And if the Christians have not helped us to avoid war, how should the pacifists be of use?

It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, essentially pacifists, towards taking an active part in the war against German imperialism, but it was a phrase whose chief content was its aspiration.

In the year 1913, under Swiss auspices, a meeting of French and German pacifists was arranged at Berne.

At the end of a few months I had the impression that these pacifists personified thenin 1912the most common, the most widely spread, though the least noisy, opinion, the opinion of the majority, understanding by the majority, not that of the governing classes but that of the nation as a whole (p. 172).

Even in Berlin society and among the ancient German nobility there were to be found sincere pacifists.

It is understood that the pacifists are protesting against this encouragement of the martial spirit among the young.

Nationality, that strange, inarticulate, unanalysable force that can call all men to her tents in the hour of crisis and danger, seems to have overthrown the international forces of to-day, the Socialists, the Pacifists, and, strongest of all, the Capitalists, as it overthrew Napoleon and his dreams of Empire a hundred years ago.

This same class of handpicked courts and juries also convicted many labor leaders, socialists, non-partisans, pacifists, guilty of no crime save that of loyalty to the working class.

It has been said so many times by extreme pacifists that even sane human beings sometimes take it for granted, that "force never accomplished anything permanent in human history."

He should not be confounded with those parlour pacifists covered with official decorations and grand cordons of international orders, for whom peace is a gilt-edged investment in quiet times.

In these artifices the poor pacifists saw a way to get out of their dilemma; it was not a very brilliant way and they were not proud of it, but it was their only chance.

The agonised public turned on the suspects among them, the defeatists and the pacifists, and for days at a time the baying of an accusing public pursued these miserable creatures and hunted them down.

Before-the-war pacifists will all come out of their holes, and be found at their posts, with touching demonstrations of joy, while their old leaders who have been beating the drum in the rear for over five years will reappear with olive branches in their hands, smiling and talking of brotherly love.

It is the pacifists' fault that it has dragged on so long.

What with the aircraft strike at Coventry and the activities of Lord LANSDOWNE, LENIN and others, this has been a great week for Pacifists and Pro-Bosches.

*** "Measures are being taken to check pacifists," says Sir GEORGE CAVE.

" Pacifists beware!

* OUR PACIFISTS.

He was the most genuine and the most wicked of pacifists.

Rapp, Senior, said that was all very well, but these pacifists would keep us out of war yet.

These pacifists belie their own construction.

When pacifists are traitors.

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When pacifists are traitors.

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