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...this, "we aren't succeeding in getting the country keyed up to a violent state of militarism, because there are enough sensible people who would rather spend their taxes on schools, and other internal improvements than on supporting a very modern army". If this be pacifism, I am a pacifist. It appeals to me as a common-sense and non-fanatical point of view. James H. Lakeman...
...business. He attended Columbia University, whence he graduated to literary and radical circles in Greenwich Village. Deeply influenced by Max Eastman and Floyd Dell. Freeman was a Socialist during the War, supported the action of Columbia's Historian Charles Beard, who resigned in protest against the expulsion of pacifist professors. Working as a foreign correspondent in Paris and London after the War, Freeman covered the crash of the ZR-2, worked under Floyd Gibbons, conducted a long international correspondence on political and literary matters with his old schoolmates, many of whose letters he includes in his autobiography, saw enough...
...night patrol above the city and could see the bombs strike with out being able to locate the Gothas that were dropping them. That made him realize that future wars would mean air at tacks on cities, since "some bombers will always get through." It made him a pacifist as well, convinced that new wars are inevitable, with no solution for them except through some vaguely-conceived World State...
...book, Author Bruce Winton Knight, professor of economics at Dartmouth, gravely announces his argument: "Thus far in human history no formula has proved equal to the task of preventing more or less extended periods of peace." Purporting to solve that problem, How to Run a War is an ingenious pacifist tour de force, addressed to wealthy and politically powerful U. S. citizens who are "primarily responsible for American policies and opinions." As such, the book is filled with material that is likely to frighten good pacifists out of their wits...
...pacifist and philosopher in his declining years, he last month delivered his own valedictory in what was his final public appearance, his investiture as Edinburgh University's Lord Rector. Before Scotland's rowdiest undergraduates, who interrupted his speech by pelting him with paper bags filled with flour, with colored streamers, beans and peppermints, he imperturbably declared: "Unless the people of Europe discard this narrow nationalism that is miscalled patriotism there will be a return to the Dark Ages. The lust for expansion is not quite dead, but the glory of conquest is departing. Its gains are Dead...