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- 3 4 - {. It is self-directin Tt has a "Head Office." $ 2 “policy, It asst esa paternalistic rale i Soc icty of Friends in the United State . ds finds it easy _to speak for the Society of riends and to overlook the views of the minority groups and individuals within the Socicty. oy g. ro nit Y = et Being one of those who shares some résvonsibility for the Present position of the American Friends Service Commit- tee, it is my feeling that time should be taken carefully to appraise its present activities. STATEMENT BY J. KENNEDY SINCLAIRE (Abbreviated) lL A mighty change appears to have taken place in the work of the ALF.LS.C, Conceived as a means for expressing -h 5 L ~ o oF Foe#th th ot lo &® ba - 1 > ee le ny a er anf aw A onset he ba ee le moh iF “ fe ~ - u o oO o eno YP ° pe pee public conscience, I quote from A,F.S.,C. Annual Report for 1955: "While our activities change from time to time; as any one year's report will indicate, a basic and continusus, tf not easily articulated philosphy runs through the years of our history since the Committee's founding in 1917." "It is the faith that men are made for brotherhood and not for strife; for mutual understanding and respect, not for dislike and suspicion; for wholeness, not for division. It is the confidence that personal and col- lective well-being is dependent only in part upon phy si- cal conditions, The issues of life are out of the he ast." (Page 3) Let us assume that as we read this superficially we can agree with all it says Howe ever, through these words there appears to be a stateme nt of policy emerging concern- ing itself mainly with matters of conscience For examoale, it is supposed that the employees of A, F.S, Cc, are better judges than others of causes of strife, misunders tanding, Suspicion, dislike? Who is to determine when, where and in what degree personal and collective well-being requires a“policy decision and action? What is "collective well- being?" Does it .pertain'to pensions, wages, religious belicts, rents or what? OT ee Let eR inane Ae PINE te aon