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...Statesman's position as a kind of Chamberlain-of-the-left has endeared it to pacifist-minded intellectuals and greying Socialists who loved Russia in their youth, but it raises the hackles of most leaders of the Labor Party. When Prime Minister Clement Attlee was asked what publication he most disliked, he snapped: "The New Statesman...
...literary fashion of the '30s, young (22), fiery Playwright Irwin Shaw wrote Bury the Dead, a moving, pacifist play about some dead soldiers who started an army mutiny by refusing to be buried...
Said Harry Bridges, as he folded his lean frame into the familiar San Francisco witness chair last week: "I'm not a pacifist. I'm against aggression ... I will continue to speak out against war and if I haven't got that right, I may as well go to jail right...
Last week, in Manhattan, where he is lecturing, 58-year-old Pastor Niemöller elaborated his new views. Though he no longer believes that anything can be achieved by violence, he said, he does not want to be considered a pacifist, because pacifism is a principle...
Like the 160 million, the 47 were most concerned about war and the threat of war. After careful word-weighing and the abstention of two members on pacifist grounds, the Committee produced a resolution on the Korean war. "An act of aggression has been committed . . . Armed attack as an instrument of national policy is wrong. We therefore commend the United Nations, an instrument of world order, for its prompt decision to meet this aggression, and for authorizing a police measure which every member nation should support...