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Last April the emergency committee, which is sponsored by the pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation, took a two-page ad in the New York Times to proclaim: MR. PRESIDENT: IN THE NAME OF GOD, STOP IT! Many of its members showed up in Washington a month later for a mass vigil at the Pentagon, protesting escalation of the Viet...
...Oxford Union that when in 1933 it resolved "That this House would not fight for King and Country," a storm of controversy swept Britain, and historians as authoritative as Winston Churchill have said that Hitler and Mussolini pursued their plans on the theory that all Britain was going pacifist...
...telly, and the rank and file scarcely noticed, so busy were they applauding his simultaneous thwack on the expense-account set. Abroad, Wilson has managed to get on agreeably with the leaders of France and West Germany-no easy feat, particularly in Paris. Despite anguished cries from the pacifist left of his own party, Wilson has supported the U.S. in Viet Nam and made plain his intention to keep Britain's far-flung military establishment intact and in service to the West from Aden to Malaysia...
...Millis does not foresee a comprehensive world government nor does he seek to purge the power element from international relations. His international police will only have the authority to insist that power disputes be settled non-militarily. Their success in this endeavor rests squarely on the endurance of the pacifist consensus; the international police will be unable to prevent the resumption of the arms race, for their job will be purely investigatory...
...have suppressed violence, that the terror which they inspire is so great as to effectively militate against their use. He fails to demonstrate why it is not more logical to attribute the recent international detente to fear rather than to moral enlightenment, to terror rather than to a fundamental pacifist consensus...