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...politicians, business leaders and farmers. Its leading figure is Rodolfo Seguel, a 29-year-old cashier at a grimy mining center, who rose from obscurity five months ago to become the chief of the Copper Workers Confederation and is sometimes called the Chilean Lech Walesa. Said he: "We are pacifist in attitude and active in behavior. If they hit us with clubs, we will endure. We will speak with them only of a serious return to democracy. Of myself, there is nothing special. I am committed to my roots, representing nothing else...
...insist on the right question, because to say that Gandhi would have failed against the radical and unique evil of Nazi Germany is to say merely that he would have failed against history's exception (and done no worse than much of a heavily armed and decidedly non-pacifist Europe). But to say, as Ho Chi Minn did in 1922, that Gandhi "would have long since entered heaven had [he] been born in one of the French colonies" is to admit that the failure of nonviolence may be the historical rule...
...pacifism is not the practice of a crackpot cult. It represents a strongly felt, but almost invisible current of contemporary American thought. Invisible, because its most serious manifestation is not the antinuclear movement, which is neither particularly new (it is as old as its twin, the Bomb) nor necessarily pacifist, since one need not be a pacifist to oppose the suicide that is nuclear war. Apart from the question of unilateralism, a belief less in pacifism than in the safety of surrender, the only real debate on nuclear war is about how to prevent it. When it comes to nuclear...
...they might not win the 5% of the vote necessary to hold seats in the Bundestag. If neither Kohl nor Vogel had won an absolute majority last Sunday, West Germans might have then been faced with a parliament in which the balance of power was held by the antinuclear, pacifist Greens. The latter would not support Kohl, and they had earlier declared that they would back Vogel only if he agreed to the complete denuclearization, military and commercial, of West Germany...
Coming as it did at the height of the nuclear-missile controversy in Western Europe, the debate played to a packed house. Spectators listened politely as Pacifist Leader Helen John warned, "If there's a war, we won't be able to debate again in 50 years." But they jeered when she called Britain "an occupied country" because of the U.S. military bases there. Conversely, they applauded when former Prime Minister Lord Alec Douglas-Home said, "I am fearful when I see unilateralists sending out signals to a dictatorship that is mobilized with enormous armed forces and practices...