Word: pacifists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Garcin, the pacifist reporter who ran from war, is excellently portrayed by Earle Edgerton '56. His role requires precise voice control in a dialogue of oscilloscope inflection and mercurial mood. He seems in doubt at times where to stand or what to do with his arms, but he moves deliberately and effectively, and speaks with masterful control...
Died. Otto Abetz, 55, overbearing ambassador (1940-44) from Nazi Germany to the French puppet government at Vichy, onetime professed pacifist and champion of Franco-German solidarity, whose prewar activities in France, e.g., bribing writers and newsmen, helped reduce French preparedness during the gathering storm; by flames in the interior of his Volkswagen after a crash near Dusseldorf, which also killed his wife. Abetz was tried as a war criminal in 1949 and sentenced to 20 years at hard labor. Freed in 1954, he avoided politics, worked as a freelance writer on economics...
...voyage is sponsored by Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons, a committee of pacifist leaders who feel that pacifism is not a negative refusal to fight; but on the contrary, the most positive approach to world problems. They advocate a constructive program for peace, which would transfer the effort, resources and intelligence now used in preparations for war to a plan for non-violent national defense. Fully aware of the need to resist the growth of communism, they yet look on war as only strengthening totalitarianism everywhere, and deny the assumption that "the massive engine of modern...
...Coast Guard cutter stopped the 30-foot sailing boat about 1 1/2 miles off shore half an hour after its pacifist crew cast off despite a federal order forbidding it to leave...
...most extraordinary scenes the twentieth century can afford for future generations will be the sight of Bertrand Russell in his cell in Brixton Prison, serenely composing his technical Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy while serving the sentence imposed by the British government for the crime of being an active pacifist during World...