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...Society. I doubt if a single eminent early Quaker can be named who consistently condemned all war. Penn, [John] Bright and [Herbert] Hoover are the only three Quakers who have ever held positions of first-rate public responsibility, and none of them found it possible to retain the pacifist dogma...
...Quakers have no formal creed; in its place they have put one great central doctrine, the doctrine of the Inner Light. What the Light reveals is left to the individual conscience; it is not imposed on us from outside. If this is correct, the attempt to prescribe the pacifist dogma is clearly inconsistent with that tolerance which the great doctrine implies...
...Republican primary the choice lies between a 57-year-old bachelor, Wellington D. Rankin (brother of pacifist Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin) and Jew-baiting, Fascist-minded ex-Congressman Jacob Thorkelson. Ignored by Montana's larger city newspapers, Jakie Thorkelson has conducted a busy rural campaign. His "issue": international bankers. All signs pointed to Rankin's nomination...
...Gave full play to individual opinion in a war statement that let 409 delegates "support the present war effort of our country at whatever sacrifice of life and treasure," 135 delegates remain "convinced of the futility of war," 35 other delegates take neither a pacifist nor an interventionist stand...
...Pacifist Jeannette Rankin of Montana, first woman elected to Congress, has served two terms in the House. In both terms she has had to face a vote on the terrible issue of war. The first time, in 1917, she spoke a tearful "no." Next year, when she sought Montana's senatorship, she was roundly defeated. Last December, 61, grey-haired and gaunt, she stood alone in the House against war with Japan, voted merely a nervous "present" on the declaration of war against Germany and Italy. Montana raged with shame. When the primary filing time closed in Montana last...