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Thinking Caleb though he has not written in a long time; has just run into Caleb's old mentor A. J. Muste at a conference. Has often thought through war and persecution of the commitment to pacifism he saw in Foote and Russ Freeman, "to the point of wishing that we had met sooner as that I might have been a bit longer exposed to your beliefs and philosophy.... pacifism to me is still the ultimate goal." Currently working with the national office of the NAACP, where they have three delegates at the UN meeting in San Francisco: "One of them returned to New York recently and told us that probably the biggest hurdle in the way of an effective organization for peace is the apparent belief held by G. Britain, France, U.S., Belgium et al. that they must preserve the whiteness of civilization, even at the cost of destroying civilization itself." Still finds himself not able to accept pacifism as an immediate method, "because apparently the only method available to combat Nazism Japanese Fascists is by way of the present means... My experiences in the Army were not exactly exhilarating. The present Army is certainly better organized and led than any we have raised in the past, but our army as all armies seems to be a bulwark of reaction and mental blindness." Difficulties in the service over opposition to segregation leading to his discharge. Asks if there is any hope for the Japanese problem on the west coast and...
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