Word: objectors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Dennett further claimed that the outbreak of war had been instrumental in changing the applications of many objectors who formerly had signified their intention to enter the country's objector camps, but now wish to enlist in active service...
...Tuesday's article on the draft registration you stated that no one of 1300 registrants indicated his status as a conscientious objector, thus showing the high war morale. The country is at war, and so far as I can see, the morale is fairly high, but the legal time for the pacifist to register his objections to war occurs when he receives his questionnaire, at which time he may request and fill out the special form number forty-seven...
...myself attempted to write that I am a conscientious objector on my draft registration card, when I registered in Memorial Hall on Sunday. However, my registrar was so firmly against it that I acquiesced, since the procedure is not legally proper. There are at least fourteen other active members of the Harvard Pacifist Association who will state their objection to war when they receive their questionnaires. Marvin J. Shapivo '42. Dunster...