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Secondly, the articles mainly concern pacifist organizations operating in the early forties when pacifism did not automatically suggest communism, as it does today. Readers of the Philbrick series, most of whom have already blurred the distinction between pacifism and sedition, can hardly be expected to remember that the distinction existed in even clearer terms during the early forties. Those who were members of these groups may not have wished to overthrow the government then; they may not wish to overthrow it now, and they may not even be pacifists now. Despite all these possibilities, they will be associated with sedition...
Both professors called for a movement away from the primarily military approach which this country is taking towards a policy of pacifist non-violence. "At the present moment in human history when we have man the killer at large, the paramount need of man is the decrease of militarism," said Sorokin...
Philbrick, an undercover agent in this area for nine years, asserted in the third of a series of articles he is writing for the New York Herald-Tribune that the group's "pacifist" policy was determined by the party...
Herbert A. Philbrick, for nine years an undercover agent for the F.B.I., yesterday began an expose of communist infiltration in the Cambridge Youth Council, a "pacifist" organization which in 1940 drew much of its support from Harvard and Radcliffe...
...article, Philbrick explained how he became chairman of the Youth Council which he innocently believed to be a valid "pacifist" organization. Its organizer, said the counterspy, was a girl named Toni Grose who had her offices in the Freshman Union. Its list of prominent sponsors included Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology...