Word: pacifists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...student pacifist on temporary leave from the University faces the possibility of federal prosecution for his stand as a conscientious objector...
...There is a glimmer of hope," he admits, "in the success of some of my friends in getting a reversal over the draft boards rulings against their conscientious objector belief." One pacifist friend, Christopher Fried 3G, was able to get special draft status upon a special appeal, after both the local and state boards had turned him down...
...Harvard Fellowship for Reconciliation will continue to work actively for non-violent action despite an attempt to obstruct its work by members of the Conservative Club, the president of the Pacifist group said last night...
John D. Butcher '57 asserted that anyone may attend a Fellowship meeting and he did not object to the Conservatives' presence for that reason. "But they tried to twist the pacifist purposes of our group," Butcher said after last night's meeting...
...Butcher said, "Our executive committee will check Cole's attempts to neutralize our group. We did not realize what he was doing." Butcher added that the Fellowship's executive committee would table Cole's resolution to withdraw the group from active participation against war. Cole told the group such pacifist views were illegal under the Selective Service...