Word: pacifistically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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James Hayes, head of the march, which is sponsored by a pacifist group called the Committee for Nonviolent Action (CNVA), described the incident in a telephone interview last night...
...Pacifist Protest. Virtually ignoring the torrent of expensive wedding gifts, White House handouts played up the sentimental, homey and offbeat: from Uncle Tony Taylor in Texas, a set of six silver syllabub cups that had belonged to Grandmother Minnie Lee Patillo Taylor; Texas-shaped cookie cutters from Mrs. Jake Pickle, wife of the Congressman who holds L.B.J.'s old seat; from Mrs. Orville Freeman, a jeweled Pakistani nose ring, symbolizing female submission to her mate (who, vows the bride, will never become "Mister Luci Johnson"). The bipartisan House leadership took up a collection for a congressional gift, but Iowa...
...Socialist, he was a pacifist. But he was also tough. When the Germans invaded Belgium in 1940, the German ambassador called on Foreign Minister Spaak to read a statement from Hitler. The German never got a chance to speak. "My turn first, Mr. Ambassador," said Spaak, before he threw the German out. Escaping from the Wehrmacht, Spaak spent the war in London as Foreign Minister of the Belgian government-in-exile...
During the fall of 1916 and the winter of 1917 the issue had changed from "should the U.S. prepare?", to "how should the U.S. prepare?", and the dispute between the preparers and the pacifists flared up again. It was at this time that the Senate began to discuss the Chamberlain Bill, calling for universal military service. Many Harvard organizations, including the Student Council and the CRIMSON, supported conscription, but pacifist organizations from several Eastern universities, including Harvard, sent delegations to the Senate committee which was hearing testimony on the Bill. Speaking for the International Polity Club, several Harvard students told...
...pacifist movement was not completely dead. At the end of January a majority of students at the Divinity School signed a petition which was sent to Congress opposing any form of conscription on the grounds that it was un-Christian, contrary to American ideals, and self-defeating since it bred international misunderstanding and distrust. As war became more imminent, such protests became more unusual, and an increasing number of students at the University entered some form of voluntary military training...