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Alvin York, a conscientious objector ("War's ag'in the Book"), changed his mind after a heart-to-heart talk with his superior officer and a plodding, nightlong bout with U.S. history. His feat in France that brought him a Congressional Medal of Honor is still a nonpareil: singlehanded he killed 20 German soldiers, captured 132 more with a squad of seven...
Thomas C. Hall '44, the conscientious objector who left College in order not to register under the Selective Service Act, has been sentenced to two years imprisonment by Judge Goddard of U. S. District Court in New York...
...residence, Hall has been working in New York. He visited Cambridge last week and the news of his sentence was just received yesterday. He objected to war on intellectual, religious, and humanitarian bases, stressing his point of view that "it is really the military-minded person who is the objector--an objector to naturalness, peaceful and simple living...
...spite of their undoubtedly good intentions, the film distributors who have ostracized conscientious objector Lew Ayre's may be classed with the school principals who expelled juvenile Jehovah's Witnesses for their religious views. It would be different if there were some doubt as to Ayres's sincerity. If he had suddenly been converted to the stand he has taken, or if there were any other reason to believe that his views were purely opportunistic, then there might be some justification for banning his pictures. But the fact is that nobody has denied his sincerity, and no informed person doubts...
Cinemactor Lew (Dr. Kildare) Ayres, who scored his first screen hit in the anti-war All Quiet On the Western Front, was sent to an undisclosed camp in the West as a conscientious objector. Of the 33-year-old ex-husband of Ginger Rogers the chairman of his draft board said: "We finally came to the conclusion that his objections to Army service were sincere. That's about all there is to say about the matter...