Word: pacifists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Speaker of the House, calling for a voice vote, heard a thin scattertering of noes, he ordered a formal vote. As Eden watched glumly, 263 Tories trooped into the voting lobby, trailed by one Socialist. Four pacifist Socialists made their lonely way to the other lobby to vote no; the rest of the Laborites kept their places. Attlee sat slumped on the front bench, doodling and looking unhappy. He had prevented a larger rebellion in Labor's ranks, but had left his party in the craven position of refusing to vote for agreements it had publicly supported...
...Other Cheek. Boeke's idealism did not stop with money. Back in Britain during World War I, he tried to tell the English to turn the other cheek, soon found himself languishing in jail as a pacifist. In 1918, he was deported to Holland; but by the time he and his family settled in Bilthoven, he had already acquired other convictions. For one thing, he decided that all governments were based on force and that therefore he could have nothing to do with them or their byproducts. He refused to use the railways, telephones or post office; and though...
...nothing premiers like Pinay and Laniel have thoroughly discredited this segment. And since the French people also have little faith in the militant Gaullist Right, they would probably vote for a coalition of groups farther left than Mendes-France. Such a Popular Front would bring with it a defeatist, pacifist policy that would undo much of what has already been accomplished towards strengthening the West. Dulles' trip to Paris this week shows that U.S. planners have finally seen the fallacy of a one-shot cure-all for the ills of Europe. For those who would fight communism with slogans...
...objector. Under the Selective Service Act he had elected to work off his obligation with two years of service contributing to "the maintenance of the national health, safety or interest." Of the 4,000 Quakers, Mennonites, members of the Assemblies of God and Church of the Brethren, or other pacifist sects who choose this course each year, most go to work as attendants in mental hospitals. Only a hardy few volunteer for guinea-pig duty...
...orchard on the line of march, Peale had the presence of mind to call after them an order to fall out. Also, he made warm boots for his men in winter. But if they loved him, the enemy had little reason to fear him. He became a pacifist who passionately hated war and dueling (any duelist, he remarked, "stinks ... as much while living as he would in four days after being shot...