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		<title>Roosevelt, Eleanor -- Column (1942-08), &#8220;If You Ask Me,&#8221; Ladies&#8217; Home Journal, Vol. 59</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you think our boys who have gone to war and risked their lives should treat conscientious objectors after the war? I should think that the boys who go through the war, and who believe in what they are doing, would have a respect for a conscientious objector who had an equally strong belief [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>How do you think our boys who have gone to war and risked their lives should treat conscientious objectors after the war?</em></p>
<p><span class="tab">I should think that the boys who go through the war, and who believe in what they are doing, would have a respect for a conscientious objector who had an equally strong belief that he should not kill other people.<br />
<span class="tab">We have put these conscientious objectors to work in this war. They are clamoring for more dangerous work. Some of them are already doing work which requires great courage, but not the taking of another man&#8217;s life. It would certainly seem a curious thing to me if a boy were not able to understand, having had deep convictions himself, that other people have a right to equally deep convictions and that they should be respected.</span></span></p>
<br><b>Eleanor Roosevelt</b> (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist<br>Column (1942-08), &#8220;If You Ask Me,&#8221; <i>Ladies&#8217; Home Journal</i>, Vol. 59 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Ladies_Home_Journal/yPsfAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22boys%20who%20go%20through%20the%20war%22" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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(<a href="https://www2.gwu.edu/~erpapers/iyam/iyam_1942_08.cfm#:~:text=How%20do%20you,should%20be%20respected.">Source (Alternate)</a>)

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		<title>Brecht, Bertholt -- &#8220;General, Your Tank Is a Powerful Vehicle,&#8221; in &#8220;From a German War Primer,&#8221; The Svendborg Poems (1939) [tr. Baxandall]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>General, your tank<br />
is a powerful vehicle<br />
it smashes down forests<br />
and crushes a hundred men.<br />
but it has one defect:<br />
it needs a driver.</p>
<br><b>Bertolt Brecht</b> (1898–1956) German poet, playwright, director, dramaturgist<br>&#8220;General, Your Tank Is a Powerful Vehicle,&#8221; in &#8220;From a German War Primer,&#8221; <i>The Svendborg Poems</i> (1939) [tr. Baxandall] 
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		<title>Kennedy, John F. -- Letter to a Navy friend (1945)</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. Letter to a past PT-boat crew mate, responding to a question about his experiences at the United Nations founding in San Francisco (Jun 1945). Quoted in Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., A Thousand Days: John [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.</p>
<br><b>John F. Kennedy</b> (1917–1963) American politician, author, journalist, US President (1961–63)<br>Letter to a Navy friend (1945) 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://archive.org/details/thousanddaysjohn1967schl/page/88/mode/2up?q=%22conscientious+objector+enjoys%22&view=theater" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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Letter to a past PT-boat crew mate, responding to a question about his experiences at the United Nations founding in San Francisco (Jun 1945). Quoted in Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., <em>A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House</em>, ch. 4, sec. 4 (1965).



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