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Pacifism, as a religious belief, seems to be declining in the U.S., according to Vernon H. Holloway, associate professor of religion and philosophy at Ohio's Denison University...
...traditional peace sects regarded pacifism as a Christian commandment, to be followed regardless of the consequences. It became diluted between World Wars I & II, says Holloway, by the social thinking of liberal Protestants who hoped to use Christian ideas to reform society. Up until Pearl Harbor, denunciations and renunciations of war "as an instrument of national policy" rang out from many church conventions. But when war came, most churchmen gave it their support...
Writing in the current issue of Religion in Life, Holloway thinks that the old, nonresistance type of pacifism may survive in a few sects. "But modern pacifism, which endeavored to substitute morals for politics, or to equate Gandhi's political shrewdness with the Cross of Christ, may expect to meet greater difficulties...
...blows up, revealing a treasure cache in which there is a document proving that the borough of Pimlico in London does not belong to Britain. Consequently, police protection, ration cards and other legal instruments become suspended, and the inhabitants, for a few days, are sovereigns unto themselves. Though Stanley Holloway offers some excellent touches as the exofficio mayor of Pimlico, most of the scenes are only moderately amusing to an American audience; rationing and queues are too far behind...
...Dahlgren Hall, Ensign Wesley Anthony Brown, U.S.N., got his diploma, joyfully tossed his cap in the air with those of his 789 classmates. His mother, plump Mrs. Rosetta Brown, who had pressed pants to help him through high school, watched proudly from the galleries. Rear Admiral J. L. Holloway Jr., the Academy superintendent, greeted her at the June Week garden party. Brown and his Annapolis girl friend, Sylvia Hicks Johnson (see cut), an undertaker's secretary, danced together at the class farewell ball...