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...easy to understand the attitude of the man who wants us to join up with the Allies or that of the extreme pacifist," Holmes said, but "what I cannot understand is what seems to be our policy of staying out of the war in our own interest, and at the same time providing--and at a good profit!--the arms and ammunition for others to carry...
...offered yesterday morning in the Chapel by the Rev. Dr. John Haynes Holmes. Most of the traditional views, in his hands, went by the board. The attitude that it is a black and white war, he can understand; but he had no patience with it. It is unrealistic. The pacifist view that war is abominable in and of itself, he also can understand; and with this he has more sympathy. The attitude of peace-at-any-price for America, he can neither understand nor tolerate. His conclusion: peace...
Despite Mr. Villard's reputation as a liberal, pacifist and anti-Nazi, German officials received him with courtesy, allowed him to go anywhere he wished, placed "cars and guides at my disposal with their compliments" and permitted him to send cables from Berlin "in which I was as critical and as free in my expression as I would have been in New York...
These Christians objected to the isolationist-pacifist line taken by the Christian Century (and by most of the Roman Catholic press*): "That, since all war is unChristian, Christians in neutral nations should not discriminate between belligerents . . . that Christian citizens of nations at war are disloyal to their Christian faith if they give support to their Governments or armies." This view, said the signers, "seems to us to be due to intellectual confusion and to tend toward moral callousness and national self-righteousness and irresponsibility." In full agreement with most Allied churchmen, the 31 affirmed...
...America there is need for a truly liberal student organization, sincerely devoted to the preservation of a constructively pacifist point of view in foreign affairs and a progressive, socially-conscious one in domestic politics. Such an organization the ASU has never sincerely been under Stalinist and Socialist leadership. Since 1935, when the national body was founded, a series of high-sounding declarations of principle have gained for it liberal support and camouflaged what now appears so clear: that radicals have been in the driver's seat...