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Last week the Union resoundingly reversed that pacifist stand. After 3½ hrs. of impassioned speeches from undergraduate and guest speakers, the motion was defeated 416 to 187. YES! cried a Daily Mail headline, THIS TIME THEY WILL FIGHT. It was, in fact, the third Oxford vote to do battle. In 1965, and again in 1981, similar debates were held, and the no votes won, though by narrow margins...
...occasion but today advocates unilateral nuclear disarmament for Britain. One of the featured speakers last week was Member of Parliament Douglas Hogg, who, like his father before him, argued the case for fighting. Another was Historian Max Beloff, 69, who as an Oxford undergraduate 50 years ago supported the pacifist line. This time Beloff, a lord, was on the other side. Said he: "Those of us who voted for the first motion have a duty to atone. Most of those who in this house said that they would not fight did, in fact, fight...
...particular jeopardy were members of the small but active unofficial peace organization that sprang up last June under the name Group to Establish Trust Between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. Its members have been harassed by the KGB for spontaneously forming a pacifist group outside the ranks of the official Soviet Peace Committee. Then, late last year, TASS launched a strong anti-Semitic attack on the pacifists, several of whom are Jewish. Though there is no evidence that the peace group members have a pro-Israeli bias, TASS made the claim that "while supposedly fighting for peace, they openly regret...
...Jesus ever vengeful? Ordinary people are. "Execution is primarily a vengeance mechanism," says Notre Dame's Hauerwas, a pacifist, "but that is not necessarily a bad thing. Vengeance is a way society gestures to itself that justice has force against injustice." A main point of criminal laws, after all, is to make private feuds unnecessary. "No society should put the burden on me to seek personal retribution," says New York University's Herbert I. London, a social historian. "The state has an obligation not to make me a killer...
...Macdonald, 76, contentious cultural watchdog who wryly tilted against both Philistinism and pretension; in New York City. Educated at Exeter and Yale, Macdonald wrote for FORTUNE from 1929 to 1936. His intellectual life was an odyssey: he was a Trotskyite who opposed World War II and singlehanded ran the pacifist-leftist journal Politics (1944-49). Next he declared himself a "conservative anarchist" and in his last major political stand supported the antiwar movement of the '60s. A fastidious critic, he graced Esquire and The New Yorker with sometimes highhanded pronouncements about movies, books and overblown fads. Observing...