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pressuze-io become ever more seriously impleared~anJ inveivec in our government's “pocifcacion” program If Friends feel cho: at is imporian: for us to siay and min- ister to the sufierings of our brovhers in South Viera, ther surely is is essentic! chat we minisier 10 persons of all backgrounds and beliefs who suter there, including the miilons of people living in creas controlled by the NLF. When one reads of an appex! by General William Westmoreland (November 22, 1935) on behalf of Quaker relief in South Vietnam, one readily sees how important it is for all concerned that Friends, Friends’ agencies and _ Friends’ programs make clear by their actions that Quak- sers serve a different Commanding Officer. ® Third, again at Bratislava I was reminded of how theap words are—how easily we Americans intellectualize, ghe war and ignore our real responsibilities for ending it. Talking with the Vietnamese, one could not help but be struck by the contras: between the total commitment! of their lives and the shallowness that has typified so much of our own protest. “I'm prepared to suffer chrough the war in Viemam if that will bring people to a realiza- tion of the futility of war,” remarked one Friend recently, © urging his Yearly Meeting no: to act lawlessly by extend- - ing relief to al! parts of Vietnam. Yer surely we foo] no one but ourselves if we think we can successfully adopt Such 2 detached and unfeeling posture toward the human attagedy of Vietnam and still survive the war as Friends. Ros Flenagun of Nerkeley (Cail) Meciing, a sojouming mem- ber of New York Monilily Meeting, is project seere:ary of New York Yearly Mecting’s experimental Project on Comraunity Confict. He fas been assisting meetings concerned ro extend Quaker relief io all parts Of Vicinam. :