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With Oxford's Union-traditional debating forum of future British statesmen -thus on record by an overwhelming pacifist majority, members of the more obscure Manchester University Union bestirred themselves. Next evening they voted 371 to 196 that This house will under no circumstances fight for its King and Country. During the Oxford vote stink bombs were thrown, but proceedings at Manchester were strictly decorous...
...member of the Diet since that body first met in 1890, is made difficult by the fact that he is nearly stone deaf. But there is nothing the matter with his foresight. Far clearer than most of his countrymen, he has seen which way Japan was heading. An unyielding pacifist, he has campaigned for world disarmament since...
First attempt to assassinate Pacifist Ozaki occurred in 1917 when two Japanese with drawn short swords rushed a lecture platform from which he was speaking. Some time later 13 members of a Japanese nationalist assassination league tried to kill him in his own home, were sent sprawling by four faithful servants who had been studying jiu-jitsu in their spare time against just such an emergency. Shinave Ozaki, one of his quarter-British daughters,* smuggled him out of the house in one of her kimonos. Since then Dr. Ozaki has lived abroad, in Britain and the U. S., lecturing...
Bearing down on the Union's Secretary, the 30 Green Shirts seized the minute book and ripped out its pacifist pages. Carrying their prize to the Martyrs' Memorial, the Gothic needle opposite Balliol College,* they solemnly burned the resolution against defending King & Country...
...GREAT ILLUSION: 1933-Norman Angell-Putnam ($2.50). Revised edition of Pacifist Angell's famed argument against...