e, degrading to humanity, endangering civilization and bringing forth in its travail a hideous brood of strife, conflict and war, more war?"5
             The utilitarianist approach to pacifism also carried much weight in interwar Britain. This approach was both inviting and successful due to the economic downturn that had begotten British society at this time. Utilitarianists wanted to end war, not because of the bloodshed, but because of more economic factors. They believed that the cost of waging a modern war was more than what was gained, assuming that a nation was even victorious. They believed that the money spent on wars would be better allocated to help the country domestically. Some utilitarianists even went so far as to suggest that weapons producers encouraged some wars in order to gain a profit.6
             Many find it surprising that some pacifists, whom are against all types of warfare, actually support things like police agencies and the death penalty. The reason this is possible is that they believe that, "nation states, by civilizing their domestic behaviour, have earned the right to employ (force) as a punishment of last resort."7
             During the interwar period, the main pacifist group was the Peace Pledge Union. It was founded when Canon Sheppard wrote a "letter which Canon 'Dick' Sheppard sent to the press in October 1934 asking for the names of those ready to sign a declaration renouncing war and expressing their determination not to support another conflict."8 Sheppard received so many responses that he began the PPU in 1936. This organization appealed to many people for a number of reasons. First of all, it was new. Many pacifists were tired of old groups that seemed to becoming stagnant. Also, these groups had a lot of internal, political conflict among their leaders. The PPU's cohesiveness can be attributed to the fact that "they (the groups leaders) shared his (Sheppar...