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...washed them west from the Ukrainian lands where Catherine the Great had given their fathers refuge two centuries ago. In World War II many of their men had been forced, in spite of the Mennonites' pacifist principles, to fight for the Germans in the retreat from Russia. After victory Russia, which considered the Ukrainian Mennonites as Russian nationals, long refused them permission to leave Germany. Amazingly, as if in answer to a prayer, permission came. Last week, 2,312 of them reached Buenos Aires aboard a Dutch ship chartered by the Mennonite Central Committee (TIME...
...themselves, have not escaped the disease of sectarianism and schism. U.S. Mennonites are currently divided into 16 groups, including the black-clothed, buttonless, bearded Amish of southeastern Pennsylvania. Some of them still practice such ancient customs as the "holy kiss" (see cut). All of them, however, remain plain and pacifist...
Originally an interventionist wing of the pacifist Harvard Union, former College liberal group, the insurgent H.L.U. broke away from the larger organization in 1941 during a disagreement over American entry into...
After Pioneer Rainsford's retirement, the church's liberal, socially conscious tradition was carried on under high-church-baiting Dr. Karl Reiland,* since 1936 under solemn pacifist Dr. Elmore McKee. Last June, after ten years' service, 50-year-old Dr. McKee resigned because of "fatigue." Next month, a new rector will take over: tall (6 ft. 3 in.), bespectacled Edward Miller, 31. Born in St. Louis, he was graduated from Harvard (where he was fencing captain), studied for a year at Cambridge, then at New York's General Theological Seminary before taking his present...
...wrote the emotional, pacifist World Peaceways ads (without pay) which appeared in U.S. magazines during the 1930s. (Most striking: a steel-helmeted skeleton, captioned "Cornfed Kid from the West...