Word: pacifists
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Almost overnight after the invasion of Belgium and Holland, isolationist and pacifist letters practically disappeared from TIME'S incoming mail. The following letters are a cross section of recent comment about the U. S. and the war. It shows the emergence of feelings and beliefs that have evidently been long latent and inarticulate, the sharpest apparent change in reader-opinion in TIME'S experience...
...women were interned as enemy aliens. The net thrown out for fifth columnists and quislings brought in some bigger fish, including Leader Sir Oswald Mosley of the British Union of Fascists; Captain Archibald Henry Maule Ramsay, Conservative M. P. and ardent Hitlerite; onetime M. P. John Beckett, militant pacifist and nuisance (he once tried to steal the Speaker's mace in the House of Commons); Germany's master spy and saboteur in World War I, Captain Franz von Rintelen...
...previous fear of war might well result in the certainty of a conflict without the support of powerful nations. The pacifist would then, indeed, have dug the grave of liberalism...
...first eight months of World War 11 most U. S. churchmen were pacifist, isolationist. Likewise isolationist were most other U. S. citizens. But since May 10, remarkable changes have come over plain U. S. isolationists: With German Blitzkrieg in the Low Countries, they veered from isolation almost as fast as German columns advanced...
...Portland, Ore., the Rev. Henry Guy Goodsell (Methodist): "We can't be neutral. ... I think we should preserve the status quo . . . I'm not the simon-pure pacifist I used...