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Pacifists used the W. P. C. hearings as a national forum to broadcast their views. Chairman Hurley was a bit impatient with their long-winded arguments to the effect that the only way to wipe out war profits was to wipe out war. The Commission's emphasis on war rather than peace plans moved Mercer Johnston, director of the People's Legislative Service, to call it "little better than a warmongering Commission."