23 August 2016
4 hours

- ‘Non-violence and the Indian Crisis’
Peace News, weekly periodical. Author: Mohandas Gandhi. Date: May 3, 1946. Format: A2, 6 pages. Page 3, 4 columns.
Article in which Gandhi starts out with a short description of some of his principles and ends with some comments on domestic Indian politics.
‘Non-violence in the sense of non-killing doesn’t appeal to me […] and therefore it doesn’t seem to be any improvement on the technique of violence. It means slow torture, and when slowness becomes ineffective, we shall immediately revert to killing and to the atom bomb, which is the last word in violence today. […] Some philosophers of action in India improve upon the model [of killing enemies] and say: “We shall never kill our enemy but we shall destroy his property.” Perhaps I do them injustice when I call it “his property” for the so-called enemy has brought no property of his own and what little he has brought he makes us pay for. Therefore, what we destroy is really our own. Yet for the destruction too we have to pay, and it is the poor who are made to pay. That is the implication of the punitive tax and all it carries it with it.’

- ‘Impression of Norway.
Peace News, weekly periodical. Author: David Wills. Date: December 6, 1946. Format: A2, 6 pages. Page 3, 2 columns.
Article on WWII resistance in Norway. Wills sets the scene with a conversation with an ‘ordinary businessman’ who had taken part in the resistance and who now takes a surprisingly moderate stance on collaborators and war criminals. The origin of his non vengeful stance: ‘Many Norwegians are very near to being pacifists without realizing it. […] Norwegian resistance differed in many ways from that in other countries. For example, it was not a resistance group. It was not something which people joined. It was an attitude which everybody was assumed to have, when he were not an avowed supporter of quislings. Thus, if a Nazi victim were in a tight corner with the Gestapo close at his heels, he would run into the first house he came to, confident that he would receive help and protection from perfect strangers.’ The people of Norway resisted openly and mostly in nonviolent ways. ‘This was perhaps not the non-resistance to evil and its overcoming with good, but it was perhaps the biggest step toward it, ever taken by a whole nation.’

- ‘Norway Despite the Nazi’s: a People who loved Peace’
Peace News, weekly periodical. Author: F.A.L. Date: December 13, 1946. Format: A2, 6 pages. Page 4, 1 column.
Book review of Norway Despite the Nazi’s: a People Who Loved Peace (Gollantsz, 1946) by Roy Walker.
‘For the Norwegian resistance was Christian in a peculiar sense. It was initiated and led by the Norwegian Church, and was directed with fine discrimination, not against the occupying power as such, but against the anti-Christian measures of the occupying power.’ Therefore the resistance was not ‘nationalistic in a vulgar sense’ and it was mainly nonviolent in nature.

Articles still to be checked out:

- ‘Pacifism Under Occupation’
Peace News, weekly periodical. Author: Else Zeuthen. Date: January 3, 1947. Format: A2, 6 pages. Page 3, 3 columns.

- ‘Sabotage and non-violence’  
Peace News, weekly periodical. Author: Else Zeuthen. Date: March 14, 1947. Format: A2, 6 pages. 

- ‘Gandhi and Non-Violence’
Peace News, weekly periodical. Author: George Davies. Date: October 24, 1947. Format: A2, 8 pages.

- ‘I Stayed with Gandhi’
Peace News, weekly periodical. Author: Margaret Jones. Date: December 19, 1947. Format: A2, 8 pages. 

- ‘Will Gandhi’s Methods be Forgotten?’
Peace News, weekly periodical. Author: Ranjan San. Date: February 13, 1948. Format: A2, 8 pages. 

- ‘My Last Interview with Gandhi’
Peace News, weekly periodical. Author: Ranjan San. Date: March 12, 1948. Format: A2, 8 pages. 

- ‘Gandhi and Education I: The project’
Peace News, weekly periodical. Author: Heartland. Date: July 2, 1948. Format: A2, 8 pages. 

- ‘Gandhi and Education II: Curriculum’
Peace News, weekly periodical. Author: Heartland. Date: July 9, 1948. Format: A2, 8 pages. 

- ‘Gandhi and Education III: Crucible’
Peace News, weekly periodical. Author: Heartland. Date: July 16, 1948. Format: A2, 8 pages. 

- ‘Tolstoy Showed the Way
Peace News, weekly periodical. L. Perno. Date: August 6, 1948. Format: A2, 8 pages. 

- ‘The Non-Violent Society I: Sevagram Laboratory’
Peace News, weekly periodical. Hallon Tennyson. Date: November 5, 1948. Format: A2, 8 pages. 

- ‘The Non-Violent Society II: The Indian Theory’
Peace News, weekly periodical. Hallon Tennyson. Date: November 12, 1948. Format: A2, 8 pages. 

- ‘The Non-Violent Society III: India and the West’
Peace News, weekly periodical. Hallon Tennyson. Date: November 19, 1948. Format: A2, 8 pages. 

- ‘Pacifism in Occupied Norway’
Peace News, weekly periodical. Diderich Lund. Date: January 14, 1949. Format: A2, 8 pages. 

- ‘Pacifism in Denmark II: Nazism Throve on Violent Resistance’
Peace News, weekly periodical. Hagbard Jonassen. Date: June 17, 1949. Format: A2, 8 pages. 

- ‘The Farce of Civil Defence’: The Most Futile Campaign Ever Launched’
Peace News, weekly periodical. No author. Date: October28, 1949. Format: A2, 8 pages. Front page, 4 columns