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...what might be called Capitalism at home and Pacifism abroad. Amazingly enough, the "Ginger Group" of the fighting services is firmly convinced that Japan's actions in respect to China have been thus far so much more peaceful than they might have been as to be shockingly Pacifist...
Last week National Peace Conference, an organization of some 30 peace societies, sent President Roosevelt a protest, signed by 450 churchmen, educators and businessmen, against "unprecedented" U. S. military expenditures. Also last week, by an amoeba-like proliferation which pacifist and religious movements often undergo, part of the personnel of the National Peace Conference made ready to launch an ambitious two-year Emergency Peace Campaign. In its first year the campaign plans to spend between $500,000 and $1,000,000, of which it has raised $150,000. Acting as treasurer of the campaign is the American Friends Service Committee...
When a Commission on the Coordination of Efforts for Peace was founded two years ago. with President Ernest Hatch Wilkins of Oberlin College at its head, it bogged at the start in attempting to list all the U. S. anti-war organizations. In Manhattan alone there are some 200 pacifist groups including the Peace Patriots, the New York Committee for the Struggle against War, the Penny Fund for Peace ("40,000,000 Pennies from 40,000,000 Women & Children"). But the 30-odd U. S. peace organizations which amount to anything belong to the National Peace Conference. When not engaged...
Most businesslike of U. S. peace groups is World Peaceways, whose guiding spirit is a dynamic, blue-eyed, brown-haired grandmother named Mrs. Estelle Miller Sternberger. In Manhattan last week Mrs. Sternberger received the Jewish Forum's Albert Einstein Peace Award for her pacifist achievements over two decades. Operating on an annual $100,000 budget. World Peaceways puts its faith in free advertising. In FORTUNE two years ago appeared the first of a series of World Peaceways full-page ads, written by Bruce Barton. Now prepared by Young & Rubicam, the campaign has reached the point, projected several years...
...discussion group of the Maryland Youth Council, representing all Protestant denominations, urged churches to discourage: 1) membership in the R. O. T. C.; 2) church memorials to War Veterans; 3) display of the U. S. flag. The group declared that "the active pacifist is the 100% Christian patriot...