Word: pacifists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Student Pacifist Society will join the ranks of College organizations next Tuesday if the Council approves their constitution. The group secured Dean Watson's approval last week...
...Harvard Peace Fellowship designed to spread education of pacifist principles was formally organized last night...
...meeting John Swomley, Jr., of the National Council Against Conscription, showed "growing regimentation of the military over American life," and outlined several practical pacifist methods...
Died. Rosika Schwimmer, 70, Hungarian-born women's suffrage pioneer and pacifist, dominant figure behind Henry Ford's ill-starred "Peace Ship" expedition to Europe in 1915; in Manhattan. Convinced that War I could be ended by a meeting of peace pilgrims, she induced Ford to head the U.S. delegation, pledged to "getting the boys out of the trenches by Christmas." In 1929 she was denied citizenship by the U.S. Supreme Court because she refused to say that she would bear arms in defense...
Most of the recent books about Tolstoy have emphasized his old age-as dean of Russian letters, Christian pacifist, anti-patriot and abysmally unhappy husband. Tolstoy As I Knew Him, published in Russia in 1926 and now fully translated into English for the first time, has the charm and importance of showing him in the full flush of youth, when he most delighted in the very things which he later renounced. A glimpse of the Czar, "sitting so handsomely on his horse," could make him feel "clogged with tears"; and " [life's] greatest happiness," he still believed then, "Iies...