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...Jones's lack of enthusiasm for the War. He doggedly refused to "see how a mere declaration by Congress could alter the principles involved." The Episcopal House of Bishops appointed a Commission to look into Bishop Jones's beliefs, his patriotism, his affiliations with "questionable" Socialist and pacifist organizations. Declaring that War is "not an un-Christian thing," the Commission asked Bishop Jones's resignation, got it. The House of Bishops cautiously declined to accept the Commission's report but did accept the resignation on the basis of Bishop Jones's "impaired usefulness . . . recognized...
...serene Paul Jones, Socialist and pacifist still, no longer seemed dangerous to the Episcopal Church. Minister to students at Antioch College, he was called to be acting bishop of the diocese of Southern Ohio until a new bishop was chosen...
Christmas, 1933, President Roosevelt issued an amnesty restoring civil rights to 1,500 pacifist agitators and draft dodgers jailed during...
When the scraggly-mustached, ascetic General took charge, Japan's tiger was so restive that petty naval officers assassinated Premier Ki Inukai because they considered him a pacifist (TIME, May 23, 1932). Trusting General Araki, the fighting services who despise and hate all Japanese politicians, then settled down to the glorious tiger work of gobbling up Manchukuo and parts of China proper, not forgetting the Japanese naval clawing at Shanghai. Probably the Araki "ride" saved Japanese parliamentary government from being destroyed by a coup...
Your editorial in Wednesday's CRIMSON against the Military and Naval Science departments on the grounds that the college should not have given them a single penny while during the reading period the Widener Library remained closed in the evening was evidently written by a bigoted, prejudiced, so-called "pacifist." He must be the kind of pacifist who knows so much of the ways of nations through his study of History, Government, and Economics that he believes that the way to keep the United States out of war is to so lower our already comparatively weak system of national defense...