Sadler Story, The

Synopsis: Jack Sadler was born in 1887 and died in 1960. During that time, the Tyneside pacifist lived through two World Wars, and refused to fight in either of them. His principled stand led to his imprisonment as a conscientious objector, in 1916, and again in the 1939-45 war. Between those periods, Jack Sadler helped organise a number of pacifist initiatives on Tyneside, as the world moved rapidly from a shaky armistice in 1918 to a period of hope through the League of Nations, to localised and eventually world war.

This programme chronicles the life of Jack Sadler, and the peace movement to which he devoted his life, through his daughter Dorothy, who joined her father in opposing all forms of war in the 1930s, as Hitler began his conquest of Europe. Jack Sadler’s legacy was a pacifism that held out socialism as the hope of the world, and preached Christianity that was bitterly opposed to the Church establishment, a pacifism that is still very much alive.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 1986
Year of production: 1985
Subjects: History; Philosophy
Keywords: biographies; conscientious objectors; peace movements; pacifism; Sadler, Jack

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