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( -12- i) in this account of conditions) in wretchedness and subject to routinized injustice; a syllable of sharp criticism of the despots, in vain. ' . the good name, prestige and vast reservoir of good wi Society of Friends and by the Service Committee itself in years eld ane protection to the Service Commitee, but it will not always Leo s a to kecp for us this preferred status, if we continue to step out of our vole as relicf organization into those of political and economic propaganda, One of the books being promoted by the Service Commitice is U.S.A. by Helen and Scott Nearing, A review of this book appearing: August 10, 1956, says, ‘'The analysis is Marxist in its essentials, and in those essentials is probably right. orld Var Iwas merely a pressed capitalist economics of the Yest. Th eternal problems of over- procuction and unemployment are now beginning to reappear, and, by 2 process ' which Nearing calls cancerous fascism, spread through the U.S. In public de bate, Nearing takes the side of the Soviet Union and belittles the United States. He is not an idealist who has made a few missteps. one of the most inveterate communist frontiers in the United States, His book opens with this sentence: ‘Within two short decades the United States has been trans- formed from its position as one of the half-a-dozen powers into the world power, sceking to establish econornic and military dornination over the five contincats and the seven seas, ' (Cur country was in position to do just that at the close of sforld Yar 6 but we made no move in that direction. We did the opposite. We demobilized