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What was not precisely routine was be absence of more serious violence. Last spring, members of the committee for Nonviolent Action (CNVA), he pacifist group that was sponsoring the Boston to Provincetown walk, were beaten severly in front of a South Boston courthouse. The angry mood that led to these attacks had not disappeared, last Saturday; it was merely frustrated by a Boston Police department, which, embarrassed by a conspicuous absence in front of be court, provided the march with heavy protection. In fact, wherever the march went, local police covered well. But it took only one slip to inform...
...call yourselves Americans" feeling: Almost universally, the marchers were seen as unpatriotic. "You're all yellow bastards," one man yelled at the group. The pacifists tried to argue that America had no right to impose its will upon Sough Vietnam. "If there were an election in South Vietnam," said one pacifist to a hostile spectator, "and if a majority of the people said they wanted the Communists and wanted to distribute land to everyone, would we have a right to say NO?" Without hesitation, the boy responded "Yes, we could," and then proceeded to explain why. Repeatedly, the argument came...
James Hayes, head of the march, which is sponsored by a pacifist group called the Committee for Nonviolent Action (CNVA), described the incident in a telephone interview last night...
...Pacifist Protest. Virtually ignoring the torrent of expensive wedding gifts, White House handouts played up the sentimental, homey and offbeat: from Uncle Tony Taylor in Texas, a set of six silver syllabub cups that had belonged to Grandmother Minnie Lee Patillo Taylor; Texas-shaped cookie cutters from Mrs. Jake Pickle, wife of the Congressman who holds L.B.J.'s old seat; from Mrs. Orville Freeman, a jeweled Pakistani nose ring, symbolizing female submission to her mate (who, vows the bride, will never become "Mister Luci Johnson"). The bipartisan House leadership took up a collection for a congressional gift, but Iowa...
...Socialist, he was a pacifist. But he was also tough. When the Germans invaded Belgium in 1940, the German ambassador called on Foreign Minister Spaak to read a statement from Hitler. The German never got a chance to speak. "My turn first, Mr. Ambassador," said Spaak, before he threw the German out. Escaping from the Wehrmacht, Spaak spent the war in London as Foreign Minister of the Belgian government-in-exile...