'When I realised that war made people around me feel hatred for their kinsmen (by which I mean mankind). People say they wish for peace, but are quite prepared to put a man against a wall and murder him in cold blood, which I cannot believe to be Christian or human. I signed a Peace Pledge after reading an article by Dick Sheppard in the "News Chronicle", and called the meeting which formed the local PPU group, but had nothing more to do with it than that.' "I was brought up in a Quaker atmosphere; my parents were not Quakers, but were inclined towards Quakerism and had many Quaker friends. I first gave vent to Pacifist views at 14. I signed a Peace Pledge after reading an article by Dick Sheppard in the "News Chronicle", and called the meeting which formed the local PPU group, but had nothing more to do with it than that."