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...admirer of Senator Fulbright, and during Kennedy's Administration I expected him to be the Secretary of State. Since he started the Senate investigation of Viet Nam policy [Feb. 18], I have been shocked. He could not choose a more inopportune time. I fear that the bitniks-pacifists will really succeed in making null and void all pur efforts to settle the war. I suggest making him a four-star general of the bitnik-pacifist army, and sending all of them to Viet...
...early 1941, when Hitler's troops stood poised across the English Channel from Britain, American churchmen had mixed feelings about U.S. entry into the war. One of the most outspoken advocates of the Allied cause was Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, a onetime pacifist who had come to see that stance as "utopianism" in the face of Nazism's threat to Western civilization. With a group of like-minded thinkers, Niebuhr founded a biweekly journal of Christian opinion to oppose the prevailing pacifism of church leaders and to relate the Gospel message to problems of war and peace...
Burning a draft card, argued the de fense, is "an integral part of free speech" and therefore protected under the First Amendment. Not so, ruled Federal Judge Harold Tyler Jr. Thus Pacifist David Miller, 23, the first U.S. citizen to be arrested and indicted under a 1965 federal law prohibiting the destruction of a draft card, last week in Manhattan became the first to be found guilty of breaking that law. Judge Tyler deferred sentencing until next month, and Miller, who works at New York's Catholic Worker Hospitality House, a religious-pacifist organization, remained free on $500 bond...
Died. Kathleen Norris, 85, grandmother of the American sentimental novel (Passion Flower, Heartbroken Melody), widow of Author Charles G. Norris (Salt) and sister-in-law of the late social novelist Frank Norris (McTeague), a feminist and pacifist who in nearly half a century turned out 81 relentlessly wholesome books (10,000,000 copies sold), plus reportage and innumerable short stories for women's magazines; following a stroke; in San Francisco. "I write," she once said, "for people with simple needs, like myself," and her books played endless variations on a single theme: "Get a girl in all kinds...
...legislature convened, S.N.C.C. Chairman John Lewis issued a typically intemperate statement. He condemned the U.S.'s "aggressive policy in violation of international law" and voiced his support of draft dodgers. Reporters sought out Bond, asked him if he concurred in the Snick statement. Replied Bond: "Fully." Later, Pacifist Bond added: "I admire the courage of anyone who burns his draft card"-even though he does not advocate draft-card burning and has not burned his own Selective Service classification I-Y card (exempt on physical, mental or moral grounds except in time of war or national emergency...