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tL -2i- co "The Socicty of Friends has a great tradition of spiritual ins service to hamanity; but the Zditor and many others are ceeply disturbed at tie extent to which anti-American and pro-Sovict propaganda has catered into ce 5 of its activities,. This is also true of a great body of American Christians who are cqually disturbed at similar activities within many of their social ores This one incident ef many is pin-pointed in the hope that Christians everywhere are will assert themselves and regain control of their saany organizations that promoting the Communist line." Inthe London FRIEND, August i4, 1653, we read of a conference of held in Berlin during the preceding month, Three Friends from the Sezvvice Cac ttee were present, mong cther things, the writer of the report said of the con- ferees, ‘They knew that they had much to learn from Communists," There is no The Service Committee clzims to uphold the well-xnown Quaker striving to reach unity and df not coercing the minority; but it nevertheless ¢ with a policy which it knows is abhorent to a large body of Friends, and it con- tinually advocates more and more government action which © coercion for larger numbers of our people. Is it not illogical to say that cne shocld not obey the military laws and regulations df one's couniry but, at che same advocate increasing the power og government to regulate and control the lives of our people in civilian relationships ? We cannot go on increasing the cost of govern- ment and enlarging the power and functions thereof without eventually bringing upon ourselves a totalitarian type of control to which we would have to be sub- servient if wa wished to preserve our lives. “The chief spokesmen of the Service Commitice have been uruing the recogn tien of Red China md her admissionto U. N. This appears again and again