Word: forbidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conscientious objector "any person . . . who, by reason of religious training and belief, is conscientiously opposed to participation in war in any form." It is not necessary for the objector, as you suppose, to be a member of any well recognized religious sect like the Quakers, whose creed or principles forbid participation in war. It is enough under the law if the man himself is opposed to war on religious grounds. He must of course convince the proper authorities of the sincerity of his belief in order to be assigned to nonmilitary service. The present law is wider than...
...Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to require or compel any person to serve in a combatant capacity in any of the public armed forces of the United States, who is found to be a member of any well-recognized religious sect whose creed or principles forbid its members to participate in war in any form, if the conscientious holding of such belief by such person shall be established under such regulations as the President may prescribe; but no person shall be relieved from service in such capacity as the President may declare to be noncombatant...
...Congress declared in principle that draftees and one-year volunteers can vote in person or by absentee ballot. But the States determine who can vote; Congress actually has nothing to say about it. Twenty-nine States forbid soldiers on active duty to vote while 19 others* restrict but do not outlaw balloting by soldiers...
Military training should be given, not to make a professional soldier, but so that the youngsters will be able to take care of themselves, if necessity arises, which God forbid...
...Germany defeats England and attempts to invade the Americas-God forbid-and if we have no other remaining consolation worth having, at least we will know what we are fighting for. We will also know we are not attempting to preserve a mistaken ideal, and above all, we may be spared the ignominy of making the same mistake twice...