Blessed are the peacemakers
Christian CND protesters take part in a vigil of prayer for peace in Vietnam, 1970 on the steps of St Martin-in-the-Fields, London
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On 8 May 1936, four young people met in London and started a society aimed at “resistance to modern warfare on grounds of traditional morality”.
They were alarmed at the build-up of international tension, at rearmament proposals, Hitler’s occupation of the Rhineland and Italy’s invasion of Abyssinia. They named the new group “Pax” and called themselves pacifists, believing that modern methods of warfare, particularly indiscriminate air attacks on civilians, were incompatible with the conditions for a just war.
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