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...trial last week even the German Defense Ministry's scar-jawed observer relaxed his set vigilance and smiled when Roiderer sniffled between sobs, "I am against war. I am a pacifist. I wanted to write articles with the material in my little notebook from the pacifist philosophical viewpoint. I am an idealist. I couldn't sell my articles because American editors are so materialistic. Almost nothing of mine was accepted by anybody and in all I received just $13. I wrote not as an enemy of Germany but as an enemy...
...more than a month, churchmen and pacifist organizations have been rat-tat-tatting the White House with protests against the forthcoming naval maneuvers in the Pacific (TIME, April 8). Out of this fleet operation involving 177 ships, 447 planes and covering 5,000,000 sq. mi. of seaways, pious people feared, might come the incident which would plunge the U. S. into war with Japan. By last week pacifist pressure had grown so great that the Navy Department for the first time in many a year was obliged to say something, do something...
...taste. His most notable bill in Parliament was one on greyhound racing. British intellectuals object to the fact that Buchan scholarship, without falsifying history, can make a great man look like a scamp, a scamp look like an honest fellow. He is friend to many a British pacifist yet he believes in what he calls "the eternal sacrament of war." In his career, he goes slowly and prudently, saves all his violent and romantic impulses for his books. He married a daughter of the rich Grosvenor clan, the Duke of Westminster's second cousin once removed...
...Manhattan the Caravan, youth section of the New History Society which is a pacifist offshoot of the Bahai religion, celebrated its sixth birthday with a ball at which was sung a new song called "No More War." Chorus...
...discovered that she had been seduced by his nephew, the night before he went to be killed in France, he paid her the unwanted compliment of repeating his vow in her favor. But when she had the spirit to receive a suitor who had been in jail for his pacifist opinions. Stoner refused to give him houseroom for more than an hour. But Jocelle went ahead and married him anyhow. Finally she got the old man to admit that he had forgotten what his wife looked like, and he gave in as gracefully as his old bones would allow...