Word: pacifists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...telly, and the rank and file scarcely noticed, so busy were they applauding his simultaneous thwack on the expense-account set. Abroad, Wilson has managed to get on agreeably with the leaders of France and West Germany-no easy feat, particularly in Paris. Despite anguished cries from the pacifist left of his own party, Wilson has supported the U.S. in Viet Nam and made plain his intention to keep Britain's far-flung military establishment intact and in service to the West from Aden to Malaysia...
...Millis does not foresee a comprehensive world government nor does he seek to purge the power element from international relations. His international police will only have the authority to insist that power disputes be settled non-militarily. Their success in this endeavor rests squarely on the endurance of the pacifist consensus; the international police will be unable to prevent the resumption of the arms race, for their job will be purely investigatory...
...have suppressed violence, that the terror which they inspire is so great as to effectively militate against their use. He fails to demonstrate why it is not more logical to attribute the recent international detente to fear rather than to moral enlightenment, to terror rather than to a fundamental pacifist consensus...
Crusading Pacifist. Born and brought up in conservative upstate New York, Eastman could trace his ancestry to Mayflower days. Both his parents were Congregational ministers. But as he describes his childhood in an earlier book, Enjoyment of Living, he became imbued with the notion that all repressions must be cast off and life lived with absolute freedom. Settling in New York City, he was made editor in 1912 of the influential radical magazine, the Masses, set about upgrading the dowdy journal with incendiary proposals for revolutionizing the American way of life (some of the proposals, like women's suffrage...
...manner authorized by the law, and may the Lord have mercy on your soul!" The abolition of the death penalty was carried in the House of Commons last week by a vote of 355 to 170.*The bill was a "private member's motion," introduced by Pacifist Sydney Silverman, 69, a Labor M.P. who has fought against the gallows for nearly 30 years. The Conservative Party in the past has opposed abolition, but much support for the bill came from such Tory chiefs as Iain Macleod, Sir Derek Walker-Smith and ex-Home Secretary Henry Brooke. And the voting...