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...mayor of Columbus, Ohio. Ameringer's Guardian had some 40,000 readers who agreed that modern civilization is "a bunch of naked blind men trying to pick each other's pockets with pitchforks." When Ameringer picked up his pitchfork against the Axis in post-Pearl Harbor days, pacifist subscribers canceled the paper out of existence. Said Ameringer: "Running a labor paper is like feeding melted butter on the end of a hot awl to an infuriated wildcat...
...policy. Everyone has." But he favored Lend-Lease, military preparedness, decided before Pearl Harbor that the U.S. would have to go to war. His ambiguous record as a Presidential candidate in 1940 was dictated by 1) his emotional distaste for war ("I suppose at heart I am really a pacifist") and 2) political caution...
Romain Rolland, 77-year-old Nobel Prizewinning novelist (Jean-Christophe)* long unheard from, was reported in a German concentration camp. A longtime pacifist, he had returned to France and supported the war after nearly 25 above-the-battle years in Switzerland...
...fighting World War II with much less hysteria, many fewer violations of civil rights than during World War I, concluded the unsparing American Civil Liberties Union in a report on the twelve months ending June 1. The Union's explanation: 1) there is no organized, powerful radical and pacifist opposition to the war; 2) the Administration is self-consciously liberal; 3) opposition to the New Deal acts within the conventional democratic framework; 4) the public interest is concentrated on postwar plans; 5) the Supreme Court has buttressed the Bill of Rights...
...pacifist mid-'30s the Veterans of Future Wars was the most biting, satiric anti-war crusade of them all. These were the confident college youths who knew their elders had botched the last war and the peace; they would not fall for the hollow gag of trying to make the world safe for democracy. With tongue in cheek, they demanded their prepaid bonus immediately, for a war into which they would not drag the U.S. The Chicago University chapter offered the slogan: "We'll make the world safe for hypocrisy." In a parade up Broadway, V.F.W.s carried death...