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...current issue of Britain's Marxist Modern Quarterly, Professor Haldane, after some obviously painful soul-searching, has found a fairly reasonable, though notably un-Marxian answer: these is much to be said on both sides...
When he got out, Gara found a job as history teacher and dean of men at Ohio's small, Mennonite Bluffton College. For 26-year-old Larry Gara and his wife, Lanna Mae, a new life opened up. But last fall his conscience dropped him into hot water again. When one of Bluffton's students refused to register for peacetime military training, Gara and his wife hustled...
Gara scolded the police for arresting the student, wrote a letter of protest to the district attorney, presently found himself on trial for having "counseled, aided and abetted" another person in evading draft regulations. Though Gara claimed that he had merely upheld the student's right to follow his conscience, Toledo's District Court Judge Frank Le Blond Kloeb took an unsentimental view of the matter. Judge Kloeb instructed the jury to find Gara guilty if what he had said to the Bluffton student "had a tendency to encourage or cause [him] to continue his refusal to register...
...attack at Pearl Harbor found Hachiro Yuasa again on a visit to the U.S.-a thin, spidery little man of 51 who had become one of Japan's top scholars and educators. But before anything else, Yuasa was still a Christian; he decided to stay on in America in protest against the war. From 1942 to 1946 he worked as consultant for a New York interdenomination committee to help U.S. Japanese. "I am 100% Japanese," Yuasa explained, "but I am a Christian Japanese ... I wish to be a symbol of the Church Universal...
...designer may never be found out until the day of judgment," Neutra goes on, "but if he supplies his victims with a daily round of tiny or coarse irritations, unwittingly or not, he's a menace. It's the little sore we overlook which later proves malignant. To be used to having a telephone pole in front of your view window does not make it wholesome. Bad acoustics can lead to shouting, and this calls forth an argumentative mood...