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C “lie i} even below, the level of the U.S.S.R. Yet, again and again, this is precisely what Committee spokesmen feel called upon to do. In our judgment, such activities are destroying the good name that multitudes of our Cuaker ancestors have bequeathed to us. One Service Committee speaker remembers how a reporter from the communist Daily Yorker followed the proceedinzs of one of the Institutes. There was evidence of much gles at the propaganda b develoned by several of the speakers. Many of the signers of this document believe that the continual extension of the power and functions of government will lead to the authoritarian state. Ve believe there should be less government, not more, and that following the Mz proclaimed so widely in Service Committee Institutes will lead to the loss of our Liberty, our self-government, our economic prosperity and cirectly to some form of authoritarian government hittle better than slavery. LITERATURE Eugene Lyons, Senior Editor of the Reader's Digest, has never been hostile to Friends. He has written recently one of the best biographies of former Presideat Herbert Hoover, Following the visit of six Cuakers to Rus wrote a piece for the National Review, September 22, 1956, call 1 in Scazrch of Co-existence. Speaking of the pamphict published by the Service this visit. one of his this visit, one of his ‘The pamphlet is as cold-blooded and cynical a document as has come to my attention in many a year, and lam something of a connoisscur of the erature of pro-Soviet apologetics. I searched its 9+ pages for a word of cam- passion for the victims of the brutal totalitarian state; a soupcon of sympathy for the millions steeped {as is eviduns