Word: pacifists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Labor Party split was symbolized by the fact that Harold Lawrence, running for the House of Commons in a by-election at Bristol, is an all-out, no-arms, no-armor pacifist and the official candidate of the Labor Party, which is committed to rearmament. Attlee refused to send Lawrence the usual letter of endorsement, but his approval by the party executive committee was not revoked...
...rumpled grey suit, stepped on to the Senate floor to speak his mind in the Great Debate. The Senate listened with respect. In his 58 years, Paul Douglas had been a college professor, a nationally known economist, a reforming member of Chicago's city council, a Quaker and pacifist. In 1942, at the age of 50, he had become a World War II marine. Now, after two years in the Senate, he had emerged as a leader of the little band of Administration Democrats who spoke more from conviction and a sense of duty than from considerations of partisan...
Among the many voices raised to counsel, berate or admonish the U.S. last week, none rang more determinedly than that of a Quaker who at one time or another has been a pacifist college professor, a Socialist, a nationally known economist, a hardworking politician, and a combat soldier. It was the voice of Illinois' able Senator Paul Douglas, and it was raised in three major speeches and three national radio forums...
...which, for a year, various members of the congregation of a Midwest church tried to do just that. Author Sheldon's conclusions: the Christ-conscious turn-of-the-century man would lend a helping hand to the poor, campaign against the consumption of alcohol and tobacco, remain staunchly pacifist at whatever cost. Sheldon's In His Steps was stuffy in style, contrived in plot, and contained some of the most ludicrous dialogue ever written. But it went to the hearts of thousands. Within a few months it had sold more than 100,000 copies, has since become...
...emulate Christ, they react to the atomic age much as their grandparents reacted to the times of Grover Cleveland. The local department-store owner builds prayer rooms for his customers and employees and sets up a profit-sharing plan. The newspaper publisher devotes his editorial page to the pacifist point of view. ("The world would have actually been better off if our nation had stayed out of both wars entirely.") The town's aging millionaire attacks greed and monopoly as the roots of all modern evil...