ABSTRACT
The Anglican Pacifist fellowship asked Murry to resign, and two or three Nonconformist officers of P.P.U. resigned themselves. They thought him no fit representative of Christian Pacifism – and perhaps, though for other reasons than theirs, they were right. Murry was opposed to such a procedure on principle. The P.P.U., he insisted, could only be ‘a catholic fraternity of constructive peacemakers’, active in whatever varied directions their talents and opportunities pointed, united simply as one body with many members; and overriding duty of its leaders was to ‘tender whole’. To propagate total unilateral disarmament and non-violent resistance to invader was, Murry held, in war-time both futile and immoral. It was merely to invite suppression – and he, for one, was no more eager for public than domestic martyrdom. So far as foreign policy went, all that Murry had done was to dismiss unilateral disarmament (which, like most people, Pacifist or otherwise, he could never dissociate from conscientious objection) as chimerical.
