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. ( -37- i) Another leaflet ina Service Committee Peace Packet" isa sharp venemous attack on President S ngman Rhee of South Korea. It accuses him of brutality, corruption, Yneificiency and claims that "his government is among the worst the world has ever known", «nother leaflet in a Service Committee "Peace Packet" attacks President Eisenhower for widening the war inthe Far East, This same leaflet condemns the Chinese Govenment on Formosa and lauds Communist China, . These leaflets show a common policy of strong approval for the Communist regimes in China, North Korea and Gautemala and strike out viciously against ar government, or anyone in it, who has in any way opposed them, Wedo not believe that the responsible people in the Service Committce approve of such propoganda but yet it goes on, not only in their name but.in the name of whole Society of Friends as well, Although Friends take the position that the rights of conscience are supreme, this pe: is nullified when A. F,S.C. intentionally, or otherwise, speaks for 7 The regular procedures, long established in the Religious Society of Fri do not control the policies of A, F.S.C. a uw th ae Running through the literature’sent at by ALF.S.C, is the oft re- peated theme that our country is inthe worng. I our country did not afford freedom to its citizens, A. F.S.C. would not be in existence. Little is said about the great good America docs or the attempt our goverament has usually made to be fuir and just in its international dealings. What is the remedy? A re-examination and re-orientation of the policy: and projects of the A.F.S.C, on the basis of: 1, What Monthly Mcetings believe it should do 2. How its activities can best be carried on to conform with the basic concept of worthiness and responsibility of the individual member to decide the course of his own conscience 3, How its activities can be channeled into these areas which will appeal as an aitlet for personal service by members of the Religious Socicty of Friends STATEMENT by the late C, MARSHALL TAYLOR In spite of the fact that we call our Society the Religious Society of Friends, the activities, both direct and indirect, fostered by the Service Committee have diverted our members from the pursuit of religious <tivities and supplanted them with purely social aims, The greatest charge that can be placed against the Service Comr ic that in the public's cye it is the Society of Friends and can speak for it, and no real attempt seems to be made by the Committee to avoid this ambizu- ity. By such action, the Committee is guilty of one of the oldest forms of crime: public deception, : One of the favorite methods used by the Committee to do. it ¢ is that pursued by the various institutes, held under its dusp