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Sued. Upton Sinclair, writer, and William Fox, onetime cinema producer; by Rosika Schwimmer, Hungarian-born pacifist; for $100,000 damages. Charge: that in Writer Sinclair's indignant book. Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox, she was depicted as an "arch-hypocrite" in approaching Producer Fox with the Peace Ship plan which she also took to Henry Ford.* Died. Reinhold Tiling, 37, German rocket plane experimenter; of injuries suffered when a rocket he was charging with liquid explosive blew up in his laboratory, killing one assistant, wounding another; at Osnabrück, Germany. Died. Charles Hamilton Sabin, 65. board chairman...
...Excerpt (Writer Sinclair quoting Producer Fox): " 'A lady called on me and said she was Mrs. Rosika Schwimmer, and she asked me the following questions: ''How would you like to have your name on the front page of every newspaper of the world? How would you like to have your name discussed at every dinner table? How would you like to be the most talked-of man in the history of the world? How would you like to sell twenty times more pictures than you do now? ... I have a plan. I have chartered a boat...
...that a native-born U. S. citizen is under a legal obligation to bear arms in war. Many a U. S. religious leader, and a large section of the Christian Press, hold on the contrary that God's will is more binding. Notable were the cases of Rosika Schwimmer, Yale Professor Douglas Clyde Macintosh and Nurse Marie Averill Bland, aliens who were refused citizenship because they refused to promise unqualifiedly to bear arms (TIME, Jan. 25). Last week it looked as if they were to be joined by Rev. Thomas Frederick Rutledge Beale of St. Paul, Minn...
...denial of citizenship to all conscientious objectors to war was recently confirmed when a congressional committee emphatically rejected the proposed Griffin bill, an attempt to put into law the minority opinions of the Supreme Court in the Bland, Schwimmer, and Macintosh cases. The rejection of this bill is a natural consequence of the revival of nationalism which the country is now experiencing. But it reveals a spirit utterly at variance with the principles of American government, and with the best contemporary thought...
...Hughes strongly dissenting, is that an applicant for citizenship must be willing to support the Government in a time of war. There can be no mental reservations in taking the oath of allegiance. While it is true that this decision follows the precedent set in the case of Rosika Schwimmer, it was argued before the Supreme Court that the circumstances were different in the application of Dr. Macintosh. But all was to no avail, and the majority of the judges laid down what must now be held to be the law--that naturalization cannot be granted to an alien...