Word: pacifists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Addressed to President Eisenhower, the petition reads simply: "We, the undersigned, wish to express our opposition to United States intervention in Indo-China." The group had considered endorsing several longer and more detailed statements on the Indo-China crisis, issued by national pacifist organizations, but finally settled on the shorter form in the hope of eliciting greater student response...
...Fellowship of Reconciliation, a 20-member student pacifist organization, will meet Monday and probably decide to circulate a petition in the Houses against U.S. involvement in Indochina. College students must express their opposition to the fighting now, the pacifists fell, because the Federal Administration is currently "attempting to feel out American opinions for or against intervention...
Died. Charles Yale Harrison, 55, newspaperman turned author (Nobody's Fool), best known for his bestselling pacifist novel, Generals Die in Bed (1930); of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
Roosevelt had a poor opinion of Wilson ("a scholarly, acrid pacifist of much ability and few scruples") and a poorer one of the Democratic Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan ("an amiable, windy creature who knows almost nothing"). When World War I began. Roosevelt was an interventionist. He saw the invasion of Belgium as a desperate threat to the fabric of international law. and denounced Wilson's "spiritless neutrality" in the face of it. ("I should have backed the protest by force.") Repeatedly he offered to furnish and equip a volunteer cavalry division for emergency war service...
...British Methodist Church last July, he called, in his acceptance speech, upon his fellow Methodists for "greater adventure in open-air evangelism . . . lively, informed, joyous . . . work and worship." He continued the lunch-hour meetings at Tower Hill, where he has been preaching his vigorous version of socialist-pacifist Christianity for the past 26 years, and did his best to follow founder John Wesley's example of making all England his parish...