Word: pacifistically
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...delegates. More important, his victory, with an impressive 40% of the vote, attracted contributions to his impoverished organization. But the money was not enough to allow Kerrey to take to other states the aggressive TV campaign he mounted in South Dakota. For three precious days, he was an unwilling pacifist in a political air war marked by sharply rising bitterness and intensity. The number of negative ads began to increase in proportion to the failure of most of the candidates to build winning streaks with positive messages...
Miyazawa refused to meet opposition demands for closer Diet review of any deployment with the U.N. He lost the backing of some in his own party, who feared they would alienate voters in next summer's election. "Pacifist sentiment, especially among women, is very strong," said Wakako Hironaka, an opposition member who supported the bill. "Some people mistakenly fear that sending troops overseas, even with the United Nations, means the revival of militarism...
Eventually, everyone does get around to saying that the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki made Japan "perhaps the most pacifist society on earth," but no one wants to know what that might mean. They want to believe that Japan has all but rearmed, is perfectly willing to do so when the time comes, and has just been playing 'possum for the last 45 years...
...society that may be the most pacifist on earth, the government's failed attempt to circumvent constitutional curbs in order to send noncombat personnel to the Persian Gulf at American behest provoked widespread outrage. More irritating still was the carping from Washington after Japan pledged $13 billion in aid to the allied effort. Says a high Japanese official: "First Americans taught us that pacifism was a good thing, and then they called us cowards when we did not send troops. Oh, Americans did not say that directly, but we felt that was what they were thinking...
...When one is as old as I, one does not easily change one's ideological hats. My father, who had a Jewish bourgeois background, became a pacifist after his experience in World War I. He soon saw that after the failure of the revolution in Germany in 1918, society could only be changed if a communist ideology were adopted. I believe that mankind's striving for justice and freedom led to the creation of the communist ideology. I reject what always has been a central issue in communism: power, the struggle to obtain it and to keep it. I believe...