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( 2d- ‘ 5) The Methodist minister attending this meeting, organized and sponsored by the Service Committee seemingly for the purpose of vilifying the United Siates and.lauding the Communist regime in Sovict Russia states that it had every appearance of a Communist cell meeting. The address of the Russian official occupicd the entire time and there was nothing else on the program. One of the signers of this paper wrote the following editorial published in Christian Economics December 29, 1959: . “COMMUNISM IN CHURCH AGENCIES" "ON NOVEMBER THE 21st, the Editor attended a mecting in New Yor City arranged by the American Friends Service Committee in its series 'The Guest for Peace."! One of the round-table groups was addressed by a Russian Communist, assisted by another Russian Communist who had a better command of English. The former read a paper, the central theme of which was that the Soviet government desired only to live in peace with all nations and would never think of interfering in the internal affairs of any other country, “The participants in the discussion consisted of three or four Friends, one anti-Communist stucent and a group of pr-Communists or starry-cyed idealists who seemed unable to distinguish between fair words and facts. "At the appropriate point in the discussion period, the Editor said, 'We have listened to a beautiful ideal but, unfortunately, Sovict action is just the réverse.' .Then he referred to being inSpain during the Civil War in the 30's when Russian military men were masterminding one side of that struggle. * “At this remark, a hubbub arose. Most of those present seemed cager to aS cormmend Soviet acticas and condemn the United States, They all tricd to sp