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: “~ ‘) might and main to rebuild its country and its way of life Do Friends wish to condemn the Christian regimes of Guatemala, of Chiang Kai-shek and Syngman Rhee and give enthusiastic approval of Commun: in these countries? Thotis what the Service Committee is doing in their name, not only in these pamphlets but in much other literature. Documentation such as the above could be continued at great length but these must suffice to demonstrate our contention that forces are at wor the Service Committee to pervert and destroy its usefulness as of Christian service. Much good pacifist material is available and ay Quaker Hterature on this and other testimonies of our Society can be used to mect all needs in this field. There is no excuse for continuing the circu of un-Christian, subversive and highly objectionable matter. One may well inquire just what is the purpose of the Service Committee in continuing to circulate so much anti- «merican pro-Communist literature. Tre cause of A4merican Cuakerism is not advanced by pushing books and literature suc as we have described nor by speakers who continually rank the United States as cqual with or far below Russia. In our opinion, the vast reservoir of gooc- will built by devoted Quakers of carlicr generations is being exhausted by these hho have turned the Religious Society of Friends into a left-wing, agitati roup. Have we so far lost faith in the appeal of the Gospel of Jesus Christ g B PY P We regard this as an appeal from God to Caesar. “ of our religion to redeem men, Who'will in turn change their own i we seem to be appealing to the police power of the state to do what we think re-bora men cannot do.