with the release of the new adaptation of #AllQuietOnTheWesternFront, it's a good time to remember the controversy and backlash toward #LewAyres (who starred the first in 1930) due to his pacifistic views and his status as conscientious objector

https://www.historynet.com/good-conscientious-objector-lew-aryres/

The “Good” Conscientious Objector Lew Ayres

For Hollywood movie star Lew Ayres, standing on pacifistic principles during wartime proved to be its own kind of fight

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