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...think TIME did an excellent job on the review of the Pacifist Handbook [TIME July...
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There is one other small point. My pacifism is not as recent as the reference to that point might suggest. I was a pacifist during the last War and for several years thereafter and was forced to resign my pulpit during the War because of that. Then I had a period when I was out of both the church and the pacifist movement, returning to both...
Noncooperation in war is the course recommended to pacifists by the Handbook. As a matter of strategy when conscription begins, the pacifist is advised .to set his affairs in order, provide for his family, get his pastor to accompany him before a draft board where he will state his position. If he appears to be defying the law, he should seek to be tried early in Federal court rather than later by courtmartial. A pacifist might exhaust every means, legal or otherwise, of avoiding war service, and still be forced into the trenches. The Handbook lists a series of noncooperating...
...Berlin's suburb of Dahlem, two years ago last week, the Gestapo (secret police) arrested Rev. Martin Niemoller, onetime U-boat commander, took him to Moabit prison. Pastor Niemoller was no Marxist, no pacifist, no libertarian. He had, indeed, been an early supporter of Naziism, and the .bourgeoisie and old army families who made up his congregation accepted, broadly, a Nazi view of "the Jewish problem." But for Martin Niemoller, Naziism could go just so far. When "German Christians" sought to Nazify the Evangelical Church, when the Reich sought to apply the "Leader Principle" to church government...