I Always Felt From The Beginning That

I Regard The Principle Of Conscription Of Life As A Flat Contradiction Of All Our Cherished Ideals Of Individual Freedom, Democratic Liberty And Christian Teaching.

The Nazi-soviet Pact Of 1939, A Traumatic Shock To Me, Ended Any Ambivalence I Had About The Soviet Union, And All Cooperation With Communists In United Fronts.

The Rule Of Law In Place Of Force, Always Basic To My Thinking, Now Takes On A New Relevance In A World Where, If War Is To Go, Only Law Can Replace It.

I Always Felt From The Beginning That You Had To Defend People You Disliked And Feared As Well As Those You Admired.

I Cannot Consistently, With Self Respect, Do Other Than I Have, Namely, To Deliberately Violate An Act Which Seems To Me To Be A Denial Of Everything Which Ideally And In Practice I Hold Sacred.