Despite its founder's pacifist and anti-semitic sentiments, the Ford Motor Company was pressed into producing engines for fighter planes and anti-submarine boats once the US entered the war in 1917.
This ran enormously against Einstein's own pacifist inclinations, though the possibility of the Nazis acquiring such a weapon before the US had forced him into warning the government of the dangers of this occurring.
But the press – then, as now, largely owned by wealthy supporters of the Conservative party – portrayed it as deliberate disrespect for the nation's war dead from the pacifist Foot.
You end up sort of coming back to a weirdly pacifist platform, which is not, I don't think that's actually the ideology of the people that are making that point.