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( ~2i- ‘ ) ~ _ 'The Socicty of Friends has a great traditicn of spiritual insiger ne service to humanity; but the Sditor and many others are ceeply disturbed at tic extent to which anti-American and pro-Sovict propaganda has catered into ceriain u : : , 2G0tans Wh of its activities. This is also true of a great body of American Chr 1 fa es fo aq PF as ° 3 7 ¢ i” rel o s are equally disturbed at similar activities within many of their soc This one incident cf many is pin-pointed in the hope that Christians everywhere fete ot ange Aw aR eA =a & 4 baie sadnhy Ose pants allow & Go will assert themselves and resain control promoting the Communist line." Inthe London FRIEND, August 14, 1653, we read sf a conference o . held in Berlin during the preceding month, Three friends from the Sevvice Cacami- ttee were present, Among cther things, the writer of the report saidof the c ferees, “They knew that they had much to learn from Communists." There is no reed witha €225 4 indication that the three Friends from the Service Ccinmittee disay statement. The Service Committee clzims to uphold the well-cnown Quaker principte of striving to reach unity and d not coercing the minority; but it nevertheless procececs with a policy which it knows is abhorent to a large bocy of Driends, and it con- A vor tinually advocates more and more government action which means more 2a coercion for larger numbers of our people. Is it not illogical to say that ene should Te, not obey the military laws and repulations d one's country but, at the same ti: 5 ¥ tr) advocate increasing the power o7 government to regulate and control the lives o ae | ee a our people in civilian relationships? ‘Ye cannot go on increasing the cost of aov ment and enlarging the power and functions thereof without eventually bringing upon ourselves a totalitarian type of control to which we would have to be sub- Servient if wa wished to preserve our lives. The chief spokesmen of the Service Commitiee have been urging the recogni- tien of Red China md her admissionto U, N. This appears again and asain en 2h Lae re athens Sry nan ad Se a . ERE hae ee ee ee ete i ante