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...Tribal God. But when Dr. Tittle's Committee on State of the Church tried to have this pacifist declaration reaffirmed last week, 17 of the 74 committee members balked. Led by a layman and World War I veteran, Lawyer Charles C. Parlin, of Englewood, N.J., the dissidents drew up a minority report, placing the Church squarely behind the war, took their report to the Conference floor for a showdown...
...issue was too grave to vote on by a show of hands. Result of the secret ballot: 300 for the pacifist stand, 373 against. Laymen voted almost 2-to-1 against pacifism, but the clergy repudiated it by only one vote...
Many a layman was jubilant that the pacifist grip on the Church had been broken. But the score of Army and Navy chaplains present were not so happy. Said one: "The Church has lowered her flag." Said another: "When this bloody business is over, there is going to be a wave of revulsion against war, and Methodist men are not going to be proud that their Church had any part...
Doukhobors began boycotting war in Czarist Russia a century ago, eventually had to leave. Most of the Dominion's 17,000 industrious, abstemious "Douks" have accepted pacifist alternatives to national service; only the obstreperous sect-within-a-sect called Sons of Freedom balked. In court, the Czar of Heaven disdained to take the oath, said that he would sooner kiss the magistrate than kiss the Bible. Disrobers got two years in the penitentiary; the Czar, a $5 fine...
...scholarly Diplomat Benes found for the western democracies the tough descriptive term "decadence." A few weeks later, Hitler slept in the castle of Prague. When post-Munich Czechoslovakia was carved to pieces, Soviet Russia recognized "independent" Slovakia. But at that moment, the "decadent" democracies began to wake up from pacifist follies and appeasement nightmares. Their encouragement put life into the Czechoslovak Government in Exile...