In an era where anti-German and anti-Jewish sentiments often went together, many British Jews feared that opposition to World War I would lead to accusations of disloyalty. He was not charged under the
Defence of the Realm Act 1914 although his son Hugh Harris, also a pacifist and
conscientious objector, was jailed for refusing
conscription. Harris abandoned Pacifism during
World War II, writing that "the cry of the tortured and persecuted victims of the Nazis has been too bitter to deny them what appears to be the only solution of their sufferings and the only alternative to their extermination." == References ==