Word: pacifists
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...lapsed Catholic, half-baked grammar school intellectual, the new technical school boys whose knowing twang you hear on every bus, every manic-depressive Orwellite, fissurated Koestlerite, prehistoric Fabian, antique Keir Hardyite, flaming anti-Roman Catholic, like . . . the editor himself, Mr. Kingsley Martin, and every other unhappy misfit, pink and pacifist, whose sole prophylactic against despair, if not suicide, is a weekly injection of Kingsley Martin's Bottled Bellyache...
...innovator. Monetary catastrophes are as old as-money. Famine is but an old curse revived. Hitler's and Stalin's labor camps have done no more than renew the worst forms of ancient slavery. Atheism and superstition nourished in Rome of the decadence. The pacifist illusion wrought havoc in Hellas. State control and socialism were known in Egypt under the Pharaohs, in Peru under the Incas. The dictatorships of the 20th Century take the mind back to the Greek tyrannies, which were built on popular support...
...Conservatives hoped to split the Labor majority at a vulnerable point: where the government's pacifist wing flutters in protest against the government's strong rearmament program. But Churchill did not touch the vital issue. His resolution was not against rearmament, but for a more efficient rearmament. As he spoke for his motion, the Tory leader plainly showed the weakness of his argument. He taunted the Laborites for a gingerly approach, lamely charged that Prime Minister Clement Attlee had failed to produce atomic bombs in Britain...
...Labor pacifist felt his conscience troubled in voting against the Conservative motion of censure. In his fourth attempt this year to bring down the government, Churchill suffered his sharpest rebuff. The Laborites won the vote...
...Labor Party split was symbolized by the fact that Harold Lawrence, running for the House of Commons in a by-election at Bristol, is an all-out, no-arms, no-armor pacifist and the official candidate of the Labor Party, which is committed to rearmament. Attlee refused to send Lawrence the usual letter of endorsement, but his approval by the party executive committee was not revoked...