Everymans Struggle For Peace

by Horace Alexander

Overview

Unless we find a way of preventing the outbreak of another war, there is imminent danger of this civilization being wiped out of existence. For we now know but too well that man's inhumanity to man can be devastatingly savage. Total war means total destruction; and we are entering a period in history when every war is likely to become a total war.

In these days of alarming talk about rearmament and military preparations everywhere it is urgent that men mobilize not for war but for peace. For, what we need is a veritable revolution to change this world of armed nations to a cooperative community of responsible people. Such revolution begins with individuals. Horace Alexander, internationally known as a leading member of the Society of Friends, is a convinced advocate of the way of peace. As a trusted fellow-worker of Mahatma Gandhi, Mr. Alexander has been actively associated with many projects for national reconstruction in New India.

In this pamphlet he seeks to awaken the conscience of men of true devotion to truth and righteousness to work courageously with "reckless abandon to liberate all men from fear and hate, from oppression and war."

Product Details

BN ID:	2940158732737
Publisher:	Pendle Hill Publications
Publication date:	08/08/2017
Series:	Pendle Hill Pamphlets , #74
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	136 KB

About the Author

Horace Gundry Alexander (1889–1989) was a British Quaker teacher and writer, pacifist and ornithologist. He was the youngest of four sons of Joseph Gundry Alexander (1848–1918), two other sons being the ornithologists Wilfred Backhouse Alexander and Christopher James Alexander (1887–1917). He was a friend of Mahatma Gandhi.

Horace was born at Croydon, England. His father Joseph Gundry Alexander was an eminent lawyer who had worked to suppress the opium trade between India and China. His mother was Josephine Crosfield Alexander. His early schooling was at Bootham School in York, after which he studied at King’s College, Cambridge, where he graduated in history in 1912. In 1914 the First World War broke out, and he served as secretary on various anti-war committees. In 1916, as a conscientious objector, he was exempted from combatant military service.

He joined the staff of Woodbrooke, a Quaker college in Birmingham, teaching international relations, especially in relation to the League of Nations, from 1919 to 1944. Alexander joined a section of the World War II Friends Ambulance Unit and went to parts of India threatened by Japan. In 1958 he married Rebecca Bradbeer, an American Quaker. After ten years they moved to Pennsylvania, United States, where he spent the remaining twenty years of his life.

Adapted from Wikipedia, 2014