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...Thus we are initiated into all the "secrets" of air defense which the Government deems wise to publicize, and we are even allowed to share the crammed quarters of a bomber with the handsome young fellows who fight for "liberty, truth, and beauty." Doubtless, even the most die-hard pacifist will get a vicarious thrill out of dog-fights in the air and a spectacular bombardment of German battleships at Kiel. "The Lion Has Wings" interests only insofar as it is a carefully elaborated was document; it offers little in the way of a plot. Ralph Richardson in uniform...
...what His Majesty's Government are doing about Britain's conscientious objectors. Out of 300,000 young men of conscription age, 4,338 "conchies" had registered. Once registered, each objector had to appear before a local tribunal. In many cases the "conchies" were coached in advance by pacifist bodies-the Peace Pledge Union, the Fellowship of Reconciliation-whose representatives sat in the courtrooms. Fifteen per cent were given unconditional exemption from military service; 45% were allowed to undertake civil work or training; 23% were put down for noncombatant military service; 17% were rejected...
England's treatment of her "conchies" is in strong contrast with France's. Many a French pacifist is now in jail, including Henri Roser, secretary of the French Fellowship of Reconciliation. Lecturing on peace in the U. S. last week, Muriel Lester, dynamic British pacifist, friend of Mahatma Gandhi, declared: "One can be proud of Britain's civil liberty." Example: the Government recently permitted Canon Charles Earle Raven to broadcast on absolute Christian pacifism...
...audience of Oxford undergraduates, in a dim lecture hall which, not long before, had resounded with pacifist slogans, Britain's Foreign Secretary expounded last week the novel doctrine that this war is one "between youth and youth." Assuming the role of Pontius Pilate for his generation, Lord Halifax squarely lays the responsibility for the Second World War at the door of German youth, whom he condemns in one and the same breath as "materialistic" and "prepared to sacrifice their lives without a moment's hesitation." A jumble of mysticisms and paradoxes, His Lordship's speech is termed...
...paramount importance of keeping our country out of war, the undersigned organizations feel called upon to unite in urging students to join this pilgrimage, in accordance with the particular concern of all three organizations with the maintenance of peace for America. Harvard Student Union American Independence League Harvard Pacifist Association...