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Episcopalian Franklin Delano Roosevelt last week issued an executive order authorizing Selective Service Director Clarence Addison Dykstra (Dutch Reformed) to initiate a program of non-military work of "national importance" for conscientious objectors. But the most practical of all pacifist sects had beat him to the plowshare. Four days previously the American Friends Service Committee had already opened its second work camp for C. O.s in Patapsco State Forest near Baltimore. Soon the Quakers, the Mennonites and the Church of the Brethren will have ten camps set up for the 6,700 C. O.s so far turned...
Significantly, the editorial chairman who penned these words was himself listed as an ardent pacifist in the '20s. He is Union Seminary's famed theologian, highbrowed, sharp-eyed Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, and behind him are a group of potent church sponsors disturbed by a belief that every existing interdenominational paper is strongly pacifist in tone and no longer reflects the sentiment of most ministers...
When World War II broke out in Sept. 1939, U. S. clergymen were overwhelmingly pacifist, determined never again to incur such bitter mockery as their World...
Methodist. Bishop G. (for Garfield) Bromley Oxnam, secretary of the Council of Bishops: "Last spring the Methodist General Conference took the stand that 'the Methodist Church will not officially support, endorse or participate in war.' This is a more strongly pacifist attitude than would be taken by the majority of ministers today. . . . Large numbers [now] believe the future of Christianity itself is related to the defeat of this new religion of totalitarian force...
...Norman Angell, Nobel prize winner, widely-known pacifist, and close student of a war he terms a "world-wide revolution," will speak at Ford Hall Forum Sunday evening, on the topic "What Should a Pacifist...