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Professor Quidde, German pacifist, wrote a letter to Hans von Seecht, Commander-in-Chief of the Reichswehr. He deplored the fact that young Germans were being given military training. He pointed out that the Versailles Treaty was thereby being flagrantly and dangerously defied. He explained that the French were angered. He prophesied that enemies of the Fatherland would one day make "these military preparations" an excuse for invasion...
...have such a socialistic state over here", continued Mr. Russell when told about the recent dispute over the R. O. T. C., "that you have no personal liberty. The individual is too prone to follow the crowd. So although I approve of pacifist movements in universities, I myself would be much too individualistic to bother about abolishing your Military Science 'Department, I would merely refuse to have anything to do with...
...documents both subsequent and prior to Senator Owen's speech, which somewhat reduce the importance of this particular speech as a new discovery or bit of suppressed truth. The last communication is especially notable as a cool, and rather mature statement of one phase of Pacifism. To be a pacifist undoubtedly requires a struggle. It is a struggle with more or less natural feelings, with carefully inculcated ideas, with popular opinion. One disregards the facts who considers pacifism the easy way to tread. Whether it will prove to be the best way is still a matter of opinion...
There is an objection to limiting the term, Pacifist, to those who refuse to go to war and those who favor them. There are many who are just as extreme in their hostility to war, but whose conception of the State and her prerogatives forbids them to disobey her decrees. The very fact of his living in an organization such as the State makes, a man liable to her laws. Though these laws be against his conscience, he must obey them as he would his parents. The Draft Law was against the conscience of many people...
...certainly there is no religion or philosophy of life which permits a man to kill his fellow. So does war violate a man's ethical principles. Combine these two concepts, of the State and of the Conscience, and you have the Pacifist. Consequently, a vote condemning those who refuse to go to war is not a defeat for Pacifism. PHILIP C. JOHNSON...