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...excellent speaker, despite occasional traces of a childhood stammer, Lodge hopes to debate Independent Hughes ("to expose him for what he is-a socialist pacifist"), but is looking forward even more eagerly to getting Teddy on TV. "I just long to have him alone in debate. I would like it to be just the two of us and a moderator. Oh, how I would like that." But Lodge is also a realist. Says he: "I'm the underdog now at no better than 6 to 4." Vows Grindle: "We'll campaign 16 hours a day and pray eight...
...workable" step-by-step disarmament and a "realistic" test-ban agreement-both controlled by an on-site inspection system. It has applauded President Kennedy's disarmament proposals (Cousins called last week's U.S. plan "imaginative, reasonable and responsible"). Says Executive Director Homer Jack: "We are not pacifist, and we are not for unilateral disarmament. We're not fellow travelers and we're not softheaded...
...start it on the road toward a peaceful democratic regime. The vast majority of U.S. theologians regard such views as politically naive at best and irresponsible at worst. Says an old friend and theological colleague, Emil Brunner of Zurich: "If President Kennedy were to adopt Barth's pacifist doctrines, the United States would soon be swallowed by the Soviet Union. A Communist regime would make short shrift of men like Barth...
...reader, told that this is supposed to be a history of the times, is baffled, but finding himself reading about a lonely aristocrat living in a remote Welsh backwater, through an art that is little short of magical, he slowly comes to understand and accept Augustine, with his pacifist, anarchist rationalism, as a type-figure of his English class and generation...
...bulk of conscientious objectors, since he supported England's entry into W.W.II. He never invoked a moral absolute so his change of heart cannot rightly be held inconsistent: in 1915, war seemed more noxious than defeat by the Kaiser. Yet in 1939 he said, "I am still a pacifist in the sense that I think peace the most important thing in the world. But I do not think there can be any peace in the world while Hitler prospers...If we lose it will be hell, probably for a long time to come...