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Denys P. Myers, Director of the World Peace Foundation, representing the pacifist and League of Nations side of the question tops the list of speakers announced by the Liberal Club, the National Students League, and the Students League for Industrial Democracy, sponsors of the Peace Conference. The militarist view of the prospects for peace will be expounded by Colonel Oliver L. Spaulding, Jr., professor of Military Science and Tactics, and head of the R.O.T.C. unit at Harvard, which was the target for much of the criticism of the pacifists...
...were desperately needed during the evenings I still have enough confidence in Harvard to believe that the money would be supplied without robbing any other department. Longer hours would be a convenience but no more. To an impartial judge, neither a communistic member of the Liberal Club nor a militarist, it would seem a very costly convenience if it required doing away with preparation for self-defense as carried on at Harvard. Don't misunderstand me. If it were a question of maintaining the military and naval courses or of keeping the library open a reasonable length of time...
Without consulting Premier Viscount Makato Saito or obtaining the consent of the civilian Cabinet, Militarist Araki called in correspondents and proposed that Japan hold in 1935 a Pacific Powers Conference with three objectives: 1) "To revise the Nine-Power Treaty" (signed at Washington to guarantee the territorial and administrative integrity of China which Japan violated by seizing Manchukuo). 2) "To revise the Kellogg Peace Pact" (violated in effect by Japan's waging of undeclared war). 3) "To lay the basis for a new naval treaty...
Against this bull-like entrance by Militarist Araki into the china shop of world diplomacy, the Japanese Foreign Office dared not protest directly, but Yomiuri, a Tokyo newspaper close to Foreign Minister Hirota, cautiously declared: "The Foreign Office is believed to oppose the Conference since the idea behind it is based on lack of real knowledge of the international situation...
...article that will appeal to almost everyone. While it is largely a catalogue of the facts, figures, and activities of the great war materials firms, it contains information not generally available in such terse form. The pacifist will find here material for endless confounding of his opponents; the militarist and members of the firm of Du Pont de Nemours will be stimulated to thought and research into their consciences. After listening however, to the recital of the enormous war-time profits of arms manufacturers, and of the interlocking directorates of the companies in various nations, and of the coy manner...