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...what a nice, good fool I am." Nice, good "Old George" fought against conditions in British workhouses, fought for women's suffrage, twice went to jail, attempted, as Laborite Commissioner of Works (1929-31), to realize his dream of a happy, beautified London. A single-minded and uncompromising pacifist, Lansbury yielded what crumbs remained to him last autumn when he resigned as the Labor Party's floor leader in the House of Commons rather than go along with his colleagues' approval of Sanctions (TIME...
...George Lansbury in Manhattan last week the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom gave a blue-&-white silk scarf, with an all-over design featuring the letters PAX. Before donning his scarf, and heading westward for peace meetings in 18 cities during the next month, Pacifist Lansbury spoke at a large gathering in Carnegie Hall. Quavered he: 'If all of us old men and old women were put in the front rank, I'm not sure there'd be a war. ... I advocate a slogan, 'Old Uns First...
...Princeton 500 well-behaved demonstrators gathered to hear a pacifist message from Physicist Albert Einstein, a speech by Columnist Dorothy Thompson Lewis who advised: "Go into politics, young men. There's plenty to do in this country, getting it back from the pioneers who nearly ruined...
...Marston Taylor Bogert, 68, first professor of organic chemistry at Columbia University (since 1904), ardent pacifist, tireless lecturer, author of 300 chemical papers of which 64 concern the quinazolines and thiazoles (synthetic aromatics) ; the annual medal of the American Institute of Chemists...
...have not been applied against Italy because Prime Minister Baldwin's Conservative government never really intended to do so. The events at Geneva just preceding the General Election in England, when the Baldwin ministry seemed to be moving toward application of sanctions, was just a gesture to win the pacifist vote, in Laski's opinion...