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...Hopkins University and a graduate cum laude of Harvard Law School, where he had been a favorite student of Professor Felix Frankfurter. The year was 1929, and he had won the coveted apprenticeship job of law-clerking for Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. He married Priscilla Fansler Hobson, 26, a Quaker a divorcee and the mother of a three-year...
...Catastrophe. Klaus Fuchs (rhymes with books) was born 38 years ago in Russelsheim, Germany. His father, Emil Fuchs, was first a Protestant minister, became a Quaker in 1925. He was a lifelong member of the Socialist Party and a pacifist. During the 1930s the Nazis persecuted the whole family because of the father's Socialism and pacifism. Emil Fuchs spent nine months in a concentration camp. One of Klaus's sisters, a painter, became an active anti-Nazi political worker, helped her husband to escape from Germany, jumped to her death beneath a Berlin subway train after persecution...
...Douglas was-dogmatic about another party too: his proposed alliance of farmers, workers and consumers should have no truck with the Communists. In 1935, he and his wife went abroad, stood in the Palazzo Venezia the day Mussolini sent Italy into the Ethiopian war. Douglas, who had become a Quaker in 1920, turned away from pacifism then & there. He heard and approved Franklin Roosevelt's warnings against dictators. And he discovered that Roosevelt had cribbed a lot of the Socialists' ideas. He decided there was indeed a logical place in American life for the Democrats...
Chambers had been an atheist, an Episcopalian, a Quaker: "inability to make stable attachments." He had touched Julian Wadleigh for $20 and Hiss for small sums which he had never repaid: "panhandling...
Protestantism may be perishing for lack of adequate religious symbols. So writes Quaker Author Douglas Steere, professor of philosophy at Haverford College, in the current issue of the quarterly Religion in Life...