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American Friends Service Committee — Part 18
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Omnis said thet all of the men in the party were soci:lists
and Cormunists, and that the entire party including the girls vere all *
pacifists and conscientious objectors, . She said thet a few of the men were
Quakers and that the remzincer had no church affili:tion whatssever. She
stated that these people errued abeut their beliefs and their ost war plons
at great length. ‘She suid that some of the men of the party exsressed recret
that she had attended a southern collere instead of s “nerthern one, 2s then
she would hwve bcen acquainted with their political ideas and sumevhat
indcos trins ted with their seciul viewpoint.
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“Sree said th: t other members of ‘the croup inclueine Se aR
and ea, ror the Philadelynia headruarters, .rguedtwith hep virorcusly
in an atten nt to persuade her to be a pastfist and conscientious sbjector.
She said that beeruse of the eyneriences of ner mother andyfcther, iho were
driven out of shin: by the dins .we the var sichts she horself Had observed
in visits to Pekine y Chins, she «2s decidedly net 2 preifist «nd believed thet
when «sar beeseme n-ecssury it wes ¢essinticl tht the attocked resist the
acpressor. Conseouently she could not weree with the viewroint of the zrcup
and wes told by then thst she vas dislev:l to the erreur, The said that they
teld her that sh. wis buttine her botdoacabnst 4 ston. well in resistin
their ideas, and her relations with the prsup stesdily becam: more streé
' The oth rs clso apeesrcd to rosent, hor «bility to mike friinds with the
slexiern poonle with “hom she cane in contcet. This finvlly recched the
spoint of her beine rucucsted to Liave the nurty and return to the United
States. Two other members of th: m.rty crove hir in «n sutomobile to
Hontorrey, womico, whore shir tocrd:d the tM¥in fer ter.do, O-n ontgrio, and
home, - ’
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ined,
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The activities of hur orcjuct erous, tecorcine to €han
consisted of construction cf houscs by the mon, omi rlcveround .ctivitice
amon? tho sm ll chilir.n by th veren, Th stoted th children sith whom
she work.d were from the better femili:s of the city of Curenyo,
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“fmone the srincins] cont.ets which oth or mrb rs of th vroup
mide in mxico wer with th: Uevernor of the Stat. of currnzo and his st ff,
end she stobed th t the eordi:lity displeved by th “ovirnor -t the b. gine ine
dissppecrcd when he hed hre sp ortunity to observe th. ‘bbitudce of the proun.
This situ: tion wis emborr: sine bieruss th. Governor hed orrenecd for the
house in which the groun wes Livine. Uther cont: ots ashich: pee eraiene a OR Lee Gt
had blon in.de by th: group in “:xico were with one hon Ae rere” ote EES:
in Durango end with LITTER, who she s'id wis born in .«sicu ind uns in
vt
envinicr in busin.ss for his. lf.
ta .
Let!
SPM stoted thet the ttitude of th rroup ars thet of
rtine 2 ay cooperstion betuean “ oxleo ond th. United of tes in the
prosic eution of th. wir, “h sid thot the sroun opposed cctucl porticir:tion
in the wor . by Ather United Tt:-t s or “evdeo. Tho Licders of the rroup
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