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- 34 - itself. It is self-directing., It has a "Head Office." It has a “policy. It assumes a paternalistic role in the Socicty of Friends in the United States, It finds it easy to speak for the Society of Friends and to overlook the views of the minority groups and individuals within the Socicty. ony Being one of those who shares some responsibility for present position of the American Friends Service Com tee, it is my fecling that time should be taken carefully to appraise its present activities. ite STATEMENT BY J. KENNEDY SINCLAIRE (Abbreviated) l. A mighty change appears to have taken place in the work eof the ALF.LS.C, Conceived as a means for expressing the Quaker Conscience, and perhaps the keeper of the public conscience. I quote from A,F.S,C. Annual Report for 1955: "While our activities change from time to time; as any one year's report will indicate, a basic and continuous, {f€ not easily articulated philosphy runs through the years of our history since the Committee's founding in 1917," ° "It is the faith that men are made for brotherhood and not for strife; for mutual understanding and respect, not for dislike and suspicion; for wholeness, not for division. It is the confidence that personal and col- lective well-being is dependent only in part upon physi- cal conditions, The issues of life are out of the hearst." (Page 3) Let us assume that as we read this superficially we can agree with all it says However, through these word there appears to be a stateme ntoof policy emerging concern- ing itself mainly with matters of conscience For examoble, it is supposed that the employees of A, F.S, "é, are better judges than others of causes of strife, misunderstand ins suspicion, dislike? Who is to determine when, where 2 in what degree personal and collective well-being requir a‘policy decision and action? What is "collective well- being?" Does it. pertain’to pensions, wages, religious beliefs, rents or what? na ce Coe