Word: pacifists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Pacifist...
According to these societies, the prerequisites necessary to be a pacifist are "intrepidity, contempt for comfort, surrender of private interest, obedience to command." War can be stopped if enough people are determined to pay the cost...
...realize that one short letter cannot explain the pacifist position but, in the name of fair play give us a chance to state our case...
...Harvard the committee is not connected with any existing group but has received active support from individuals in numerous political factions including the Harvard Student Union and the Harvard Pacifist League...
...brilliant soldier, he was sometimes detested by his officers. Kitchener would not speak to him. A fighter by second nature, he was at one time a pacifist by conviction. A Conservative by heredity, he earned the undying hatred of Conservatives for bolting to Lloyd George's Liberals. Twenty years later he bolted from the Liberals. He introduced into Parliament many of Britain's most important social measures. Labor called him "traitor." Reason: as Minister of Munitions in World War I, Churchill told striking munition workers that if they were dissatisfied with conditions on the job, they could...