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ee eT ee ie i ae ce ni ie NMED Sete: ap: wree Wiwes ore -vas oan | [lat CS p= - Om | est A silent protest against nuclear testing and “A-homb warfare is being carried out acoss the nation and around the world by the American_Fricuds Service Committee (Quaker) it was announced here this week. 12 The unique protest called “A Vigil of Concern” takes. place at court houses, federal buildings and ja the crowd. ed urban areas with protesters quietly standing, passing s eut the following memorandum: ' “Fach nuclear test. by our country or another, adds to the air, the soil, the foods we eat, new poisons which will cause disease and death ._ “Each nuclear test, by our country or another | is 2 further step in a nuclear arms race now almost beyond control. . . As we stand in silence. our thouchts are tuned to the _ realities of our time—the anonymous deaths which will vesult from fallout; the Canger that nuclear war, started ‘ by accident or design, will destroy millions of lives the h, *.%0,000 vigils have been carried nts, oo, : . > a 4 threats to freedom from dictsiorships of the Left and Right: the misery ef- millions who lack ihe food and shelter our technology could provide. Our thoughts are turned also to the faith that. man has the capacity to mect these challenges with better answers than hydrogen bombs, and that he may yet turn his energies from destruction and use his new power, te enrich life rather than threaten it. .. ~ “If you share this concern, will you join us in the vig- il, or express your coneern in your own way to your Con- gressman, to Chairman Khrushchev and to other world leaders. If you do not share this concern, “will you " consider these questions: ? If you do rot help end it. who will? 3 If the race is not stopped now. when will it be a : Fd Officials of the Committee report that more than i" eut across the -conti-d ~~ New York Post Phe Washington Post and__ | Dimes Herald The Washington Datly News |. ‘Phe Evening Star New York Herald Tribune —. New York Journal-American _ New York Mirror New York Daily News The New York Times The Worker The New Leader The Well Street Jourma! ‘ The National Observer ——. Date 2s Ss Y= 31/62 "Muhammad Speaks Page 9. A