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PACIFISTS PUNISHED

DEFIANCE OF AUTHORITY “NARROW INTERPRETATION” (By Telegraph —Press Association) AUCKLAND. Thusday Two Christian Pacifists, John Whitely Boal, aged 28, a carpenter, and Harold Roy Bray, aged 22, accountant, were sentenced by Mr Justice Fair in the Supreme Court today to ten months’ imprisonment with hard labour. The judge said that by law they were entitled to hold what beliefs they wished, but the Executive of the Government had decided it was against the public interest publicly to advocate pacifism and non-resist-ance. and that such advocacy must be prohibited. Surely it was the height of intellectual arrogance to set individual opinion on practical matters against the opinions of maturer and more experienced men and the mass of people. There was a mass of Christian opinion interpreting the Gospel which v*:is opposed to the narrow interpretation by pacifists.

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Waikato Times, Volume 130, Issue 21652, 12 February 1942, Page 6

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PACIFISTS PUNISHED Waikato Times, Volume 130, Issue 21652, 12 February 1942, Page 6

PACIFISTS PUNISHED Waikato Times, Volume 130, Issue 21652, 12 February 1942, Page 6