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Better known, of course, is M. Buisson, now Honorary President of the League of the Rights of Man. Since he attended the first so-called "Congress for Peace and Liberty" in 1867, he has labored with and assisted almost every famed pacifist from Victor Hugo to Aristide Briand. Hundreds of peace tracts flowed incessantly off his pen during a literary activity of 60 years. Finally, he has raised his voice for peace in the French Parliament? as Herr Quidde has done in the German...
This situation the Chicago Tribune snatched at last week and brandished as a res horrenda, while it blared through the bass horn of its editorial columns: "It is a sign of mental infirmity that the pacifist opponents of the R. O. T. C. never try to relate their rhetoric to plausibility or probability, to conditions, facts or prospects or to anything resembling cause and effect. They have rancor and timidity, physical flinching, addled reasoning, suspicion, pompous illusions and gross fears, but never anything that can be laid alongside a fact or will stand a shot of common sense. Yet this...
...weeds, unperturbed by the passing of derisive foursomes. He is an author of the truest quality and his voice?a voice of liquid gold?is lent to every civic cause. He is a trades unionist in principle and practice but believes in the open shop. He is a fighting pacifist. He is the only man of whom the Encyclopedia Britannica reversed its opinion completely within a decade. General Pershing said of him: 'He has made possible what I have done.' He is a loyal friend, a gracious enemy. In his presence conversation is rarely trivial and never...
...debate surged around the central question, "What is a pacifist?" John Ramage of the London School of Economics gave his conception of a pacifist as "An inverted militarist, one whose natural pugilistic instincts have somehow turned into fresher channels." Commenting with surprise upon the inconsistency of men who could play football, but were appalied at the thought of war. Ramage compared his opponents to the shades in Homer, who "drank blood, but could not look upon...
Thus it was argued that M. Briand might still be suffering from eye trouble-not trouble with his own eyes, but trouble from the stern eye of Premier Raymond Poincaré-an eye that glares discouragement on what it considers the too liberal, too pacifist policies of the squat Foreign Minister...