Word: pacifists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ninety-one-year-old Yukio Ozaki's stubbornness and his disagreement with his countrymen have not been confined to the cherry tree incident. All his life Ozaki has been a democrat, pacifist and internationalist in a land primarily dominated by soldiers and all-out nationalists. Paradoxically, Ozaki's heresies have won him wide respect and an unparalleled political career. Mayor of Tokyo for nine years and twice a cabinet minister, he was elected to the first Japanese Diet in 1890 and has been a member of every one since. Says his daughter, "Voting for father is a habit...
Author Peter (The Path of Thunder) Abrahams, himself a South African Negro, makes this clear in his persuasive, homespun novel. As the Boers marched north, the beer-guzzling Matabele King Mzilikazi teetered in confusion between the war & peace factions of his court. Yet even his favorite pacifist counselor advised him to fight when the Boers invaded Matabele territory: "The land is ours. Let us call forth our soldiers and fight...
...where he edited the college newspaper, The Kaimin (meaning "message" in Salish Indian). In 1917, he solemnly refused to sign a, student resolution endorsing Woodrow Wilson's war effort-at least not until Wilson had made it clear how he was going to conduct the war. The label "pacifist" was pinned on him. But he was one of the first on the campus to volunteer, and he went to France with the 18th Engineers Railway Regiment...
...Have the Courage." After the war Fuchs began to lose some of his faith in Stalin and Russia, eventually decided it would be wisest to get away from Harwell. His father, a 75-year-old ex-Protestant minister, and pacifist, furnished a convenient pretext: he was making plans to move from his home in West Germany to the Russian zone, where he had been offered a professorship at Leipzig University. Fuchs reported his father's Red taint to the authorities at Harwell. It is not clear why he did so. He may have hoped that he would be quietly...
...Harwell were horrified and demoralized. In Washington a young general threw up his hands. "It's depressing," he said. "It makes you so suspicious you don't know whether to trust your own staff members." From Frankfurt came word of Klaus Fuchs's father. The old pacifist, now 75, had left two weeks ago to become professor of theology at the University of Leipzig in the Russian zone of Germany...