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Said Philosopher Blanshard, a Quaker convert: pacifism is "plainly immoral." A Friend, he maintained, can take up arms and still be a Friend. He rejected the position that "the use of organized force by one group upon another is always wrong." Since Japan invaded Manchuria, he wrote, pacifists have "made the renunciation of force into a Moloch whose idolatry had to be maintained, no matter what the cost in lawlessness, blood and misery...
Said Philosopher Blanshard, a Quaker convert: pacifism is "plainly immoral." A Friend, he maintained, can take up arms and still be a Friend. He rejected the position that "the use of organized force by one group upon another is always wrong." Since Japan invaded Manchuria, he wrote, pacifists have "made the renunciation of force into a Moloch whose idolatry had to be maintained, no matter what the cost in lawlessness, blood and misery...
...teachers from glutted areas (e.g., New York City) to the places where shortages exist; 2) a teaching program to salvage the illiterate 10,000,000; 3) a plan to cope with teacher shortages in two critical war subjects-200 colleges and universities will give free courses this summer to convert teachers of other subjects (English, Latin, etc.) into math and physics teachers...
Chekotikhin thought that big American corporations hired "armed thugs to intimidate the workers and occasionally murder them." But though Author Reynolds liked Russians, the Bolshies did not convert him. Says he: "I left almost as ignorant of Communism as when I arrived...
...scheme smacked of World War I's S.A.T.C. (Students' Army Training Corps), a flop that cost some $160 millions. But Conant argues that S.A.T.C. had too short a trial. The president of Harvard's plan would certainly be expensive, and it would more or less convert all colleges into West Points and Annapolises. But, says Conant, it would also restore "an essential element in our democracy-the birthright of opportunity which in an earlier age was the gift of the American frontier...