Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...patient men on patrol, riskers in convoy, victors at the River Plate, raiders of the Altmark. Warmly he lauded the Air Force; women who have lost their loves and sons, who fight with knitting needles and save every scrap; eager men who could not wait to be drafted; civil servants burning themselves and midnight oil; employers taking on unfamiliar chores; laborers sweeping away the concessions they had won in years of picket and strike; farmers, plowing shorthanded, clerks lending their savings, children leaving their homes...
...Will enjoy "full opportunity to continue their lives and occupations free from molestation, discrimination or persecution, with full freedom of religion and religious ceremonies, with equality of opportunities and of civil, legal and economic rights, as well as all other rights inherent in human beings...
Homeward bound from Spain was Flier Harold E. ("Whitey") Dahl, two years and seven months after his plane was shot down behind the Franco lines in the civil war. He became Nationalist Spain's best-known U. S. prisoner when his blonde dancer wife sent her picture with a plea for mercy to Francisco Franco and got the Generalissimo a lot of bad publicity by publishing his reply.† Said Edith Dahl in Philadelphia, where she is doing a Spanish dance number: "Maybe we'll settle down and raise a family." Also looking forward to Dahl...
...objector had to appear before a local tribunal. In many cases the "conchies" were coached in advance by pacifist bodies-the Peace Pledge Union, the Fellowship of Reconciliation-whose representatives sat in the courtrooms. Fifteen per cent were given unconditional exemption from military service; 45% were allowed to undertake civil work or training; 23% were put down for noncombatant military service; 17% were rejected...
...with France's. Many a French pacifist is now in jail, including Henri Roser, secretary of the French Fellowship of Reconciliation. Lecturing on peace in the U. S. last week, Muriel Lester, dynamic British pacifist, friend of Mahatma Gandhi, declared: "One can be proud of Britain's civil liberty." Example: the Government recently permitted Canon Charles Earle Raven to broadcast on absolute Christian pacifism...