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...Commons, Winston Churchill also found it necessary to point out that in Korea the U.S. is providing nine-tenths of the blood, sweat & tears. ". . . There is a great volume of opinion in this country that we should complete a withdrawal from Korea," cried Bevanite M.P. Emrys Hughes, a bellicose pacifist, "because the war there [is] one of the most cruel and futile in history." Since the Americans had made a mess of the P.W. situation and the Syngman Rhee affair, some Britons implied, they probably have balled up the truce negotiations just as badly...
...three acres. Family circumstances: poor and puritanical. Ike once had to wear his mother's high-button shoes to school. Father David, who eked out a living as a mechanic in a Brethren-operated creamery, gave much attention to Bible reading. Mother Ida, a strong personality and lifelong pacifist who eventually joined Jehovah's Witnesses, held the household together. There were seven children, all sons, of whom four besides the general are still alive-Arthur B., 65, a Kansas City banker; Edgar N., 63, a Tacoma (Wash.) attorney; Earl D., 54, a Charleroi (Pa.) engineer; Milton, 52, president...
...assured a friend, "I might as well do it with a certain amount of chic." Instead of going mad. he took the more dangerous course of hunting up a new cause, which he found in the "underdog" condition of the British proletariat. "In the old pacifist days I wanted to blow up the War Office . . . Under the ... Oxford Group I wanted to drag people to church by the scruff of their necks, and now ... I felt like marching through Claridge's with a banner proclaiming the doom of the rich...
Speaking for the Peace Council, Louis F. Sharpe '54, a member of the executive board, said the two groups are "ultimately working for the same ends, but the Peace Council does not believe in a pacifist philosophy...
...S.N.V.A. split off from the Peace Council last week when the Council would not commit themselves to a policy of pacifism. "The S.N.V.A. would exclude a true liberal and peace-lover if he is not a pacifist," Sharpe said. "Our group is interested in the reduction of armaments throughout all world powers, not in any one nation," he said...