Word: schwimmer
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...worship) organization, he urged all pacifists to organize, suggested the League of Nations as organizer. His point: If only as much as 2% of men eligible for military service would refuse to fight, there would not be jails enough to hold them, there could be no war. Mme Rosika Schwimmer, pacifist-author, acted as interpreter when the regular translator was struck dumb with excitement...
...court majority flayed Mme. Schwimmer as "an uncompromising pacifist with no sense of nationalism but only a cosmic sense of belonging to the human family...
...Justice Holmes, a most liberal and learned member of the high court, dissented with brilliant vigor, drawing Justices Brandeis and Sanford to his reasoning. Because Mme. Schwimmer believed ardently in peace at any price, Mr. Justice Holmes could see no reason to deny her citizenship on that account. Declared...
...decision left Mme. Schwimmer a woman without a country, for she had renounced her allegiance to Hungary. New York's Congressman Anthony J. Griffin introduced in the House an amendment to the Naturalization Laws to meet Mme. Schwimmer's case, to prevent "philosophic opinions with respect to the lawfulness of war" from barring an alien from citizenship. Said Mr. Griffin: "I do not see why aliens holding the views of Senator Borah ... on the unlawfulness of war should be debarred from citizenship...
...Schwimmer, rendered cynical by her defeat, remarked: "If I had invented a new gun or poison gas I would have been so welcome...