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...motions; it is, after all, a debating club. Third, the oratory of Mr. Randolph Churchill, in marked contrast to that of his distinguished father, has always been a sure vote-loser amongst Oxford audiences. Neglect of these considerations caused widespread American misunderstanding of the 1933 "King and Country" [pacifist] motion. It would be a thousand pities if a similar misunderstanding flowed from this...
Cigar-puffing President Aubrey L. Ashby of tiny Olivet College, Mich., likes to call his administration "a period of sanitation." Called in two years ago to put Olivet back on its financial feet, he determined to rid the campus of its reputation for leftist-pacifist leanings (TIME, Jan. 24, 1949). In doing so, he raised a bigger academic rumpus than most presidents could raise in a lifetime...
Last week ex-Pacifist Joad and Randolph Churchill squared off over another provocative union resolution: "That this House regrets the influence exercised by the U.S. as the dominant power among the democratic nations...
Ninety-one-year-old Yukio Ozaki's stubbornness and his disagreement with his countrymen have not been confined to the cherry tree incident. All his life Ozaki has been a democrat, pacifist and internationalist in a land primarily dominated by soldiers and all-out nationalists. Paradoxically, Ozaki's heresies have won him wide respect and an unparalleled political career. Mayor of Tokyo for nine years and twice a cabinet minister, he was elected to the first Japanese Diet in 1890 and has been a member of every one since. Says his daughter, "Voting for father is a habit...
...Quakerism to many non-Quakers, hardworking, articulate Secretary Pickett has come to personify the Service Committee. Farm-raised and Quaker-educated (William Penn College, Oskaloosa, Iowa), Pickett spent World War I leading Friends' meetings, defending conscientious objectors and getting the side of his house painted yellow for his pacifist pains. In 1923 he joined the faculty of Earlham College at Richmond, Ind., where his favorite course was a study of the application of religion and ethics to current social problems...