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...recent draft will be met by statements of conscientious objection from the twelve members of the Harvard Pacifist Society, Linmey J. Burton '42, president of the society stated yesterday. The members oppose military service on religious, moral or political grounds, Burton said...
...article on the draft registration you stated that no one of 1300 registrants indicated his status as a conscientious objector, thus showing the high war morale. The country is at war, and so far as I can see, the morale is fairly high, but the legal time for the pacifist to register his objections to war occurs when he receives his questionnaire, at which time he may request and fill out the special form number forty-seven...
...write that I am a conscientious objector on my draft registration card, when I registered in Memorial Hall on Sunday. However, my registrar was so firmly against it that I acquiesced, since the procedure is not legally proper. There are at least fourteen other active members of the Harvard Pacifist Association who will state their objection to war when they receive their questionnaires. Marvin J. Shapivo '42. Dunster...
...brought out from beneath their bushels. Of course they do more properly belong to an era of bright peace, like the middle thirties when only Ethiopia and China were invaded. But even today they might be very lightly suggested, without sounding too much like the rantings of a pacifist from the Left. If the information sifting through from Washington is to be believed, the discussion of the evils of war profiteering might have stopped but the profits have not. It is interesting to notice the quiet reception the newspapers gave the declaration of General Motors' president. Newspapers are full...
...Harry Emerson Fosdick remains America's No. 1 pacifist-but last Sunday he told his congregation in Manhattan's Riverside (Rockefeller) Church that Fascism and Christianity cannot survive permanently in the same world...