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Terboven purred with pleasure and circulated the slogan: "Let us follow our leaders, Quisling, Hamsun,* and Berggrav." The people of Norway muttered "pacifist" at mention of their Bishop's name. But Berggrav held fast. Adolf Hitler had promised Norway religious freedom and a legally constituted government. In the interests of peace and order, the Bishop proposed to do his part...
Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, Brit ain's bubbling, goat-bearded ex-pacifist philosopher and mainstay of the BBC "Brains Trust" (British equivalent of In formation Please), was invited to speak at Cambridge University on international affairs, was greeted with tear and smoke bombs by student rioters who aimed to prevent him from speaking. Reason: in 1933, Joad had spoken at Cambridge in defense of the Oxford Union's once-famed resolution-"Not to Fight for King and Country...
Wendell Willkie, Hanson W. Baldwin, William C. Bullitt and others who have been slapped down by the Russian press were joined by unexpected company last week. Soundly slapped down by Izvestia were British ex-Pacifist philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad (The Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of the Better World) and Harold Laski, British leftist economist, friend of Russia and sometime White House guest. Said Izvestia: "Meddling advisers." Their offense: signing a British National Peace Council petition urging a "strategy of mercy" toward Germany...
...always stopped and listened when he spoke. He was not an impressive figure of a statesman: his baggy, old-fashioned suit was topped by a limp string of bow tie; his droopy eyelids, under bushy brows, made him look perpetually tired. But people always looked at him. An avowed pacifist, he was one of the "little group of willful men" who blocked Woodrow Wilson's 1917 plan to arm the merchant marine, and he also voted against World War I. But he left isolationism back...
...Hour before the Dawn (Paramount) is a picturization of W. Somerset Maugham's novel of that name. Its thesis: there's nothing wrong with a pacifist that committing murder won't cure. As a boy, Franchot Tone suffered a psychic shock when he shot his dog; after that he was a sourpuss at hunt breakfasts. "Now, if it was the birds that had the rifles," he would mutter...