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More than 150 people have signed the pacifist petition to President Eisenhower asking that surplus food be sent to the needy, especially the Communist Chinese, John R. Butcher '57, chairman of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, said last night...
...obsession with death, all the dark and clinical tear and bleeding on the battlefields, in the bull rings, in the lunchroom where The Killers wait, with gloves on, for their victims. Yet somehow, in an atomic age, Hemingway seems much less macabre and violent than he did in the pacifist climate of the '30s. Hemingway still stands out from a pack of introspective and obscure writers with a dazzling simplicity, rarely politicking, never preaching, never using Freudian jargon...
...President has the legal right to send to food," said John R. Butcher '57, chairman of the pacifist group. "We want to get the ball rolling to show him that people will stand behind him if he does...
...pacifists will seek signatures in the House dining halls and at the graduate schools until Monday. Also include in the pacifist program is the shipment of little bags of rice, with a small tag attached explaining the situation, to President Eisenhower...
...There is a glimmer of hope," he admits, "in the success of some of my friends in getting a reversal over the draft boards rulings against their conscientious objector belief." One pacifist friend, Christopher Fried 3G, was able to get special draft status upon a special appeal, after both the local and state boards had turned him down...