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comes a& Communist state, thes... 2, and report on the Viet- rest of Southeast Asia will fal- low ‘ike a row of dominoes’’; and that if the U.S. reneges on its commitment, American prestige will be hurt elsewhere, The booklet concludes in- stead, that victory is impossibie in the face of Viet Cong ‘‘zeal?’; that this a basically a civil war; that the rise of nationalism in Southeast Asia makes the ‘domino theory’ inapnlicable; and that our original commit- ment to Diem’s government was in no sense a pledge of military Bapport, Once negotiations are under~ tcken, the report states, political a&2ttlement must be faced. The booklet lists ten steps in such a settlement, including a super- vised cease- fire, a Geneva- type conference, the phased with- dzawal of American troops, the protection and resettling of re- fugees, and the provision of massive economic assistance. Mirsky and Rickett were members of an eight-man work- ing party appointed by the Ameri- Gan_Friends Service Committss —— Sb, i nam situation Other members of the group are: Bronson Clark, vice president of Gilford In- strument Laboratories, Inc., Oberlin, Ohio; Woodruff Emlen, investment counselor; Dorothy Hutchinson, International Chair man of the Women’s Internation: League for Peach and Freedom George McT. Kahin, Professor of Southeast Asian Studies, Cor- nell University; A.J. Muste, ex-. ecutive secretary emeritus ol the Fellowship of Reconciliation; and Clarence Yarrow, = In- ternational Affairs Division sec- retary of the American Friends Service Committee, Non-Profit Writing Mirsky described the speed and coordinatidn with which the pamphlet Was put together. The committee started writing in mid-November and completed it in January ‘‘with no hageling’’. “This is a great example,’’ he said, *‘of how the Quakers make people suppress their egos.’* Mirsky also noted tha-~an. of the writing was nom nint 7 - te Wes COM HCLELy without financial profit. Th:. work” party was not paid to d: the writing, nor will they collect royalties from the writing. — SS RSS pe nelle meen noe et ae eae Sam