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Russell is also an ardent social philosopher. He has never advocated radical reform, however, because he was afraid such reform might be accompanied by totalitarianism. The philosopher was deprived of his fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, during the first world war, and put in jail because of his pacifist views and statements...
Bitterness & the Boy Scouts. By the end of World War II, Syngman Rhee had little left of the pacifist idealism which had motivated him in 1919, had acquired a bitter and intimate understanding of the Korean proverb "When whales fight, the shrimp are eaten." Bypassing the Secretary of State, he persuaded the War Department to return him to liberated Korea simply "as a private person." General John Hodge, who commanded U.S. occupation forces, saw in Rhee a possible rallying point, a focus which might bring order out of South Korea's chaos. When Hodge led Rhee onto a platform...
Middle age had transformed many of the party's principles as well as its appearance. Keir Hardie, for example, had been an uncompromising pacifist. His cause was carried on at Margate by Hardie's son-in-law Emrys Hughes, who bitterly cried: "They have made a hell upon earth in Korea and they call it collective security." Other speakers acknowledged the old pacifist tradition, but the party's new attitude to war was clearly stated by Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin. Fresh from the New York Foreign Ministers' conference, Bevin urged collective security and alignment with...
...with an arrangement to send Le Devoir some travelogue pieces from faraway places. He reached Japan soon after the Korean fighting began, managed to get himself accredited as a war correspondent, and launched gaily into political punditry. Hebert is a Catholic and an antiCommunist; apparently his French Canadian isolationist-pacifist sentiments led him into echoing the Communist appeasement line on Korea almost as faithfully as though he were writing for Pravda...
...political fuzziness is Editor Basil Kingsley Martin, who writes most of the lead editorials and a gossipy column about cabbages & kings signed "Critic." With his querulous aquiline profile and his tonsure-like ring of hair, 53-year-old Kingsley Martin well fits his role as omniscient dissenter and belligerent pacifist. His sense of martyrdom is irritating and sincere, once prompted the remark: "If you see someone who looks as if he is on his way to Clarkson's [a theatrical wigmaker] to hire a crown of thorns-that's Kingsley Martin." Martin registered as a conscientious objector...