Well, I didn't say that everyone in the 1930s was a pacifist. Obviously plenty of people weren't. Wikipedia on 1930s pacifism: The British Labour Party had a s

Well, I didn't say that everyone in the 1930s was a pacifist. Obviously plenty of people weren't. Wikipedia on 1930s pacifism: The British Labour Party had a strong pacifist wing in the early 1930s and between 1931 and 1935 was led by George Lansbury, a Christian pacifist who later chaired the No More War Movement and was president of the PPU. The 1933 annual conference resolved unanimously to "pledge itself to take no part in war". "Labour's official position, however, although based on the aspiration towards a world socialist commonwealth and the outlawing of war, did not imply a renunciation of force under all circumstances, but rather support for the ill-defined concept of 'collective security' under the League of Nations.