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Amid the plethora of defense organizations that now are flooding the college, a small earnest group of pacifists still continue to practice the doctrines of conciliation and peace. Claiming over fifty active members, the Harvard Pacifist League hold weekly discusses of pacifist technique, teaches English to German refugees, and carries on work projects throughout Cambridge...
...himself is opposed to war on religious grounds. He must of course convince the proper authorities of the sincerity of his belief in order to be assigned to nonmilitary service. The present law is wider than the War Draft Act, which expressly required membership in a pacifist sect...
...Rights Committee if he is not sure just how and when to make his convictions known. Naturally the main factor in the situation is just what a man's conscience will or will not allow him to do, and on that score, no one can expect outside help. Several pacifist sects set up organizations for relief and reconstruction work in wartime, and then try their best to get them rated as legitimate noncombatant groups under the Selective Service Act. Nearly all these sects feel that the regular noncombatant work under Army direction is so close to actual participation...
...conception of freedom and democracy. Union of all Polish organizations in the United States with these ideals in mind is being undertaken by the Polish National Council of America. In its editorial columns this paper fully supports selective service and accuses all those opposed to conscription, as well as pacifist organizations, of being fifth columnists...
...thought all through the last war I was a pacifist," the white-haired philosopher stated at the Faculty Club. "Now I am not. Forces which threaten mankind are assailing England today...