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...December of 1940 the Committee for Militant Peace Action conducted a mass demonstration in the Yard and 400 students, teachers, and workers proclaimed "1941 shall not be 1917." Approximately 100 members of the Militant Aid to Britain Committee quickly organized a counter-rally and crashed through the pacifist picket lines singing "There Shall Always Be an England" and carrying posters which read "pacifists are yellow." The Action group replied by chanting "keep America out of war," and by passing out "the Yanks are not coming" buttons...
...1920s and quickly gained a reputation as one of Germany's most promising young Protestant thinkers. After Hitler came to power, Bonhoeffer joined the anti-Nazi "Confessing Church," for which he later ran a secret, illegal seminary at Finkenwalde. In 1939, Bonhoeffer, who had once been a pacifist, refused the safety of exile in the U.S. Even though employed as a German intelligence agent, he secretly joined the underground...
...both the pacifist and non-pacifist, service in the Peace Corps seems every bit as much in the national interest as military service, and on a man-for-man basis, is probably more so. Congress has recognized this fact by offering the Corps whatever funds it has requested. And secretary of Defense McNamara concurred when he told a group of Peace Corps returnees last spring, "though we have three and three quarters million people in the Defense Department, I doubt very much that we have influenced the peace of the world as much as the small handful...
...produces heroes, so the antiwar movement must make martyrs. Last week's leading candidates were Pacifist David J. Miller, 23, a graduate of Jesuit-run Le Moyne College in Syracuse, who claims that "the only thing I'm expert at is refusing to be drafted," and Brown University Dropout David Mitchell, also 23, who founded the Brooklyn-based End the Draft Committee and its monthly publication Downdraft, but maintains that he would fight to defend his country against attack. Both refuse to apply for classification as conscientious objectors-though neither has shown any reticence about offering his conscience...
...breeders. He plans to string up the skeleton and then mow down the town bigwigs in wrathful reprisal, a mortal atonement for war guilt. His trigger finger is numbed by the playwright: "You can't cure the pox by further whoring." This is presumably Arden's pacifist manifesto...