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...among them." Director Chaffee lives with his wife and two children on the top floor. A grey-haired, wiry man who much resembles Economist Stuart Chase, he sits on New York's Central Trades and Labor Council as a representative of the city churches, is head of the pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation...
...resolution threatening a general strike should His Majesty's Government declare war. Last week organized British labor was out to kill that resolution. One after another the leaders of the T. U. C. agreed that the world is now menaced by Germany and Japan. They were heckled by pacifist Labor leaders such as Frank Rowlands who shouted, "In 1914 Socialist [Labor] leaders betrayed labor when the War began, but today it seems that the new leaders are betraying us in advance...
...Roared approval as Lord Privy Seal Mr. Stanley Baldwin took over as Acting Premier with a suave but unmistakable Tory intimation that, with Pacifist MacDonald out of the way, His Majesty's Government will at once proceed to build nearly 1,000 additional fighting planes...
Though the words must have all but stuck in the throat of such a life-long pacifist, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald announced last week in his official residence at snug No. 10 Downing Street a new big-navy policy for the British Empire. The announcement was a shining victory for that doughty seadog Admiral Earl Beatty who has clamored for the last four years that "Britain must free herself from the strangle hold of the London Naval Treaty" with the U. S. and Japan...
...sets forth the thesis that only the Protestant churches can effectively prevent war in the event of a critical situation arising. Mr. Hutchinson's analysis of the feeling prevalent throughout the world today is adequate but his assertion that only the Protestant clergy can form a nucleus for a pacifist opposition in the case of a threatened war is shallow since he falls to take into account that large number of youths today who are vehemently opposed to serving as fodder for enemy guns...