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Change of address to Quartermaster School, 2nd QM Regiment, where he is in Officers Candidate School. "For the first time since the date of my induction I don't feel mentally overpowered and weary. One's mind begins to work anew here." Treatment of Japanese American citizens "has alarmed me no end... A world kept in its place by the might of the Anglo-American arms may well be no better than one under the heel of a Fascist or Japanese war lord. But the peoples of Britain and the United States are not, even in the midst of feverish and hasty eleventh hour preparations, intoxicated with the idea of war and world conquest." Does not feel he has abandoned his pacifism, but he is not a total pacifist. "Now, however, from my reactions immediately prior to and after Pearl Harbor, I see that I was never morally and completely convinced that pacifism was the way out... For to me a Hitler or Japanese victory takes on nightmarish proportions... One cannot effectively combat bombings and armored conquest with protestations of peaceful intent."
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- Conscientious Objectors
- Pacifism
- Pacifists
- Racism
- Segregation
- United States
- United States. Army Air Corps
- World War, 1939 1945