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Chesterton advocated communal ownership of large-scale industry and decentralized agriculture. But as a revolutionary he was very much of an Englishman. The threat of World War I forced him to choose armaments produced by capitalists rather than socialist-pacifist unpreparedness...
Logan was an 18th Century gentleman farmer, an author of pamphlets on crops and soil, and a Quaker pacifist. He lived on a 500-acre estate near Germantown, Pa., dabbled in medicine, and habitually wore homespun clothes to encourage domestic manufacture. In 1798, Logan saw the U.S., attacked and insulted, preparing for war. French warships had seized U.S. vessels. The French foreign minister, Talleyrand, had cynically tried to exact what amounted to a tribute from the infant country. Nevertheless, Quaker Logan viewed U.S. intentions with consternation, and as a self-appointed peacemaker sailed for France...
...teetotaler and a pacifist. During World War I he chartered the Oscar II and sailed for Europe, determined to confront the leaders of Europe and argue them out of their senseless conflicts. He came home sickened by ridicule and disillusion...
From his new, vast Willow Run plant, after several false starts, the bombers rolled out. Thousands of other U.S. plants poured out the tools of war, mass-produced by the techniques of the old pacifist, Ford...
Despite its birth in the turbulent middle Thirties and its almost doctrinaire argument, the play has a great deal to say to an audience of today. There are scenes and situations which have been withered in significance by time and circumstance: the pathetic Pacifist argument which is brought in more than once, for example, is musty. But the cry for economic equalitarianism rings truer today, if possible, than in 1935, and the repeated warnings against Communist-hunting as an indoor sport have a chillingly up-to-date sound about them...