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Aste $e oe tt Be rv — — one tT Se a | 2 eJenciesn Minky, Oriente! Ssudie: inscructor at thewlins versicy OF Pennss!vatiia. tpeasing on “A Fresi. Appouach to a Negoulited Seidemen: in Vietnam.” said die: we cannot bulld while we are gestroving anc tha. du Vietnamese people with whors he talked last summer feli thai our war is with China but thet we are using thet: counin for demonstration pur- poses. He said Gel as We Continius be atiec) them dein wlll te resist stiflens (just as was the case wich the English wher, the Germens bombed them). and more anc more Vieinamess Lit in line agains: ws. Both sides commit atrocities, he said, ant our idewis continue to erode. For year the German people kept} quict while a whole community was being destroyed; nov a community across the world is also being destrovec. Do we want &O participate in its destruction? Ala genera! session various concerns were brought forward and relerred to several Saturday-aflernoon workshops, the re- sul of which were summed up at the evening session, which was brought to a meaningful close by Dorothy Huichinson of bingion Meeting, Jenkintown, Pa. international chairman f che Women’s Internasional League for Peace and Freedom, ‘hose theme was “Surengthen with Might by His Spirit” The early Christians, she said, were not afraid of power. In a poll of taxi drivers, she reported, she had found mos: of them -agatnst the war. Think of their power, she sugrested: “Taxi Driven Against the War in Vietnam!” (Later we started our own poll on this, but we mus: have picked the exception, for he was suill shouting at us as we escaped to join the vigil) Besides expressing moral judgment on war, Dorothy Hutch. ‘nson, Teminded ws, we must have al) the facts: the Geneva ~aceords, this as a civil war, what the real story of the commit men are, and why containmen: of communism is nor only ‘nefiectual but inadvisable. To pray and then to feel relieved of responsibiliry, she said, can lead to nothing bein dea thin. ine done br alata ? the individual. Prayer should increase sensitiviry, and the action following it is a required release. A deep silence followed her Tk. Chairmen of the various conference sessions included Stew- t Meacham of the American Friends Service Committee, Lyle atum of the Friends Peace Commitee, George Corwin _of een eteth Friends Generz! Confererme Georges Sawyer of Friends U1 Meeting, and Edward Snyder of cht Friends Committe National Legislation. ; During the business sessions and after intensive discu of the workshop reports, the conference concurred in a the Friends Coordinating Gommitice on Peace to send for to Friends’ bodies a concern endorsed by New York ¥ Meetings Representative Committee “that every possible de explored to secure unrestricted passage of relief wo and material to the embauled people of bow. Nori and § Vietnam.” The committee was also asked to prepare a bul urging Friends two consider bow paying taxes anc buying bonds involved them in Gnancang the military. - A minute was approved asking Friends to assist pol candidates with “peaceoriented” platforms, with the F giving guidance by drawing up a “peace platform for 1 and a bibliography on how to organize political acuon. Intense concern with an enlightened Ching policy bro approval of a greatly expanded political and educational ¢ “based on the present ones of the AFSC and the FCNL, would reach al] Monthly Meetings in the United Stat conference, vigil, or public witness in the fall of 1956 (po: U.N.) is envisioned? :