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{ - -25- ty We begged him not to do it but he continued, greatly aggravating the problem of the alcoholic worker, . COM UNIST MEETINGS In the spring of 1959, the Service Committee held an Institute at Dover, New Jersey. A Congregational minister in attendance reported that he heard the name of God mentioned only twice and then by two persons who cenied His existence. This atheism was not challenged on the part of the leaders of the conference nor by other conferess. The Institute was concerned with political and economic considerations and the only cvidence the minister saw of religious concern was two small sessions for meditation at which only seven persons out of sixty conferecs were present. The minister reported that left-wing thinkin. and discussion dominated the conference. Shortly after this conference, this same minister received an invitation to attend a meeting at a private home in one of the better residential sections of New York. He was unable to go but a Methodist minister of his acquaintance did attend, The latter reported that few of the small group of about twenty persons present at this meeting were introduced to others. The only speaker was a Cormmunist member of the Russian delegation to the United Nations. He was all smiles and suavity while he denounced the United States, distributed Soviet Russian cartoons showing our country as a bloody butcher interested only in squeezing the last drop of wealth from its own citizens as wellas from foreigners and spoke in the most glowing terms of the democracy, social welfare and pros- * perity existing in the Soviet Union,