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...pacifist prior to World War I, a paid propagandist for the Empire during it, and the author of the "Victory Ball" which painted the uselessness of it all for the post-war world, Noyes has previously written rhymed rhetoric during his pacific periods and rhymed drivel in his belligerent moods. In World War II the intellectual chameleon has again changed color--the only difference is that this time the drivel doesn't rhyme...
Height of the debate is a furious 39-page chapter in which Clive explains at biographical length just why he no longer proposes to risk his life for the upper classes. His arguments, neither politically rigid nor in any sense pacifist, are extraordinarily hot stuff to serve up in wartime. He does not persist in his desertion; but his change of heart is not so solidly developed as his anger. Hence This Above All, though full of provocative data, is in the long run a disappointment. For Eric Knight merely mutters some phrases about the wisdom of the heart...
...Berlin, Kiki, 4, asked her artist-pacifist father what the word war meant. He told her, as horribly and gruesomely as he could. Said she, hopefully: "And can women play...
Howard C. Benett, Jr., of Latham, N. Y. and Eliot House. Bennett is a Classics concentrator. He is a member of the Advocate and the Harvard Pacifist Association...
Your article on "practical pacifists" (TIME, Feb. 17) ought to be hailed by all of liberal ilk. I have not seen as fair and unbiased a presentation of the pacifist position anywhere in the secular press, and I'm a confirmed addict of the liberal periodicals...