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Lessing. At Marienbad, near the German border, lived bearded little Professor Theodor Lessing, an exile from Germany. A pacifist and a Jew, Professor Lessing had been converted to Christianity, but returned to Israel after students, enraged by his radical opinions, forced his resignation from Hanover Technical College and the Hitler Government confiscated his property. To Marienbad he fled, taking with him as his chief treasure the walking stick of the great philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. Last week while the 18th World Zionist Congress squab- bled hoarsely in Prague, someone raised a clumsy fire ladder to the third floor window of Professor...
...Such disasters have been inflicted before by alert, aggressive military nations upon easy going, indifferent pacifist nations whose government was neglectful, short-sighted and incompetent...
...Because she is so persuasive in expounding Henry Street, people say that it costs $1,000 to sit next her at a dinner party. She has been persuasive with legislators, helping put through nearly all New York's social reforms of the past 30 years. Miss Wald, a pacifist, has been black-listed by the D. A. R. but she counts among her friends, and the friends of Henry Street, Governor Herbert Henry Lehman (who once worked in the Settlement), Alfred Emanuel Smith (whose native Oliver Street is hard by), the late Theodore Roosevelt and Ramsay MacDonald. Last spring...
According to all the accused, they had thought that "pacifist" Premier Inukai's jingoist War Minister, Lieut. -General Sadao Araki, would succeed him as Premier instead of remaining War Minister, which he still...
Blandly his host the new Premier, Admiral Viscount Makoto Saito, led the way to that chamber in his official residence where naval petty officers did Premier Inukai to death because they thought him "too pacifist" (TIME, May 23). Cinemactor Chaplin was shown the very spot on the floor from which bloodstained tatami (matting) had to be removed (see cut). He had previously lunched with young Ken Inukai, son of the murdered Premier. "As you know, Mr. Chaplin," said Son Inukai, "it was my late father's wish to receive you while Premier...