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" "A QUAKER ACTION GROUP In connection with the sending of aid to North. Wetnam, the "Friends Journal," dated August 1, 1967, on page 420, carried an article captioned "Vietnam Relief: Some Of ficial - Moves,” which states as follows: “Philadelphia Yearly Meeting is reported to have collected $8,000 from its membership since its decision on March 29 to forward gifts for humani- tarian relief to all parts of Vietnam. FRANCIS G. “\ BROWN, general secretary of the Yearly Meeting, —_ acted as courier in transmitting the funds to the Canadian Friends Service Committee in Toronto. Since January the CFSC reportedly has received $60,600 for medical aid to Vietnam — more than half of it from U. S. citizens. "Washington (D.C.) Meeting, aided by the American Civil Liberties Union, is bringing suit against the U. S. Treasury Department for refusing to grant it a jicense to send medical aid to all parts of Vietnam, "Church World Service's Department of Overseas Ministry has recommended that its parent body, the National Council of Churches, provide relief for civilian war casualties in North Vietnam in -addition to the substantial relief it has been sending to South Vietnam. “Caritas Internationalis, Roman Catholic Relief — organization, is studying plans for building a . hospital in North Vietnam with funds raised around “°° ‘the world. ‘We feel it is our obligation,‘ says a spokesman for Pope Paul VI, ‘to relieve the suffering of those residing in North Vietnam as well as those residing in South Vietnam.'" This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI, It is the property of the FBI and is leaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency. "3