Word: pacifists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only person known to have been barred from speaking on the campus under the new ruling is Dr. Cecil E. Hinshaw, a Quaker pacifist, who finally addressed a student group off campus...
Hastings William Sackville Russell, twelfth Duke of Bedford, a pamphleteering pacifist and animal lover who once had a private zoo for a hobby and became an expert on the mating habits of spiders, announced from his home in Woburn, England that he has developed a strain of homing parrots. They fly free during the day, he said, but return home at night to eat, sleep and breed...
Communism's dove of peace was hatched long ago. The Russian Revolution of 1917, in fact, was achieved largely by pacifist slogans. Then the Bolsheviks went on, as Lenin knew they would, to make a bloody civil war. Since then, the dove has been more or less important in Communist mythology. To understand what happened to the dove at San Francisco, it is necessary to understand the recent rebirth of Communism's strange bird...
...except a pacifist or partisan of the Kremlin," explains Bevan, "would argue that military strength is not needed to deter the rulers of Soviet Russia." But rearmament is proceeding too rapidly and may spoil the chances of a peaceful settlement. "In 1953 . . . the Americans will possess a dominance in armed strength . . . greater than that which was ever possessed by any other country in peacetime. It is not unknown for a giant to wish to use his strength, even though he is not attacked." Few Britons, except the editors of the Daily Worker and Bevan's followers, had anything good...
...Monopolistic. 4. Pacifist...