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...proposed in 1910 that all youths be conscripted as an "army enlisted against nature . . . to get the childishness knocked out of them and to come back into society with healthier sympathies and soberer ideas." First work camp was organized in northern France in 1920 by Pierre Ceresole, a Swiss pacifist. By 1931 Republican Germany had 280,000 youths enrolled in Government-subsidized work camps; Adolf Hitler expanded them into the Nazi labor service...
They had begun to murmur when the State took away their plain little red schoolhouses, gave them public schools. But they did not move away, like their Amish cousins, who went to Maryland. They muttered louder when draft officials sent their pacifist young men to camps for conscientious objectors. But when AAA sent its agents in and told them how much wheat they could grow on their fertile acres, the Mennonites decided they had stood enough. They held a meeting, agreed to emigrate to the free frontier soil of Paraguay...
...leathery, convivial cavalryman whose lanky legs possess one of the notable bows of the armed forces. Popular brigade commander in Fort Knox's Armored Force, he made his name with newsmen as head of Army's press section from 1935 to 1939. Then a lieutenant colonel, with pacifist critics his chief problem, newsmen rated him the ablest question-answerer ever to hold down...
...democratic system, declared that the evil forces in charge of the dictatorships exist "only as a subjective state of erroneous thought, and therefore possess neither power, permanence, nor reality"; 3) Nazis have always denounced Mary Baker Eddy's philosophy as an un-German "liberalistic ideology with a strong pacifist concomitant...
...Tokyo, Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew made the week's clearest statement of the U.S. attitude toward peace. In a letter to pacifist U.S. church workers in Japan, he said: "I believe circumstances may arise when it may become necessary for us to get into the fighting in the interests not only of our own future safety . . . but precisely in order to insure the just peace and equitable world order which are among your fundamental desires. . . . The German Empire as now constituted is not satisfied with a just peace and equitable order. . . . One cannot temporize with cancer...