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...sponsored by a pacifist organization identifying itself as the Veterans Coalition for Community Affairs, held Memorial hall for 24 hours, during which "business was allowed to carry on as usual," Richard B. Shanor, a spokesman for the administration, said...
...with certain other travelers, the agency interviewed a number of returning missionaries about conditions in the countries they had left. Several Protestant and Catholic mission boards are now discussing whether to direct their people to have no contact at all with the CIA -a policy that the pacifist Church of the Brethren established last October...
...charges against them and with no hope for a speedy trial. Though their names have not been made public, government spokesmen admit privately that the prisoners include many leaders of India's opposition parties, as well as elder statesman Jayaprakash Narayan, 72, an associate of India's pacifist father-figure Mohandas Gandhi (see box following page...
...reader all along and it's never become clear why posterity will regard him at all. Swados never establishes Lumen as a representative figure like Rubashov in Darkness at Noon: at best, he's a composite of Bertrand Russell and William O. Douglas and maybe some World War I pacifist like Roger Baldwin. All we know is that we're supposed to have read about him in the newspapers and that like another diarist. Leon Trotsky, he finds old age creeping up on him suddenly but would rather talk about more public matters...
Like most Hiroshimans, Shigeto is a pacifist. He believes that "the nobility of human spirit will surely prevent" another Hiroshima. "Isn't it strange," he says, "that the worst disaster in human history should have turned me into a helpless optimist?" Indeed, despite his city's ordeal, Shigeto has been so impressed by the strength and courage displayed by Hiroshima's victims that he has unbounded faith in man's prospects for survival. That feeling was bolstered recently when he learned that the first two victims he treated after the blast are still alive today...