Word: antiwar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months rumors of a Japanese All Quiet on the Western Front have trickled into the U. S. The book's author, so rumor ran, was a Japanese corporal serving in China, but the book was antiwar, its sales large* (500,000 copies in Japan). Last week U. S. readers could see for themselves "Corporal Ashihei Hino's" gun-sight ac count of the Japanese invasion of China...
This week, just as Soviet citizens were busy celebrating "AntiWar Day" (Stalin's name for the anniversary of the declaration of war by Imperial Germany in 1914 upon Imperial Russia), they were quietly informed by the Soviet official news agency Tass that the defeated Japanese forces had nevertheless "occupied Soviet territory to a depth of six miles." Next, Japanese official press wires reported that 50 Soviet bombing planes had appeared over Korea this week, bombed several villages and railways. Five planes were shot down before they could get back to Russia...
Lysistrata has been repeatedly revived (most recently on Broadway in Gilbert Seldes' version, 1930) because: 1). it is a classic; 2) it is smutty; 3) it is antiwar; 4) it is funny. In The Impregnable Women, Author Linklater follows his model with near-sighted intensity. Lady Scrymgeour puts a stop to the war between Great Britain and France with as much zeal and dispatch as Lysistrata put a stop to the war between Athens and Sparta. The Impregnable Women is less light-headed than either Lysistrata or Author Linklater's earlier books. It exhibits his glib facility...
...danger is rather that we have become so used to the idea as to be callous to it. The purpose of actions such as the Armistice Day Weekend actions planned by the students' committee is to combat this callousness, and to organize into an effective force the antiwar sentiment of the great majority of the student body. The actions are taken during Armistice Day Weekend because we are convinced that action to prevent future wars is the most effective tribute to those who have died in the wars of the past...
With an audience of six Cadets, two Pathe News cameramen, and 50 curious spectators, the much-publicized antiwar demonstration took place without incident on the steps of Memorial Hall at noon last Saturday. Speakers from the National Student League, the League for Industrial Democracy, and the Episcopal Theological Seminary hurled furious denunciations against war, against the CRIMSON, and against the Roosevelt administration, but there was no violence. The expected interference from the Martial Club, an organization that calls itself "pacifist but opposed to any form of demonstration," failed to materialize...