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oe ie me we TE ee pee ee ee ry - me me eee ae SOI (Continued) 12 November 1954 AMERICAN FRIENDS SEXVICE COMM TTES . Pages Z dodging the draft and allitery aervice by residing in @ foreien country. It ° wes noted that nembers often oarried large excunts of Literature, indicating that AFSC oarried on a recruiting campaign for ite Yezican activities among young anoricana of military age. Sources believed that such advertising delayed end - ispeded the American war effort and provided a convenlent avenue of eacepe from militery service for young Apericans. | (B-z) ° " 4» An inforzant of known reliability advised that the Anerioan Friends Service Inatitute at Albright Collers, Readlogs, Pennsvivania held a meeting en- titled "Fellorship of Recone{liation” Day on 13 July 1946. Kezbers of the Fellow ship of Recenchliation were urged to attend this nesting. A special nesting was @cheduled with A. Js” fiete and EFayertRuatio ae the speakers. (fustin was’ sen- tenced to a three year tera in the Federal Penitentiary as a reeuit of his rouse el to ctsy the Seloctire Sarvice Ast). The final report of the Prison Service Cormittees revoaled that AYSC hed been active in aiding and rehabilitating por- eons sentenced to prisen in the United States, with particular attention toward persena who had been imprisoned as conscientious obsectora. The AFSC acted as a distributor for a panphist entitled Me, The Cffecders, by Arle Brooks. The preface of the pamzhlot indicetod that © Eroocs had been sentenced to prison on two separate occasicus a3 a conscientious obsectsr, once for refusing to reris—- ter for the draft and onee for sot having a dra:t card. The pacchlet was pub-- lished by the Social Industrial Section of the ATSC. A newspaper article ap- . peared in the Fhilazolrchia Incuirer on 2 June 1951 by George E. Sokolsky, assort- img that AFSC, tne Leading orranitation amcne the Quakers, had issued a pamphlet designed to encourage drericans to favor peace. (2-2) . Se The files of another agency of known reliabllity indicated that the AFSC has st various tines suprerted Socialists end pro~Cormunistss The AFSC held {tz ennval Institute of Interrstionz] Pelations at Hershey, Pennsylvania cn 7 9 @ Sey 1954. The rrocram of this inatitute wie entitled "Norld Foous on J. S. a” One of the sneakers was Derk Fedde, a pro-Com=cunist professor fren rhilecelphia, Pennsylvania. ‘No known Communists were observed at thie mesting and no Comminist activity, was reported. (8-2) é Only Information derived from Arny sources fe feoluded in thie summarys r . : : . ee ee ee Ee ee w. . * ——? | / " RESRADED UNCLASSIFIED Cle s pec 176 ~ BY COR USAINTA F vee AUTH PARA 1-603 ma O1G DODS200