ABSTRACT
In Britain the Peace Pledge Union founded by Dick Sheppard, rather than the older F.o.R. with its predominantly Christian creed, symbolized, for a few years, the practice of individual war resistance based on conscience which had gathered objectors all over Europe and America into the War Resisters’ International. The technique of the peace and pacifist movements over half a century roughly kept pace with the developing challenges. In spite of the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the American Crusade for a Sane Nuclear Policy, and their international equivalents directed against nuclear weapons, the answer to war lay, as it had always lain, in the power of the spirit. The pacifist’s task is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war. Such recent institutions as Eirene, Service Civil, and the American Peace Corps point the way to a society based upon compassion which could supersede the long domination of hatred, violence and greed.
