Word: pacifists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Catastrophe. Klaus Fuchs (rhymes with books) was born 38 years ago in Russelsheim, Germany. His father, Emil Fuchs, was first a Protestant minister, became a Quaker in 1925. He was a lifelong member of the Socialist Party and a pacifist. During the 1930s the Nazis persecuted the whole family because of the father's Socialism and pacifism. Emil Fuchs spent nine months in a concentration camp. One of Klaus's sisters, a painter, became an active anti-Nazi political worker, helped her husband to escape from Germany, jumped to her death beneath a Berlin subway train after persecution...
...Rajendra Prasad, who, like Gandhi, gave up a law practice to devote his life to Indian freedom, the presidency was a reward for years of faithful service to the Congress party. One friend said of pacifist, Puritan Prasad: "He detests controversy as much as he loathes liquor." Prasad is a strong upholder of tradition; he still opposes tractors' and factories for India...