I Cannot Consistently, With Self Respect, Do

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.

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.

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.

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.

I Am For Socialism, Disarmament, And, Ultimately, For Abolishing The State Itself... I Seek The Social Ownership Of Property, The Abolition Of The Propertied Class, And The Sole Control Of Those Who Produce Wealth. Communism Is The Goal.