PACIFISTS ARE GRANTED U. S. CITIZENSHIP
PACIFISTS ARE GRANTED U. S. CITIZENSHIP Appellate Court Reverses District Court in New Ruling Giving Rights NEW YORK—Reversal of the decisions by New York and Connecticut District Courts which...
...Judge Manton declared that Madame Schwimmer was an "absolute atheist" and "an uncompromising pacifist" and was found to have no sense of nationality...
...England...
...She stated she was an absolute atheist and said: 'I am not willing to bear arms, but she wa;i willing to do everything that an American citizen must do except fight...
...She served with tb»TUnerican forces during the World war as a nurse...
...The Persons Involved The Rev...
...that the appellant stated that he was ready to give to the United States in return for citizenship, all the allegiance he had ever given or could give to any country, but that he could not put allegiance for the government of any country before allegiance to the will of Gcd...
...It strongly lies in the desire to maintain peace and abolish war...
...This applicant was willing to bear arms and reserve merely the right to determine for himself only whether the war was justified according to the dictates ol his conscience...
...Miss Bland, also a Canadian citizen, said that her conscience as a Christian would not permit her to swear to bear arms," although she was willing to go to the front lines if necessary to nurse wounded soldiers...
...Macintosh, a World war chaplain with the Canadian army and later with the Y. M. C. A. with the American troops, was denied naturalization in June, 1929, by John R. Davis, naturalization examiner, an opinion upheld by District Judge Warren B. Burrows...
...He maintained that he could not premise to bear arms unless he felt the cause to be just...
...In his opinion reversing the decision of the lower courts Judge Martin T. Manton said that it did not affect the case of Rosika Schwimmer who had also besn denied citizenship...
...Douglas Clyde Macintosh, professor of theology at the Yale Divinity School, and Miss Marie Averil Bland, a Canadian war nurse...
...Macintosh was a Canadian citizen...
...There is a distinction between the morally justified and an unjustifiable war as recognized in international law...
...Schwimmer said she was an uncompromising pacifist and was found to have no sense of nationalism, but only a cosmic sense of belonging to the human family and opposed the use of military forces as admitted by the Constitution and by the laws, she had 'no nationalistic feeling.' "The appellant, on the other hand, was willing fo give thp United States 'all the allegiance he ever had given or could glvo to any country' but said that he would not put allegianre to the "rnment of any country before his •glance to the will of God.' This appellant, from his answers, indicates his willingness to be a citizen of the United States, assuming' the responsibilities and obligations of its form of government, and al the same time he has a luah regard for his general duty to humanity He wishes to k*cp pure his religious tples...
...A citizen sharing views which amount to conscientious or religious scruples against bearing arms in what he regards as an unjustifiable war Is skin to one having conscientious scruples against all wars...
...Judge Manton's decision said: "It appear...
...PACIFISTS ARE GRANTED U. S. CITIZENSHIP Appellate Court Reverses District Court in New Ruling Giving Rights NEW YORK—Reversal of the decisions by New York and Connecticut District Courts which b.ad d?nied two applicants for citizenship on the grounds of their pacifist views was ordered thte week by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals...
...The two applicants who have obtained this reversal of the lower courts are the Rev...
...Edward N. Eland, an Episcopal clergyman of Lincolnshire...
...Recognition was given to such distinctions in the recent Kellogg pact...
...United Slates...
...She is the daughter of the Rev...
...Religious Scrupl?s "The question presented lyre differs from that presented in the case of Schwimmer vs...
Vol. 1 • July 1930 • No. 32
