The Real Heroes Are the War Resisters

Like Archibald Baxter (1881-1970), a New Zealand pacifist who refused to fight in World War I on the grounds that “all war is wrong, futile, and destructive alike to victor and vanquished.” For his disobedience he was arrested, imprisoned, beaten, starved, and tortured. He eldest son was also imprisoned for refusing to fight in World War II. Baxter’s account of his treatment by the New Zealand government was published in 1939 as We Will Not Cease. I was recently made aware that the book is online here.

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12:06 pm on April 9, 2014