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...pacifist is a person who, on religious or moral grounds, objects to all wars, defensive or offensive. A conscientious objector is one who reserves to himself the right to decide whether to support his country in a particular war. When the U. S. entered the World War, more than 64,000 citizens applied, on grounds of conscience, for exemption from combat service. But fewer than 4,000 went further, demanded exemption from noncombatant duty. Most of these were sent to farms and camps; 486 were sentenced to prison, 17 to death. (But no one was executed...
...many conscientious objectors there will be, the Handbook does not attempt to say. It estimates that there are 1,000,000 pacifists in the U. S.-on the basis of questionnaires circulated among ministers and churchgoers in recent years, and of the enrollment of the avowed pacifist churches (Quakers, Mennonites, Brethren, Churches of Christ, Assemblies of God). Moreover, some of the biggest Protestant churches, among them the Northern Baptist,' Methodist and Disciples of Christ, have gone on record as claiming for their conscientious objector members the same exemption from combatant service which the Quakers and others will expect...
With but one serious objector, the University Faculty seems united in backing the ultimatum issued yesterday by Percy W. Bridgman '04, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, banning totalitarian visitors from his laboratory...
...born with an urge to protest. At 15, he followed his father into the Socialist Party, and soon he was deep in Leftist ferment. When World War Objector Earl Browder emerged from Leavenworth Penitentiary in 1920, William ZebuIon Foster and "Big Bill" Haywood had splintered away from the Debs Socialists, had formed "Communist" parties. Two years afterward, with Browder close at hand, they fused their factions into the Communist Party of the U. S. A., affiliated with the Third International, plunged into the underground era of Communism. Then to be known as a Red was to be hunted, beaten, jailed...
...about the plates was a 42-year-old unemployed boiler mechanic of White Plains, one Martin McBohin, a Wartime Marine sergeant. Last week Martin McBohin stuck adhesive tape over the offensive lettering and was promptly arrested for defacing a license plate. Sure that he was standing on his rights, Objector McBohin, up for trial this week, roundly declared: "I'm prepared to appeal the case to the highest court." Indignantly he added: "Next thing you know the State will compel us to advertise someone's corn flakes." More serious to traffic experts was the fact that in order...