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...During the week a tractor-drawn truck. creaking beneath the weight of 6,000.000 pacifist signatures, hove in sight of the Conference with 15 women seated upon it, each waving a Peace Flag. This tribute the Conference received. Also the Conferees began to refer informally to the U. S. female delegate as "Doc," a tag fastened upon Delegate Mary Emma Woolley, Litt. D., by the irrepressible Will Rogers. To the Press "Doc" said: "I never yet have met a difficulty out of which a way could not be found. Some-thing more than a paring here and there is needed...
...during 1917 and 1918 many institutions were swept into taking away from great scientists and thinkers the honors given them. A taint of Germanism was sufficient to brand a great man as an enemy to be despised. A slight leaning towards peace was sufficient to label a man a pacifist or a traitor to democracy...
...Because of indications that Mrs. Stanford lived several hours after the crash, Aviatrix Ruth Nichols, Quaker, pacifist, obtained a pistol permit in Westchester County, N. Y. so that she might signal for help in case of a forced landing in a wilderness...
...Enforcement, the American Society for Judicial Settlement of International Disputes, the League for Permanent Peace and the World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship Throughout the Churches. A Republican. Miss Woolley supported the Democrats in 1920 because they were pledged to the League of Nations. As a "theoretical pacifist," she was blacklisted by several chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution...
...Geneva Pacifist Gandhi stopped briefly with his French biographer. Pacifist Remain Rolland (Nobel Prize for Literature 1915), hoped to be received by Pope Pius XI before sailing from Brindisi for India...