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...plotted the 1948 assassination of Indian independence hero Mohandas Gandhi; in Pune, India. Godse served 16 years in prison for his role in the conspiracy; his brother Nathuram, who shot Gandhi, was executed in 1949. In his old age Godse showed no remorse for the murder of the pacifist leader, whom he believed had betrayed India by encouraging Hindus to coexist peacefully with Pakistan. Gandhi "had to be eliminated to save the country from further damage," Godse told the Hindustan Times...
...three plays with Auden, journeyed to China and just completed the Goodbye to Berlin stories that would inspire the play I Am a Camera! and the musical Cabaret. He sailed to America trailing a blast of recriminations from his friends, who refused to believe he had discovered himself a pacifist just as his country was going to war. If we believe it, it's only because we're privy to his relentlessly honest self-interrogations throughout his massive Diaries, Volume One: 1939-1960 (HarperCollins; 1,048 pages; $40). Heroically edited by Katherine Bucknell, the book takes us through Isherwood...
...believe that Harvard has a duty to promote pacifism, too, then equality should be a crucial first step. Even if every single queer student opted not to join the military, it should be a choice that they have to consciously make. I identify as a pacifist, and would almost always argue against armed conflict as a solution to global problems. It’s unfortunate, though, that I never really have to make that decision for myself and could publicly support a war with the full knowledge that I wouldn’t have to fight for my beliefs. This...
...conflict. Japan has focused on peaceful economic development over the intervening six decades, and can take much of the credit for Asia's 20th century boom. But recent debate over issues such as Japan's bid for a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council, or reforms to its pacifist constitution to allow a standing army, has made some of its neighbors uneasy...
...valet d'armes--their orderly or spear carrier." The Italians have an enduringly bad con-science about Mussolini's colonial war against Libya and, to be sure, are concerned about 4,000 Italians living there today. West German leaders appear to have chosen to indulge the strong, barely dormant pacifist streak in the country...