Word: antiwar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that it was meant by destiny to rule the world will inevitably be destroyed . . . The Anglo-Saxons are in serious danger of taking just that step." Optimistically, Wallace added that he hoped "we may all soon meet in Moscow." At a $10-a-plate dinner, backed by a huge "antiwar" mural by Masses & Mainstream Cartoonist William Cropper, stout, bearded Charles Stewart, public-relations man for the Churchman, took up a collection. He raised close to $20,000 from the 1,900 diners, with the exhortation: "This meeting is only a beginning...
Erich Maria Remarque confessed, after 17 years, that he had not planned All Quiet on the Western Front as an "antiwar book." Said he: "I was simply interested in portraying the reaction of youth facing death." To writer Remarque the really effective anti-war book would be a picture-book. Nevertheless he was still writing, was following up a new novel (see BOOKS) with yet another, about German crimes and German mistakes. "The human mind forgets too quickly," explained between-the-wars best-seller Remarque. "The simple fact that a man has survived the war . . . makes him, after a short...
Sergeant Selden Rodman, editor-on-leave of Common Sense, now stationed in Washington, D.C.: "All serious war poetry is antiwar poetry. . . . Some of the best war poetry has been written by poets who have never been near a battlefield-witness Thomas Hardy, Rilke, Rimbaud. But . . . almost all the poetry glorifying war has [also] been written by people who have never been near a battlefield...
...chaplains, were now authorized. Methodists may now also pray for victory. But it took a whole day's tense debate on the floor of the Church's quadrennial General Conference,* which met (for ten days) in Kansas City's municipal auditorium, to make Methodism reverse its antiwar stand...
...conversation around to Hamburg two or three times he said: "You understand I cannot talk about Germany. I am a good German and besides I wouldn't last ten minutes when I get back under German jurisdiction if I talked here about anything like bomb damage or antiwar feeling among the German people or economic conditions. You understand my position." He pulled his forefinger across his throat...