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...Union years saw head-spinning political changes in Niebuhr. Although he ran for Congress on the Socialist ticket, he later came to accept the capitalism, tempered by welfare programs, of the New Deal. Niebuhr led the pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation, but later railed against isolationist clergy and supported America's entry into World...
...first mass demonstrations against the U.S. since the pacifist wave of 1983 erupted last week around U.S. military bases and in major West European cities from Milan to Madrid. Thousands marched through streets, calling President Reagan a murderer and demanding that their country withdraw from NATO. The protesters mirrored the official positions of most European governments. When the U.S. planes went into Libya, only the British government of Margaret Thatcher actively supported Reagan. The Mitterrand-Chirac administration in France, like Felipe González Márquez's government in Spain, refused to let U.S. aircraft overfly the two countries. The Italian...
...Although the anniversary comes amid recent surges in Japanese nationalism and intense debate over reforming the country's pacifist constitution, it won't be celebrated nationally, implying Japan is far from embracing its militaristic past. Most Japanese draw a blank on the date; the victory over Russia is far overshadowed by the suffering and shame of World...
...50th anniversary of his death. Both events are being commemorated by a bid to spark fresh interest in the Nobel-prizewinning physicist, who was named Time magazine's Person of the Century in December 1999. "Einstein was not only a brilliant physicist, but also a lateral thinker, pacifist, cosmopolite and visionary," says Gerd Weiberg, head of Germany's Einstein Year celebrations. Here are some highlights of Einstein-related happenings around Europe: Einstein, who was born in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany, in 1879, lived and worked in Berlin for 18 years before emigrating to the U.S. in 1933. And from...
...that they are both the product and beneficiary of Japan's increasing insecurity about its role in the world. The lost decade of the 1990s, when Japan's status as Asia's most vibrant economy slipped, stripped the nation of its primary postwar identity as the world's great pacifist economic power. Now, China's rise seems to have changed the entire nation's thinking about how to conduct its affairs abroad. Polls show that a majority of Japanese are in favor of revising the constitution and nearly half want to abandon the provision against collective defense. Ross Schaap, Japan...