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.

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

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.