Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...optimist and states in strong and, I do not doubt, sincere words her belief that war will disappear. ... I do not share that optimism nor do I think that a philosophic view of the world would regard war as absurd, but most people who have known it regard it with horror...
...war in which women of 52 are conscripted, given arms, drilled, regimented and sent to the front to fight, is hard to imagine. Yet a majority of the Supreme Court of the U. S. last week did imagine such a situation vividly enough to deny citizenship to an alien woman of 52 who declined to promise to bear arms in defense...
...Surely it cannot show lack of attachment to the principles of the Constitution that she thinks it can be improved. I suppose most intelligent people think it might. Her particular improvement, looking to the abolition of war, seems to me not materially different . . . from a wish to establish Cabinet government or a single House or a term of seven years for the President. ... To touch a more burning question, only a judge mad with partisanship would exclude [from citizenship] because the applicant thought the 18th Amendment should be repealed...
...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...
...Justice Holmes fought in the Civil War, was thrice wounded...