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...clear idea of what they should do, although most think they know what should be done. What new techniques for activism can be used to meet this new situation? What are the implications of the necessarily unsubtle techniques now used? One can feel great sympathy, for example, with the pacifist who pickets missle bases until he realizes that this sort of action bears no direct relation to the situation (a technician here is by no means a scab if he crosses the picket line) and that the symbolism behind this movement, if carried to its extreme, augurs extreme danger...
Obviously, SANE is more likely than the pacifist groups to change society's attitude toward disarmament. It doesn't yet seem to know how. Even "commitment"--the most recurrent word in the lexicon of those who speak on the problem--becomes irrelevant when one realizes what it has meant in the past. For commitment to labor or to anti-fascism meant, in most cases, little reflection and a great deal of action...
Resnais has not allowed the dominant pacifist theme to obscure the nature of the characters themselves, and he builds the character of the girl with especial care, using a series of deft, slightly uncanny flashbacks. Both of the actors, Emmanuele Riva and Eiji Okada, perform excellently--she with an old woman's weariness--he with a solid diffidence which is never completely penetrated. Both as piece of cinematic fiction and as a document of the war, Hiroshima Mon Amour has outstanding merit. Every-one should see it at least once--more often if at all possible...
...took her seat four years before the 19th Amendment was passed. Crowed an elated suffragette: "Jeanette is the best stump speaker in Montana, can dance like a boarding-school girl, and, believe me, she will lead those Congressmen a merry little two-step when she comes to Washington!" But Pacifist Rankin's unique distinction in Congress is the fact that, in her two widely separated terms, she was the only member of Congress to vote against U.S. entry into both World Wars (in World War II, hers was the only...
Cooking Up Words. Because she was a pacifist, Henrietta Szold herself at first could not get into British-mandated Palestine. She at last persuaded Viscount Samuel, the newly named High Commissioner, to use his influence. Once in, she stayed there most of her remaining 25 years, and proved herself an organization dynamo. In the years from 1922 through 1931, Hadassah's volunteer medical services spent more money ($445,000 to $655,000 a year) than the mandate government's Health Department. They opened scores of hospitals, clinics and mother-and-child welfare stations...