Abstract

Looking for the Marchers

According to the author, when he left the United States in the summer of 1964 to become the first American editor of Peace News in London, England, the great question among his friends and colleagues was related to American peace movement. It was a question accompanied by that kind of morose, self-defensive soul-searching, which never seems to yield satisfactory answers. For those who were part of it, the American peace scene for the years 1963-64, during that paralytic lull following the partial test-ban treaty and preceding the recent, turbulent rise of the "New Left," was rapidly suffocating in pessimism and dismal introspection. But in England there could be no doubt about the matter. The British peace movement has been gifted and cursed with a peculiar institution that has no counterpart in the United States: the British Labour Party. According to a student of Gandhi's philosophy and techniques emphasizes on activities that could provide the bridge across which the peace movement might travel toward its goal of international conciliation.