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SAYS HE WON'T GO TO WAR

Editor Upholds Non-Resistance at Liberal Club

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That passive resistance would prove more effective than armed resistance was the burden of a talk at the Liberal Club yesterday by Mr. Stanley High, an editor of the Christian Science Monitor.

Invaders would not know how to cope with a people who refused to fight, he said. But he upheld the economic boycott as a legitimate method of coercion:

Mr. High, approving the action of the student pacifists at Indianapolis, said that he himself would refuse to go to war. If enough people could be induced to bind themselves together for the same ideal, he said, war would be made absurdly impossible.

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