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...Britain, the Greenham raid put an end, for the moment, to Western Europe's longest-running antimissile demonstration. Since the summer of 1981, when 50 pacifist women marched to Greenham Common from Wales, the encampment has attracted female protesters from all over Western Europe and the U.S. More than 1,200 protesters have been arrested (average fine: $30) and scores jailed, mostly for obstructing military vehicles and damaging government property...
DIED. Martin Niemöller, 92, German theologian, preacher and pacifist who spent seven years in Nazi concentration camps for his outspoken opposition to Adolf Hitler; in Wiesbaden, West Germany. A U-boat commander during World War I, he became a minister in the Lutheran Evangelical Church in 1924. Though an early Nazi supporter, Niemöller led the clerical opposition after Hitler came to power in 1933, crying, "Not you, Herr Hitler, but God is my Führer." Hitler responded by sending him to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1938 and later to Dachau. After...
Even the most cursory glance at the faculty register reveals that leftist academics by no means saturate the University. For every "unremitting pacifist" and "self-avowed Marxist" that the conservatives name they fail to mention the Government professors who, in the recent past, have gone on record as opposing affirmative action, supporting the invasion of Grenada, and maintaining that authoritarian regimes may be the most suited for the tasks of Third World development. Perhaps the leaflet should also have stated that the Economics department carries only two Marxists, who themselves once had good reason to fear that their convictions would...
...Hoffmann--who is away on leave this year and thus spared the task of correcting the Harvard Republicans' puerile inaccuracies--are equally false. First, Professor Hoffmann is not Chairman of the Government Department, as a glance at the course catalogue would have established. Secondly, he is not a "unremitting pacifist," as his recent book Duties Beyond Borders (p.10) explicitly states...
...particularly the years when the Nazi stain spread over Europe, and when the Nazis occupied France. This has kept me with a lifelong, perverse preoccupation with world wars; and again, to make my biases very clear. I do not like them. So while I am not a pacifist, Christian or otherwise--the experience of the Thirties, so perfectly distilled in Ionesco's Rhinoceros, rules this out--I have a very strong belief that no war is very often better than war (indeed, a world war was avoidable as late as September 1938). It would be a mistake to make...