiously object. So suggested America (Jesuit weekly) on the basis of a poll of 54,000 students (both sexes) in 141 Catholic colleges and universities...
...enters the war, if Roman Catholics are drafted, and if they are not fully certain of the justice of the war, they must conscientiously object, "under pain of mortal sin." So, in the pacifist Catholic Worker, wrote Monsignor George Barry O'Toole, Catholic University philosophy professor. Said he: "Nowadays justification for an offensive war is practically impossible-the presumption is totally against it. Only if the Holy Father, whose decision in moral matters is infallible, were to call a crusade, could we be certain that sufficient justification existed...
...emphasized that the object of the visit is to present students with information on the training program following graduation, and not to cause undergraduate withdrawals from college...