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COPY . WAR DEPARTLENT : My Te De - (CIB) 7390 (6-29-42) ue G-2 WDC & Fourth Arny . : ° Presidio of San Francisco duly 8, 1942 Subject: AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COLMITTEE Summary of Iformations Recent activity of the AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COM<ITTEE hes made at advisable that a summary on subject organization be preparod for disseminas tion and that information available in other agencies be solicited. ‘The FRIENDS is a Quaker organization with headquarters in Phila- delphia, Pas, at 20 South 12th Street. Subject group, a section of the W RESISTER'S INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF INTERNATIONAL ANTI-MILITARISTS GROUPS, wes registered with the Secretary of State on November 9, 1939, as an orgean- Azation engaged in the solicitation and collection of contributions to be: ~ used for relief in belligerent countries. Committee organization is as follows: Chairman, RUFUS Li. JONES; Secretary, FE. RAYUOND| WILSON Executive Secretary, CLARENCE P, “PICKETT; Treasurer, WILLIAM 2.°FOGG. JONES is kmnowm to have made speeches before Pacifist groups, and WILSON, although publicly _eriticizing HITIER, has declared himself in favor of a negotiated peacee A " - pamphlet entitled "The Society of Friends in Regard to War" was issued in Cincinnati, Ohio, by subject group, which stated that war and Christianity are incompatible; therefore they, as Christians, cannot support wer. CLARENCE PICKETT is known to have mailed a form letter to the President in the name of the\POST WAR WORLD COUNCIL, the specific purpose of which was to urge ex- tension to Japanese aliens of the right to a hearing before civilian boards to attest their loyalty. One GEORGE KNOX'ROTH, a representative of the V AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE, AKSRICAN QUAKER GROUP, headquarters at .554 East Orange Grove Avenue, Pasadena, California, has also been an active ~ opponent of Japanese evacuation from the West Coast, : It is believed that there are 19 members of the FRIENDS in Mexico at present, in the vicinities of Torreon, Coahe, Durango, Dzo., and Vera Cruz, Veracruz, The boys are occupied in such work as draining swamps and " minor construction, while the girls are doing gratuitous recreational work for the Mexican people, the purpose of which is the improvement of inter- national relations between the United States and Mexico, In moat cases the boys have been granted permission by their draft boards to engage in this work for 6 months, It is reported that many members of the FRIENDS are engaged in similer free work among the migrating workers in the United States, Joo- 1234a- IP REGRADED UNCLASSIFIED | jie. ue ON 23 vee w6 - Gi AT cose BY COR USAINTA &0Ic C4 ; AUTH PARA I= és BOD520