I Regard The Principle Of Conscription Of

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 Would Say That Social Work Began In My Mind In The Unitarian Church When I Was Ten Or Twelve Years Old, And I Started To Do Things That I Thought Would Help Other People.

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.

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.