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said, "on which; unarmed ourselves, we suffer in brutal concentration camps. can hold ourselves against armed force. When the Nazies invaded Denmark the If suffering must be necessary, suffer with Danes instead of meeting armed might dignity." This advice was obeyed throu- with armed resistance, offered non-violent ghout Hungary till the Emperor finally resistance. They did what was consistent capitulated and gave Hungary her consti- with human dignity and the Germans did tution on Feb. 18, 1867.
not dare lay rough hands on them. The
result was that loss and damage in DenAnother outstanding example of the
mark was negligible and her recovery application of non-violence has been
became much easier than in other occuquoted by Prof. Tan Yun San in 'Lord
pied countries. Mahaveer Memorial Granth' (Agra). In
Heinz Kraschutzki, German delegate ancient China Lao Tsu, Confucious Men
to the World Pacifist Conference in India, cious and Mo Tsu preached the gospel of
related before the session of the Connon-violence or Jen as they called it. Mo
ference an account of the defeat of Tse lived a little later than Lao Tsu and
General Kapp's attempt in 1920 to seize Confucius but earlier than Men Cius. He
the German Government, by military was born about 500 B. C. Mo Tsu prea
force. A complete general strike had ched the gospel of non-violence and
paralysed this military invasion. Krasopposed not only by words but also by
chutzki held that freedom from fear is the action. Having heard of the news that
most important requisite for a peacethe Chin State was to attack the Sung State he immediately went from his native
Havelock Ellis in his 'Impressions and State Lu, walked for ten days and ten
Comments' records an incident of nights on foot to see the king of Chin.
January 9, 1915. "French and German When he reached there he persuaded him
soldiers who had fraternized between the to stop the aggression and he succeeded in
trenches at Christmas subsequently rehis efforts.
fused to fire on one another and had to In the West though there is no memo- be removed and replaced by another rable achievement of the change of heart, men." He says that amid the vast stream yet there are some remarkable examples of war-news which then flowed all over of the application of this principle, the newspapers he chanced to find that Hoares Alexander gives a little known little paragraph in a corner of a halt-penny example about the heroic resistance of evening journal. This most important Finnish people to the policy of "Russifi- item of news how clearly shows that the cation" by the Tsars of Russia at the be- end of fighting might be reached. If we ginning of this century. We also know might be able to bring men together as about the heroic actions of the Norwegian human beings, they will be prepared to teachers during the German occupation violate all the abstract principles of war of Norway, how they refused to teach the and Patriotism, to break any rule of disNazi and Fascist doctrines to the school. cipline, rather than kill one another. If children, though for that they had to persons whose hatred of each other had
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