Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Month ago, an Army court-martial at Monterey, Calif, sentenced slight, bespectacled Herbert Weatherbee, one of Jehovah's Witnesses, to prison for life. His crime: refusal to obey a superior officer who ordered him to salute the flag. Last week the American Civil Liberties Union publicized Weatherbee's story, adding it to the growing list of persecutions suffered by the anticlerical, religious group which refuses to bow before any "image" or to fight in any war save Jehovah...
...declaring His name and His kingdom under Jesus Christ." They claim half a million followers in the U.S., several million abroad. In peacetime their nonconformity got them deep in trouble with local and state authorities. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1940 that their children must salute the flag in public schools, in 1942 that they could not distribute literature without peddlers' licenses. Jehovah's Witnesses regard themselves as ministers, but draft boards often refuse to exempt them from Army service. This week more than 450 of the group's men of military age are in prison...
...year ago today," he said, "the dimming lights of Bataan's forlorn hope fluttered and died. . . ... Our flag lies crumpled, its proud pinions spat upon in the gutter; the wrecks of what were once our men and women groan and sweat in prison toil; our faithful Filipino wards, 16,000,000 souls, gasp in slavery...
...Allied invasion of North Africa, seems not very urgent. They want to send troops abroad. Recently General Manuel Rabello was permitted to say, and Brazilian papers were permitted to make much of his saying: "Soldiers, sailors and aviators of Brazil will have to kill and die for the flag of their country and for the United Nations' cause as English, Russians, Americans and Chinese have been dying...
Undergraduates and University Hall alike, then, can no longer regard disciplinary probation as the badge of a collegiate gentleman or a red flag to be liberally waved. The Dean's office must find some substitute as a warning to delinquent reservists; an intermediate step between the proctor's reproach and expulsion must be found. And on the other hand undergraduates must understand that University rules cannot be relaxed because military standards are rigid. The fact that the consequences of probation are often severe is no reason for its application to be abandoned. Abuse can be avoided only if both Deans...