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( -37- {J} . -— Another leaflet ina Service Committee "Peace Packet! isa sharp venomous attack on President So ngman Rhee of South Korea, It accuses him of brutality, corruption, inefficiency and claims that "his + aya roatatet at t- a Seatet ot raeee et ar tavern SG WOT wothea hae avraw bream tl Bev hae nmmcne —— amor ng Lac WODst cic dhas ever Kkrown''. an Another leaflet ina Service Committee ''Peace Packet" attacks President Eisenhower for widening the war inthe Far East, This same leaflet condemns the Chinese Govenment on Formosa and lauds Communis China, : These leaflets show a common polic y of str ong approval for the Communist regimes in China, North Kore vn a Gautemala and strike out viciously against air government, or anyone in it, “who has in any wey opposed them. , Wedo not believe that the responsible people in the Service Committee approve of such pr opoga nda but yet it goes on, not only in phots name but.in the name of whole Society ot Friends as well, Although Fric take the position that the rights of conscience are supreme, this pe cision is nullified when A. F,.S,.C. intentionally, or otherwise, speaks for Friends. The regular procedures, long established in the Religious Society of Friencs, do not control the policies of AL F,S.C, Running through the literature’ sent at by A,FLS.C. is the oft re- peated theme that our country is inthe worng. If our country did not afford freedom to its citizens, A. F.S,C. would not be in existence. Little is said about the great good America does or the attempt our government has usually made to be fair and just in its international dealings. What is the remedy? A re-examination and re-orientation of the policy: and pojects of the A.F.5.C, onthe basis of: 1, What Monthly Mcetings believe it should do 2. How its activities can best be carried on to conform with the basic concept of worthiness and responsibility of the individual member to decide the course of his own conscience 3. How its activities can be channeled into these areas which will ppealas an atlet for personal service by members of the Religious acti ‘ STATEMIENT by the tate C. MARSHALL TAYLOR In spite of the fact that we call our Society the Religious Socicty of Friends, the activities, both direct and indirect, fostered by the Service Committee have diverted our members from the pursuit of religious xtivities and supplanted them with purely social aims, The greatest charge that can be placed against the Service Committee ic that in the public's cye “it is the Society of Friends and can speak for it, | id te s ambizu- and no real attempt seems to be made by the Committee to avo ity. By such action, the Committee is ; guilty of one of the olde crime: public deception. One of the favorite methods used by the Committee to do. fist the opposite is that pursued by the various institutes, held under its auspices ORR he ee ee ee eee