Word: pacifists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with respect to the subject of war and peace . . . A basic split in the mind and heart of this great soldier seems to have characterized his thinking throughout his career. In 1931, when he was Chief of Staff of the Army, he excoriated a group of clergymen for their pacifist position . . . Yet this is the same man who . . . foisted upon the Japanese people a new constitution outlawing war altogether . . . The question is which MacArthur are we to believe? MacArthur the soldier, patriot, nationalist-or MacArthur the author of the Japanese constitution...
More than 150 people have signed the pacifist petition to President Eisenhower asking that surplus food be sent to the needy, especially the Communist Chinese, John R. Butcher '57, chairman of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, said last night...
...obsession with death, all the dark and clinical tear and bleeding on the battlefields, in the bull rings, in the lunchroom where The Killers wait, with gloves on, for their victims. Yet somehow, in an atomic age, Hemingway seems much less macabre and violent than he did in the pacifist climate of the '30s. Hemingway still stands out from a pack of introspective and obscure writers with a dazzling simplicity, rarely politicking, never preaching, never using Freudian jargon...
...President has the legal right to send to food," said John R. Butcher '57, chairman of the pacifist group. "We want to get the ball rolling to show him that people will stand behind him if he does...
...pacifists will seek signatures in the House dining halls and at the graduate schools until Monday. Also include in the pacifist program is the shipment of little bags of rice, with a small tag attached explaining the situation, to President Eisenhower...