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...second cruise will be headed as before by Albert Bigelow '29. Huntington is staying behind to recruit three additional crew members for a possible third voyage. James Peck of New York is replacing Huntington...
...pacifists and blue arm-band wearers suffer from a serious confusion of values and goals. War is, of course, both morally and politically undesirable, and so is the arms race. But war is not, as Captain Bigelow '29 of the Golden Rule stated, "morally impossible...
...sponsored a demonstration in Nevada last summer, at the Camp Mercury testing grounds. Here, in the same spirit of Gandhian civil disobedience that has guided the crew of the "Golden Rule," eleven people attempted to enter the testing area. They were arrested for trespassing, and given a suspended sentence. Bigelow was a member of this group...
...Bigelow first became aware of the necessity for stopping war in 1945: "Late in World War II, I was a Captain of the destroyer escort DALE W. PETERSON--DE 337--and was on her bridge as we came into Pearl Harbor from San Francisco when the first news arrived of the explosion of an atomic bomb over Hiroshima. Although I had no way of understanding what an atom bomb was, I was absolutely awestruck, as I suppose all men were for a moment. Intuitively it was then that I realized for the first time that morally war is impossible...
...voyage of the Golden Rule Bigelow says: ". . . men are bound by old patterns of feeling, thought, and action. The organs of public opinion are almost completely shut against us. It seems practically impossible, moreover, for the ordinary person by ordinary means to speak to, and affect the action of, his government. . . . It is only by such acts as sailing a boat to Eniwetok and thus 'speaking' to the government right in the testing area that we can expect to be heard...